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Civil Engineering Vocab
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1. A wall that supports any vertical load in addition to its own weight.
Bearing Wall
Datum Line
Splash Pad
grade
2. A natural underground layer of porous - waterbearing materials (sand - gravel) usually capable of yielding a large amount or supply of water.
Capillary Action
Retention
Artificial Groundwater Table
Aquifer
3. 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.
Shear Wall
Stratification
Clear Well
Surcharge Manhole
4. A manhole located at the upstream end of a sewer and having no inlet pipe. Also called a TERMINAL MANHOLE.
Sedimentation
Runoff
Deadend Manhole
manipulation of space
5. A collection pipe to which building laterals are connected.
landscape
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
Estimated Flow
Collection Main
6. A large - public park - often highly scenic and isolated belonging to and operated by the federal government.
Interconnector
Outlet
national park
Water Table
7. Material used in backfilling of an excavation - selected for desirable compaction or other characteristics.
Select Backfill
Lift Station
Chain of Custody
Overflow Manhole
8. 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
softscape
Clear Well
landscape architect
Angle of Repose
9. A downspout or pipe installed to drain a roof gutter to a storm drain or other means of disposal.
new town
base plan
Roof Leader
Storm Collection System
10. 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.'
landscape contractor
Backfill
historic preservation
Manhole
11. Regulations specifying the type of construction methods and materials that are allowable on a project.
building codes
Sewer
Wastewater Collection System
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
12. A conservation group that maintains a revolving fund for quickly buying land that is in danger of being developed inappropriately or without regard to proper environmental considerations.
Backfill
environmental impact
land trust
Compaction Test
13. The property of a material or soil that permits considerable movement of water through it when it is saturated.
Trunk Sewer
Permeability
land use
Runoff
14. 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
Shear Wall
Subsidence
Surface Runoff
Day Tank
15. A plan for conserving or protecting various natural or manufactured resources. Such a plan is used as a management tool in making decisions regarding soil - water - vegetation - manufactured objects and other resources at a particular site.
conservation plan
Rubble - Random
Catch Basin
Potable Water
16. 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.
Surcharge
Chain of Custody
open space
environmental design professions
17. Sand - silt - gravel and rocks carried or washed into a collection system by infiltration water flows.
Infiltrated Debris
Storm Sewer
Absorption
Soil Pipe
18. The slope of a plot of land. Grading is the mechanical process of moving earth changing the degree of rise or descent of the land in order to establish good drainage and otherwise suit the intent of a landscape design.
natural resources
grade
Combined System
Sewage
19. Material used for backfilling a trench or excavation which was not the original material removed during excavation. This is a common practice where tests on the original material show it to have poor compactability or load capacity. Also called BORRO
Splash Pad
Main Sewer
Imported Backfill
Roof Leader
20. 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).
Earth Shift
Absorption
Trunk Sewer
hardscape
21. An agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture - primarily responsible for planning and overseeing the use of national forest lands by private - commercial and government users.
Forest Service
Sedimentation
Wasteline Cleanout
manipulation of space
22. 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.
Bearing Wall
base plan
Sedimentation Basin
Soil Pipe
23. A system of major sewers serving as transporting lines and not as local or lateral sewers.
landscape architect
agronomy
Trunk System
reclamation
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
Rubble - Ordinary
Surcharge
Outlet
Acid Rain
25. Record of an area's natural and man-made resources - including vegetation - animal life - geological characteristics and mankind's presence in such forms as housing - highways and even hazardous wastes.
zoning
Hydrostatic Pressure
environmental inventory
grade
26. The creative illustration - planning and specification of space for the greatest possible amount of harmony - utility - value and beauty.
Sewer Main
manipulation of space
design
Splash Pad
27. The movement of water through very small spaces due to molecular forces.
Capillary Action
Subsidence
Sewer Main
Laundering Weir
28. 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
Wasteline Vent
Weir
Manifold
parkway
29. A community's used water and water carried solids (including used water from industrial processes) that flow to a treatment plant. Storm water - surface water - and groundwater infiltration also may be included in the wastewater that enters a wastewa
Overflow Manhole
Wastewater
Trunk System
Chain of Custody
30. One or a series of oneinch diameter holes through a manhole lid for purposes of venting dangerous gases found in sewers.
A S T M
Sedimentation Basin
Manhole Vents
Sewer
31. The dropping or lowering of the ground surface as a result of removing excess water (overdraft or overpumping) from an aquifer. After excess water has been removed - the soil will settle - become compacted and the ground surface will drop and can cau
Seasonal Water Table
design
Subsidence
Service Pipe
32. A device made of pipe fittings used to prevent sewer gases escaping from the branch or lateral sewer from entering a building sewer.
Handhole Trap
Invert
landscape architecture registration
environmental design professions
33. An authorization issued by a government agency allowing construction of a project according to approved plans and specifications.
Outlet
building (construction) permit
Council of Landscape Architecture Registration Boards (CLARB)
Curb Stop
34. A strip of unspoiled - often treed - agricultural or other outlying land used to separate or ring urban areas.
site plan
contour
greenbelt
environmental inventory
35. A small box-like structure that contains valves used to regulate flows.
Saturated Soil
Vault
topography
Surcharge Manhole
36. The upper surface of the zone of saturation of groundwater in an unconfined aquifer.
Storm Sewer
Roof Leader
Runoff
Water Table
37. A multinational organization of landscape architects whose purpose is the promotion of landscape design and planning.
Manhole Bedding
International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA)
environmental impact
Splash Pad
38. 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.
topography
landscape architect
Overflow Manhole
Interceptor
39. Water that does not contain objectionable pollution - contamination - minerals - or infective agents and is considered satisfactory for drinking.
Baffle
base plan
Earth Shift
Potable Water
40. The running off of water from a land surface or subsurface - such as through sewers or natural means.
Select Backfill
Bearing
drainage
Acidic
41. A water treatment process in which solid particles settle out of the water being treated in a large clarifier or sedimentation basin.
Combined System
Sedimentation
land use
Earth Shift
42. A groundwater table that has seasonal changes in depth or elevation.
Aeration
planned unit development (PUD)
Seasonal Water Table
conservation plan
43. The science and management of land - especially rural - agricultural land.
Infiltrated Debris
Storm Collection System
agronomy
landscape architect
44. A legal means of protecting beautiful views and associated aesthetic quality along a site by restricting change in existing features without government approval.
Lift Station
design
Chain of Custody
scenic easement
45. A sewer designed to carry both sanitary wastewaters and storm or surface water runoff.
Seasonal Water Table
Combined System
Clear Well
Lift Station
46. A structure made of concrete or other durable material to protect bare soil from erosion by splashing or falling water.
Collection System
Splash Pad
Compaction
Soil Pipe
47. Branch or lateral sewers that collect wastewater from building sewers and service lines.
Mail Line
Selector
Groundwater
Chain of Custody
48. The prepared and compacted base on which a manhole is constructed.
Manhole Bedding
Select Bedding
ecology
Acid Rain
49. 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
Selector
Acid Rain
Vault
reclamation
50. Horizontal shoring members - usually square - rough cut timber - that are used to hold solid sheeting - braces or vertical shoring members in place. Also called STRINGERS.
Walers
Storm Collection System
Sedimentation
multiple use