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Civil Engineering Vocab
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1. Tamping or rolling of a material to achieve a surface or density that is able to support predicted loads.
Wasteline Cleanout
Adsorption
parkway
Compaction
2. The linear or a real dimension over which a higher component transmits load to a lower component
Artificial Groundwater Table
Combined Wastewater
Bearing
Septic Tank
3. 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.
Manhole
Aeration
scenic easement
Artesian
4. The change to an area's natural resources - including animal and plant life - resulting from use by man. Some projects may require conducting of an 'environmental impact study' before development can proceed.
environmental inventory
environmental impact
Permeability
Shear Wall
5. Movement of soil from one place to another. Generally accompanies SILTING of a sewer system. Where infiltration is taking place and silt is carried into a sewer system - such silt or soil is removed from the ground around the sewer pipe and the resul
Storm Water Inlet
Soil Displacement
Mail Line
Oxidation Ditch
6. A manhole located at the upstream end of a sewer and having no inlet pipe. Also called a DEADEND MANHOLE.
open space
Terminal Manhole
reclamation
Collection System
7. A U.S. government agency responsible for developing and enforcing regulations that guide the use of land and natural resources.
Oxidation Ditch
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
topography
zoning
8. The force that resists the separation of two bodies in contact.
contour
Adhesion
building (construction) permit
Liquefaction
9. A manhole which fills and allows raw wastewater to flow out onto the street or ground.
Trunk System
land trust
Wasteline Cleanout
Overflow Manhole
10. 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.
natural resources
open space
landscape architecture
hardscape
11. A wastewater pumping station that lifts the wastewater to a higher elevation when continuing the sewer at reasonable slopes would involve excessive depths of trench. Also - an installation of pumps that raise wastewater from areas too low to drain in
Acid Rain
site plan
air rights
Lift Station
12. A holding basin in which variations in flow and composition of a liquid are averaged. Such basins are used to provide a flow of reasonably uniform volume and composition to a treatment unit. Also called a balancing reservoir.
site plan
Riprap
Equalizing Basin
conservation
13. The conversion of large solid particles of sludge into very fine particles which either dissolve or remain suspended in wastewater.
Retention
Artificial Groundwater Table
Liquefaction
Invert
14. A layer - usually of concrete or mortar - for providing continuous support to such items as bricks - slabs - pipes.
Backfill
Settlement
Bedding
Pump Station
15. 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.
Mail Line
Select Bedding
Oxidation Ditch
Soil Displacement
16. A collection pipe to which building laterals are connected.
Cistern
Collection System
Collection Main
designed landscape
17. An agency of the U.S. Department of the Interior charged with the planning and administration of all parks and monuments in the federal park system. The NPS is often referred to as the largest single employer of landscape architects in the United Sta
Handhole Trap
easement
Lateral Sewer
National Park Service (NPS)
18. The man-made creation of or alterations to a specific area - including its natural resources. This is in contrast to the 'natural environment.'
Shear Wall
built environment
site plan
Artificial Groundwater Table
19. The formation of separate layers (of temperature - plant - or animal life) in a lake or reservoir. Each layer has similar characteristics such as all water in the layer has the same temperature. Also see THERMAL STRATIFICATION.
Adsorption
Stratification
base plan
Splash Pad
20. A structure or chamber which is usually sunk or lowered by digging from the inside. Used to gain access to the bottom of a stream or other body of water.
Hydrostatic Pressure
Groundwater
Caisson
Cistern
21. Regulations specifying the type of construction methods and materials that are allowable on a project.
Axial Load
Wastewater
Imported Backfill
building codes
22. Precipitation which has been rendered (made) acidic by airborne pollutants.
Aeration
Acid Rain
Terminal Manhole
Cross Braces
23. That part of rain or other precipitation that runs off the surface of a drainage area and does not enter the soil or the sewer system as inflow.
Supersaturated
Runoff
Compaction Test
design
24. The natural elements with which landscape architects work - such as plant materials and the soil itself.
Collection System
softscape
Soil Pipe
Wasteline Vent
25. The precipitation that cannot be absorbed by the soil and flows across the surface by gravity. The water that reaches a stream by traveling over the soil surface or falls directly into the stream channels - including not only the large permanent stre
Surface Runoff
Equalizing Basin
Storm Water Inlet
Select Backfill
26. The amount of liquid which a solid material can absorb. Sand - as an example - can hold approximately onethird of its volume in water - or three cubic feet of dry sand can contain one cubic foot of water. A denser soil - such as clay - can hold much
B T U
air rights
Absorption Capacity
Rubble - Random
27. Any method of determining the weight a compacted material is able to support without damage or displacement. Usually stated in pounds per square foot.
