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1. A branch of biology dealing with the relationship between living things and their environment.
ecology
Adhesion
Datum Line
Combined System
2. A rough guess of the amount of flow in a collection system. When greater accuracy is needed - flow could be computed using average or typical flow quantities. Even greater accuracy would result from metering or otherwise measuring the actual flow.
Compaction
Sedimentation Basin
Estimated Flow
new town
3. 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
Datum Line
Aeration
Angle Post
Activated Sludge Process
4. Soil that cannot absorb any more liquid. The interstices or void spaces in the soil are filled with water to the point at which runoff occurs.
Runoff
Artificial Groundwater Table
designed landscape
Saturated Soil
5. Railing support at landings or other breaks in the stairs. If an angle post projects beyond the bottom of the strings - the ornamental detail formed at the bottom of the post is called the drop.
Storm Collection System
environmental impact
building (construction) permit
Angle Post
6. 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
softscape
City Beautiful Movement
Wasteline Cleanout
Weir
7. A break in a lateral pipe somewhere between the sewer main and the building connection.
building codes
Lateral Break
Wastewater Collection System
Overflow Manhole
8. A type of easement granting permission to a constructor or developer to build over a street or structure.
air rights
Secondary Treatment
Compaction
Artesian
9. The running off of water from a land surface or subsurface - such as through sewers or natural means.
Invert
Elevation
Capillary Action
drainage
10. A trained builder or installer of landscapes - retained to implement the plans of landscape architects.
Subsidence
Terminal Manhole
landscape contractor
scenic easement
11. 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
Estimated Flow
Newel Post
Selector
Bearing Wall
12. An authorization issued by a government agency allowing construction of a project according to approved plans and specifications.
cost-benefit analysis
building (construction) permit
Stratification
Acidic
13. The used household water and watercarried solids that flow in sewers to a wastewater treatment plant. The preferred term is WASTEWATER.
Aquifer
topography
national park
Sewage
14. Sand - silt - gravel and rocks carried or washed into a collection system by infiltration water flows.
Infiltrated Debris
Terminal Manhole
Sedimentation Basin
Rubble - Ordinary
15. A groundwater table that has seasonal changes in depth or elevation.
open space
Retention
Seasonal Water Table
Check Valve
16. A material - other than aggregate - cementitious material or water - added in small quantities to the mix in order to produce some (desired) modifications - either to the properties of the mix or of the hardened product.
historic preservation
Lateral Sewer
Admixture
easement
17. A strip of unspoiled - often treed - agricultural or other outlying land used to separate or ring urban areas.
Combined Wastewater
greenbelt
environmental design professions
contour
18. 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.
Sewer Main
zoning
environmental impact
Earth Shift
19. A coordinating agency formed in 1961 for state boards that administer licensing exams and maintain records for landscape architects to practice.
Water Table
Storm Collection System
Walers
Council of Landscape Architecture Registration Boards (CLARB)
20. A type of wastewater or service connection pipe made of a low grade of cast iron. _ In plumbing - a pipe that carries the discharge of toilets or similar fixtures - with or without the discharges from other fixtures.
Wasteline Vent
topography
Retention
Soil Pipe
21. 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.
Permeability
Interconnector
Equalizing Basin
Soil Displacement
22. A site that might appear to be natural but has elements and features that were planned and specified by a landscape architect. Designed landscapes include Central Park in New York to the siting of buildings.
designed landscape
historic preservation
Gravity Flow
parkway
23. 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.
Seasonal Water Table
reclamation
national park
Curb inlet
24. 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
Absorption Capacity
Equalizing Basin
Two-Way Cleanout
Manifold
25. A large - public park - often highly scenic and isolated belonging to and operated by the federal government.
national park
Invert
Grease Trap
Cross Braces
26. Material used in backfilling of an excavation - selected for desirable compaction or other characteristics.
Select Backfill
Angle of Repose
Soil Displacement
Storm Collection System
27. The property of a material or soil that permits considerable movement of water through it when it is saturated.
Caisson
Absorption
Permeability
new town
28. Rain and snow water accumulated in the earth's porous rock.
American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)
ground water
Admixture
Balustrade
29. A sewer that receives wastewater from many tributary branches or sewers and serves a large territory and contributing population.
Rubble - Ordinary
Trunk Sewer
Weir
planning
30. 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
landscape
Collection System
Easement
Pump Station
31. 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.
landscape
Potable Water
Impermeable
Chain of Custody
32. A structure made of concrete or other durable material to protect bare soil from erosion by splashing or falling water.
Imported Backfill
Catch Basin
Splash Pad
American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)
33. 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
B T U
Outlet
grade
ecology
34. 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.
Trunk System
Imported Backfill
Interceptor
air rights
35. A device that admits surface waters to the storm water drainage system. Also see CURB INLET and CATCH BASIN.
Storm Water Inlet
Combined System
Storm Runoff
landscape contractor
36. The science and management of land - especially rural - agricultural land.
Lateral Sewer
Sewage
Sedimentation Basin
agronomy
37. Material used to fill in a trench or excavation
Combined Wastewater
Angle of Repose
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
Backfill
38. 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.
Gravity Flow
Storm Runoff
contour
land trust
39. 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.
planned unit development (PUD)
Imported Backfill
Supersaturated
Liquefaction
40. The force that resists the separation of two bodies in contact.
Wastewater
Chain of Custody
Adhesion
Stratification
41. A reservoir for the storage of filtered water of sufficient capacity to prevent the need to vary the filtration rate with variations in demand. Also used to provide chlorine contact time for disinfection.
Clear Well
landscape architect
Manhole Vents
Artesian
42. The height to which something is elevated - such as the height above sea level.
Elevation
Manhole Bedding
Hydrostatic Pressure
historic preservation
43. A U.S. government agency charged with administering vast areas of public land.
landscape contractor
natural resources
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
Artificial Groundwater Table
44. This landscape architecture specialization has evolved to encompass maintenance of a site in its present condition; conservation of a site as part of a larger area of historic importance; restoration of a site to a given date or quality; renovation o
historic preservation
Manifold
zoning
Potable Water
45. Solid material settled from suspension in a liquid.
environmental design professions
Compaction
agronomy
Sediment
46. The conversion of large solid particles of sludge into very fine particles which either dissolve or remain suspended in wastewater.
softscape
Main Sewer
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
Liquefaction
47. In landscape architecture - a study of the potential cost of site purchase - demolition and improvement in comparison to the income or other benefit to be derived from site development.
Capillary Action
Oxidation Ditch
cost-benefit analysis
Potable Water
48. A relatively clear or forested area left untouched in or near a city. It may be active open space - such as a baseball field - or passive open space - such as an area of natural woodland.
Grease Trap
Wasteline Vent
Two-Way Cleanout
open space
49. Narrowly defined - the amount of countryside and/or city that can be taken in at a glance. Also - an area of land or water taken in the aggregate.
CADD
landscape
hardscape
Service Pipe
50. 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
Handhole Trap
Selector
Surcharge
Backfill
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