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Civil Engineering Vocab
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1. The upper surface of the zone of saturation of groundwater in an unconfined aquifer.
Water Table
Sewer
Housing and Urban Development - Department of (HUD)
Septic Tank
2. The pipeline extending from the water main to the building served or to the consumer's system.
Council of Landscape Architecture Registration Boards (CLARB)
Secondary Treatment
Storm Runoff
Service Pipe
3. A type of easement granting permission to a constructor or developer to build over a street or structure.
A S T M
site plan
Aquifer
air rights
4. A wastewater treatment process used to convert dissolved or suspended materials into a form more readily separated from the water being treated. Usually the process follows primary treatment by sedimentation. The process commonly is a type of biologi
conservation plan
Curb Stop
Secondary Treatment
Storm Water
5. Harmonious use of the land for more than one purpose; not necessarily the combination of uses that will yield the highest economic return - e.g. - a mix of residential and commercial developments in the same area.
drainage
planning
softscape
multiple use
6. Masonry composed of roughly shaped stones fitting approximately on level beds - well bonded and brought at vertical intervals to continuous level beds of courses.
Rubble - Coursed
contour
greenbelt
Weir
7. A chamber or well built at the curbline of a street to admit gutter flow to the storm water drainage system. Also see STORM WATER INLET and CATCH BASIN.
Acid Rain
Service Pipe
Vault
Curb inlet
8. Federal agency responsible for producing and managing many federally-funded public service programs - especially those affecting housing and public spaces.
greenbelt
Nonpotable
Housing and Urban Development - Department of (HUD)
Septic Tank
9. The amount of runoff that reaches the point of measurement within a relatively short period of time after the occurrence of a storm or other form of precipitation. Also called 'direct runoff.'
Storm Runoff
Baffle
environmental design professions
Manhole Bedding
10. The lay of the land - particularly its slope and drainage patterns; the science of drawing maps and charts or otherwise representing the surface features of a region or site - including its natural and man-made features.
Estimated Flow
Acidic
Grease Trap
topography
11. A chamber or well used with storm or combined sewers as a means of removing grit which might otherwise enter and be deposited in sewers. Also see STORM WATER INLET and CURB INLET.
topography
ecology
Catch Basin
agronomy
12. The running off of water from a land surface or subsurface - such as through sewers or natural means.
landscape contractor
Septic Tank
Supersaturated
drainage
13. Clarifier - Settling Tank. A tank or basin in which wastewater is held for a period of time during which the heavier solids settle to the bottom and the lighter materials float to the water surface.
Sedimentation Basin
open space
parkway
Combined Wastewater
14. An opening in pipes or sewers designed for rodding or working a snake into the pipe in either direction. Twoway cleanouts are most often found in building lateral pipes at or near a property line.
Two-Way Cleanout
Splash Pad
City Beautiful Movement
Artificial Groundwater Table
15. A septic tank or other holding tank which serves as a temporary wastewater storage reservoir for a Septic Tank Effluent Pump (STEP) system. See SEPTIC TANK.
Sediment
Interceptor
design
Collection Main
16. A professional society that represents landscape architects in the United States and Canada and seeks to better the practice and understanding of landscape architecture through education - research - state registration and other programs.
American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)
planned unit development (PUD)
Caisson
Gravity Flow
17. British thermal units; the quantity of thermal energy required to raise one pound of water at its maximum density - 1 degree F. One BTU is equivalent to .293 watt hours - or 252 calories. One kilowatt hour is equivalent to 3412 BTU Back Pressure (wat
Splash Pad
Chain of Custody
B T U
Surface Runoff
18. A receptacle designed to collect and retain grease and fatty substances usually found in kitchens or from similar wastes. It is installed in the drainage system between the kitchen or other point of production of the waste and the building wastewater
Grease Trap
Earth Shift
manipulation of space
Oxidation Ditch
19. A flat board or plate - deflector - guide or similar device constructed or placed in flowing water or slurry systems to cause more uniform flow velocities - to absorb energy - and to divert - guide - or agitate liquids (water - chemical solutions - s
Baffle
building codes
Housing and Urban Development - Department of (HUD)
Wastewater
20. The elevation of the invert (or bottom) of a pipeline - canal - culvert - or similar conduit. _ The inclination or slope of a pipeline - conduit - stream channel - or natural ground surface; usually expressed in terms of the ratio or percentage of nu
Two-Way Cleanout
Walers
landscape
Grade
21. A network of pipes - manholes - cleanouts - traps - siphons - lift stations and other structures used to collect all wastewater and wastewatercarried wastes of an area and transport them to a treatment plant or disposal system. The collection system
