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Civil Engineering Vocab

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1. An arrangement of pipes - equipment - devices - tanks and structures for treating wastewater and industrial wastes. A water pollution control plant.






2. Branch or lateral sewers that collect wastewater from building sewers and service lines.






3. In landscape architecture - an essential sheet showing site boundaries and significant site features - used as a basis for subsequent plan development.






4. A large pipe to which a series of smaller pipes are connected. Also called a HEADER.






5. 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.






6. The natural elements with which landscape architects work - such as plant materials and the soil itself.






7. The linear or a real dimension over which a higher component transmits load to a lower component






8. The legal grant of right-of-use to an area of designated private property.






9. An opening or point of access in a building wastewater pipe system for rodding or snake operation.






10. A device made of pipe fittings used to prevent sewer gases escaping from the branch or lateral sewer from entering a building sewer.






11. A break in a lateral pipe somewhere between the sewer main and the building connection.






12. 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.






13. American Society for Testing and Materials






14. A sewer designed to carry both sanitary wastewaters and storm or surface water runoff.






15. 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.






16. A multinational organization of landscape architects whose purpose is the promotion of landscape design and planning.






17. In the United States - a certification of individuals entitled to use the term 'landscape architect' or to practice landscape architecture or both - by means of examination and required degree and experience criteria.






18. Downward movement of the soil or of a structure which it supports






19. 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.






20. A small box-like structure that contains valves used to regulate flows.






21. Regulations specifying the type of construction methods and materials that are allowable on a project.






22. 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






23. 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.






24. 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






25. 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






26. A legal means of protecting beautiful views and associated aesthetic quality along a site by restricting change in existing features without government approval.






27. 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.






28. 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.






29. Any method of determining the weight a compacted material is able to support without damage or displacement. Usually stated in pounds per square foot.






30. 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






31. 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






32. Masonry composed of irregularly shaped stones laid without regularity of coursing - but well bonded.






33. 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






34. A pipe or conduit that carries wastewater or drainage water. The term 'collection line' is often used also.






35. Rain and snow water accumulated in the earth's porous rock.






36. 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






37. 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.






38. A system of major sewers serving as transporting lines and not as local or lateral sewers.






39. A branch of biology dealing with the relationship between living things and their environment.






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.






41. The lowest point of the channel inside a pipe - conduit - or canal.






42. The pipe system for collecting and carrying water and watercarried wastes from domestic and industrial sources to a wastewater treatment plant.






43. A type of easement granting permission to a constructor or developer to build over a street or structure.






44. The science and art of design - planning - management and stewardship of the land. Landscape architecture involves natural and built elements - cultural and scientific knowledge - and concern for resource conservation to the end that the resulting en






45. The science and management of land - especially rural - agricultural land.






46. 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.






47. 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






48. A preliminary plan showing proposed ultimate site development. Master plans often comprise site work that must be executed in phases over a long time and are thus subject to drastic modification.






49. The pipeline extending from the water main to the building served or to the consumer's system.






50. One or a series of oneinch diameter holes through a manhole lid for purposes of venting dangerous gases found in sewers.