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Civil Engineering Vocab
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1. A natural underground layer of porous - waterbearing materials (sand - gravel) usually capable of yielding a large amount or supply of water.
Aquifer
Invert
Clear Well
Septic Tank
2. A manhole which fills and allows raw wastewater to flow out onto the street or ground.
Trunk Sewer
Acid Rain
ground water
Overflow Manhole
3. A water treatment process in which solid particles settle out of the water being treated in a large clarifier or sedimentation basin.
environmental impact
Clear Well
Check Valve
Sedimentation
4. A system of major sewers serving as transporting lines and not as local or lateral sewers.
Collection Main
Trunk System
ground water
Estimated Flow
5. A break in a lateral pipe somewhere between the sewer main and the building connection.
Oxidation Ditch
Lateral Break
Collection System
Housing and Urban Development - Department of (HUD)
6. Downstream opening or discharge end of a pipe - culvert - or canal.
air rights
Manhole Bedding
Groundwater
Outlet
7. 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
Rubble - Random
National Park Service (NPS)
Combined System
Water Table
8. The gathering of a gas - liquid - or dissolved substance on the surface or interface zone of another material. Advanced Waste Treatment (water) n Any process of water renovation that upgrades treated wastewater to meet specific reuse requirements. Ma
natural resources
Admixture
Bearing Wall
Adsorption
9. The pipes - conduits - structures - equipment - and processes required to collect - convey - and treat domestic and industrial wastes - and dispose of the effluent and sludge.
contour
Surcharge
drainage
Wastewater Facilities
10. 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.
Capillary Action
Curb inlet
easement
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
11. The excess water running off from the surface of a drainage area during and immediately after a period of rain. See STORM RUNOFF.
topography
City Beautiful Movement
Storm Water
planned unit development (PUD)
12. A separate pipe - conduit or open channel (sewer) that carries runoff from storms - surface drainage - and street wash - but does not include domestic and industrial wastes. Storm sewers are often the recipients of hazardous or toxic substances due t
Check Valve
landscape contractor
Storm Sewer
Day Tank
13. A device that admits surface waters to the storm water drainage system. Also see CURB INLET and CATCH BASIN.
Handhole Trap
Storm Water Inlet
Aquifer
Check Valve
14. A manhole located at the upstream end of a sewer and having no inlet pipe. Also called a DEADEND MANHOLE.
Terminal Manhole
new town
Activated Sludge Process
conservation plan
15. 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
manipulation of space
Soil Displacement
Settlement
Combined Sewer
16. The linear or a real dimension over which a higher component transmits load to a lower component
planned unit development (PUD)
Saturated Soil
Bearing
master plan
17. 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.'
drainage
Storm Runoff
A S T M
scenic easement
18. A structure made of concrete or other durable material to protect bare soil from erosion by splashing or falling water.
Secondary Treatment
Deadend Manhole
Seasonal Water Table
Splash Pad
19. A special valve with a hinged disc or flap that opens in the direction of normal flow and is forced shut when flows attempt to go in the reverse or opposite direction of normal flows.
Lateral Sewer
Manhole Vents
Check Valve
Housing and Urban Development - Department of (HUD)
20. In landscape architecture - the organization of areas of land for specific aesthetic or functional purposes. This can range from creating small backyard patios to huge urban plazas.
Storm Collection System
manipulation of space
Potable Water
International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA)
21. OE The pressure at a specific elevation exerted by a body of water at rest - or _ In the case of groundwater - the pressure at a specific elevation due to the weight of water at higher levels in the same zone of saturation.
Two-Way Cleanout
Manhole Bedding
Aquifer
Hydrostatic Pressure
22. Masonry composed of irregularly shaped stones laid without regularity of coursing - but well bonded.
Deadend Manhole
Aeration
Rubble - Ordinary
land use
23. The height to which something is elevated - such as the height above sea level.
Elevation
base plan
site plan
Cross Braces
24. Precipitation which has been rendered (made) acidic by airborne pollutants.
Cistern
Housing and Urban Development - Department of (HUD)
B T U
Acid Rain
25. 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.
planning
Two-Way Cleanout
environmental inventory
Laundering Weir
26. Shoring members placed across a trench to hold other horizontal and vertical shoring members in place.
Cross Braces
Wastewater Facilities
natural resources
Artesian
27. A pipe or conduit (sewer) intended to carry wastewater or waterborne wastes from homes - businesses - and industries to the POTW (Publicly Owned Treatment Works). Storm water runoff or unpolluted water should be collected and transported in a separat
Artesian
Sanitary Sewer
Storm Water Inlet
Easement
28. 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.'