Acid Rain
Easement
Collection System
Potable Water
22. A manhole located at the upstream end of a sewer and having no inlet pipe. Also called a TERMINAL MANHOLE.
Bedding
Storm Sewer
air rights
Deadend Manhole
23. A U.S. government agency charged with administering vast areas of public land.
Earth Shift
Activated Sludge Process
Walers
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
24. Sewers are surcharged when the supply of water to be carried is greater than the capacity of the pipes to carry the flow. The surface of the wastewater in manholes rises above the top of the sewer pipe - and the sewer is under pressure or a head - ra
grade
Surcharge
conservation
Earth Shift
25. Installation of pumps to lift wastewater to a higher elevation in places where flat land would require excessively deep sewer trenches. Also used to raise wastewater from areas too low to drain into available collection lines. These stations may be e
Bearing Wall
Absorption
Datum Line
Pump Station
26. Sand - silt - gravel and rocks carried or washed into a collection system by infiltration water flows.
Roof Leader
Infiltrated Debris
Saturated Soil
ecology
27. A wall that supports any vertical load in addition to its own weight.
Bearing Wall
hardscape
Hydrostatic Pressure
Walers
28. Water that does not contain objectionable pollution - contamination - minerals - or infective agents and is considered satisfactory for drinking.
Soil Displacement
Potable Water
Handhole Trap
building (construction) permit
29. A 19th- and 20th-century planned community traditionally featuring careful mixes of housing - open space - commercial activity and recreation. Examples include Reston - Va. - and Columbia - Md. - in the United States - and Harlow and Stevenage in Gre
new town
Rubble - Ordinary
design
Wastewater
30. A sewer designed to carry both sanitary wastewaters and storm or surface water runoff.
Sewer
Combined Sewer
Collection System
easement
31. A sewer that discharges into a branch or other sewer and has no other common sewer tributary to it. Sometimes called a 'street sewer' because it collects wastewater from individual homes.
Hydrostatic Pressure
grade
view
Lateral Sewer
32. The pipe system for collecting and carrying water and watercarried wastes from domestic and industrial sources to a wastewater treatment plant.
Cross Braces
Wastewater Collection System
Subsidence
design
33. A record of each person involved in the handling and possession of a sample from the person who collected the sample to the person who analyzed the sample in the laboratory and to the person who witnessed disposal of the sample.
Chain of Custody
Lateral Break
Surface Runoff
Combined System
34. The linear or a real dimension over which a higher component transmits load to a lower component
Sediment
Clear Well
Balustrade
Bearing
35. A system of major sewers serving as transporting lines and not as local or lateral sewers.
Riprap
Groundwater
Trunk System
natural resources
36. A wall that resist horizontal forces applied in the plane of the wall.
Caisson
greenbelt
Shear Wall
historic preservation
37. Material used to provide a bedding or foundation for pipes or other underground structures. This material is of specified quality for desirable bedding or other characteristics and is often imported from a different location.
Select Bedding
Estimated Flow
Manhole Bedding
Absorption Capacity
38. The prepared and compacted base on which a manhole is constructed.
ground water
Manhole Bedding
Wastewater Facilities
Clear Well
39. In zoning - a housing or commercial development composed of individual units that are regulated as a whole.
planned unit development (PUD)
Check Valve
National Park Service (NPS)
Riprap
40. Elements added to a natural landscape - such as paving stones - gravel - walkways - irrigation systems - roads - retaining walls - sculpture - street amenities - fountains - and other mechanical features.
Wasteline Vent
hardscape
Bearing Wall
Wasteline Cleanout
41. A layer - usually of concrete or mortar - for providing continuous support to such items as bricks - slabs - pipes.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Bedding
Water Table
Lateral Break
42. Pertaining to groundwater - a well - or underground basin where the water is under a pressure greater than atmospheric and will rise above the level of its upper confining surface if given an opportunity to do so.
Storm Water
Artesian
Mail Line
Two-Way Cleanout
43. Shoring members placed across a trench to hold other horizontal and vertical shoring members in place.
Wasteline Vent
Artesian
Soil Pipe
Cross Braces
44. Opening in a sewer provided for the purpose of permitting operators or equipment to enter or leave a sewer. Sometimes called an 'access hole' or a 'maintenance hole.'
City Beautiful Movement
Equalizing Basin
Manhole
topography
45. The process of adding air to water. Air can be added to water by either passing air through water or passing water through air. In wastewater treatment - air is added to freshen wastewater and to keep solids in suspension. With mixtures of wastewater
Housing and Urban Development - Department of (HUD)
Handhole Trap
Trunk System
Aeration
46. The conversion of large solid particles of sludge into very fine particles which either dissolve or remain suspended in wastewater.
site plan
Bedding
Liquefaction
ground water
47. A multinational organization of landscape architects whose purpose is the promotion of landscape design and planning.
Sedimentation Basin
International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA)
Bearing Wall
landscape contractor
48. Load applied along or parallel to and concentric with the primary axis
Earth Shift
Seasonal Water Table
Axial Load
Wastewater Collection System
49. That part of the precipitation falling on a drainage area which does not escape as surface stream flow during a given period. It is the difference between total precipitation and total runoff during the period - and represents evaporation - transpira
Retention
Service Pipe
landscape architect
Sewer Main
50. Any designated use or activity on a piece of land.
Weir
national park
land use
Collection System