Sewer
Settlement
Newel Post
Compaction Test
28. Branch or lateral sewers that collect wastewater from building sewers and service lines.
conservation plan
Mail Line
zoning
Compaction
29. 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
Retention
conservation plan
Secondary Treatment
landscape architect
30. 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
Sewer
Settlement
planned unit development (PUD)
Grease Trap
31. The condition of water or soil which contains a sufficient amount of acid substances to lower the pH below 7.0.
easement
Impermeable
Manhole Vents
Acidic
32. A downspout or pipe installed to drain a roof gutter to a storm drain or other means of disposal.
Settlement
Roof Leader
American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)
Storm Collection System
33. The form of the land. Contour lines are map lines connecting points of the same ground elevation and are used to depict and measure slope and drainage. Spot elevations are points of a specific elevation.
landscape architecture
A S T M
Runoff
contour
34. A legal means of protecting beautiful views and associated aesthetic quality along a site by restricting change in existing features without government approval.
view
open space
Newel Post
scenic easement
35. 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.
Retention
Curb inlet
Housing and Urban Development - Department of (HUD)
Grease Trap
36. The oxidation ditch is a modified form of the activated sludge process. The ditch consists of two channels placed side by side and connected at the ends to produce one continuous loop of wastewater flow and a brush rotator assembly placed across the
Runoff
Catch Basin
Oxidation Ditch
Permeability
37. The taking in or soaking up of one substance into the body of another by molecular or chemical action (as tree roots absorb dissolved nutrients in the soil).
Absorption
ecology
Baffle
site plan
38. Any attempt to restore to beneficial use land that has lost its fertility and stability; most often applies to mining reclamation - such as the restoration of strip mines and quarries.
Walers
view
Main Sewer
reclamation
39. The creative illustration - planning and specification of space for the greatest possible amount of harmony - utility - value and beauty.
Aeration
parkway
design
Stratification
40. The protection - improvement and use of natural resources according to principles that will assure the highest economic or social benefits for people and the environment now and in the future.
conservation
National Park Service (NPS)
Outlet
Supersaturated
41. A manhole in which the rate of the water entering is greater than the capacity of the outlet under gravity flow conditions. When the water in the manhole rises above the top of the outlet pipe - the manhole is said to be 'surcharged.'
Surcharge Manhole
Acid Rain
Potable Water
landscape
42. A popular social concern of the late nineteenth and early 20th centuries aimed at improving the appearance of urban areas through better planning and the addition of formal - romanticized public spaces and gardens.
Gravity Flow
Walers
City Beautiful Movement
Wastewater Treatment Plant
43. A multinational organization of landscape architects whose purpose is the promotion of landscape design and planning.
International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA)
Secondary Treatment
multiple use
Artesian
44. Any designated use or activity on a piece of land.
Deadend Manhole
land use
Grade
base plan
45. The illustration and description of problem-statements and large-scale design solutions that affect extensive areas of land; the anticipation of problems that will be encountered as human use and development of land continues.
Wastewater Facilities
planning
land use
Absorption Capacity
46. A wall or plate placed in an open channel and used to measure the flow of water. The depth of the flow over the weir can be used to calculate the flow rate - or a chart or conversion table may be used to convert depth to flow. A wall or obstruction u
Potable Water
multiple use
Weir
Outlet
47. A break in a lateral pipe somewhere between the sewer main and the building connection.
Terminal Manhole
Lateral Break
Storm Water
drainage
48. A reactor or basin in which baffles or other devices create a series of compartments. The environment and the resulting microbial population within each compartment can be controlled to some extent by the operator. The environmental conditions (food
Newel Post
Rubble - Ordinary
Selector
Subsidence
49. Downward movement of the soil or of a structure which it supports
Select Backfill
Settlement
land use
Collection System
50. The movement of water through very small spaces due to molecular forces.
Storm Collection System
landscape architecture registration
Capillary Action
softscape