Manhole
Absorption
Supersaturated
Baluster
29. Downward movement of the soil or of a structure which it supports
Trunk Sewer
Settlement
Subsidence
Surcharge Manhole
30. 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.
Combined Sewer
Liquefaction
Equalizing Basin
Compaction
31. The lowest point of the channel inside a pipe - conduit - or canal.
Invert
land trust
Admixture
Adhesion
32. The used household water and watercarried solids that flow in sewers to a wastewater treatment plant. The preferred term is WASTEWATER.
International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA)
Balustrade
Vault
Sewage
33. Federal agency responsible for producing and managing many federally-funded public service programs - especially those affecting housing and public spaces.
Interconnector
Splash Pad
Earth Shift
Housing and Urban Development - Department of (HUD)
34. Legal right to use the property of others for a specific purpose. For example - a utility company may have a fivefoot easement along the property line of a home. This gives the utility the legal right to install and maintain a sewer line within the e
environmental design professions
Adhesion
Rubble - Random
Easement
35. The creative illustration - planning and specification of space for the greatest possible amount of harmony - utility - value and beauty.
Cross Braces
Terminal Manhole
design
Day Tank
36. An unstable condition of a solution (water) in which the solution contains a substance at a concentration greater than the saturation concentration for the substance.
Bearing Wall
Supersaturated
Rubble - Random
Hydrostatic Pressure
37. 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.
planning
landscape architect
Impermeable
Curb Stop
38. Load applied along or parallel to and concentric with the primary axis
Rubble - Random
Artesian
Axial Load
base plan
39. A type of easement granting permission to a constructor or developer to build over a street or structure.
landscape
designed landscape
air rights
open space
40. Not easily penetrated. The property of a material or soil that does not allow - or allows only with great difficulty - the movement or passage of water.
Main Sewer
Combined Sewer
Wasteline Vent
Impermeable
41. A downspout or pipe installed to drain a roof gutter to a storm drain or other means of disposal.
land trust
Roof Leader
Nonpotable
Baffle
42. The movement or dislocation of underground soil or structure. Earth shift is usually caused by external forces such as surface loads - slides - stresses or nearby construction - water movements or seismic forces.
Wasteline Cleanout
Earth Shift
Shear Wall
Secondary Treatment
43. A strip of unspoiled - often treed - agricultural or other outlying land used to separate or ring urban areas.
Riprap
Surcharge Manhole
greenbelt
Curb inlet
44. A professional who designs - plans - and manages outdoor spaces ranging from entire ecosystems to residential sites and whose media include natural and built elements; also referred to as a designer - planner - consultant. Not to be confused with lan
Storm Water Inlet
landscape architect
Caisson
Terminal Manhole
45. A sewer installed to connect two separate sewers. If one sewer becomes blocked - wastewater can back up and flow through the interconnector to the other sewer.
Trunk System
Combined Wastewater
Wastewater
Interconnector
46. Broken stones - boulders - or other materials placed compactly or irregularly on levees or dikes for the protection of earth surfaces against the erosive action of waves.
land use
Wastewater
Saturated Soil
Riprap
47. The man-made creation of or alterations to a specific area - including its natural resources. This is in contrast to the 'natural environment.'
Baluster
built environment
Council of Landscape Architecture Registration Boards (CLARB)
B T U
48. The force that resists the separation of two bodies in contact.
Angle Post
Lift Station
Adhesion
CADD
49. 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.
Groundwater
CADD
Stratification
Surcharge Manhole
50. Solid material settled from suspension in a liquid.
Storm Sewer
Sanitary Sewer
Elevation
Sediment