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Civil Engineering Vocab
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1. 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
Sewage
site plan
building codes
2. 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.
landscape
Impermeable
Easement
Seasonal Water Table
3. 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
National Park Service (NPS)
Retention
Easement
Overflow Manhole
4. 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
Water Table
City Beautiful Movement
Aeration
Trunk System
5. Narrowly defined - an extended view or prospect from a site which - many times - is as important as or more important than the site itself.
view
Compaction Test
Collection System
Wastewater Facilities
6. 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.
designed landscape
Balustrade
Absorption
Stratification
7. 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.
Acid Rain
Storm Water
Saturated Soil
ecology
8. 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
Pump Station
Secondary Treatment
Walers
International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA)
9. 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.
Shear Wall
national park
Angle Post
Surface Runoff
10. 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
open space
Storm Sewer
Laundering Weir
landscape architecture
11. Acronym for 'Computer Aided (i.e. - Assisted) Design and Drafting -' a digital design process in which landscape architects use computers to help produce precise drawings and details for the construction of a project.
agronomy
CADD
Handhole Trap
Combined Wastewater
12. 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.
Grease Trap
Sedimentation Basin
Compaction Test
Lateral Cleanout
13. The pipes - conduits - structures - equipment - and processes required to collect - convey - and treat domestic and industrial wastes - and dispose of the effluent and sludge.
Septic Tank
Wastewater Facilities
Manifold
Baffle
14. A sewer line that receives wastewater from many tributary branches and sewer lines and serves as an outlet for a large territory or is used to feed an intercepting sewer.
Baluster
Adsorption
Main Sewer
American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)
15. A water service shutoff valve located in a water service pipe near the curb and between the water main and the building. This valve is usually operated by a wrench or valve key and is used to start or stop flows in the water service line to a buildin
Curb Stop
Equalizing Basin
Cross Braces
land trust
16. 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.
environmental inventory
Runoff
landscape
Equalizing Basin
17. The used household water and watercarried solids that flow in sewers to a wastewater treatment plant. The preferred term is WASTEWATER.
cost-benefit analysis
Chain of Custody
Lateral Sewer
Sewage
18. 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
Lift Station
Surcharge
Septic Tank
Newel Post
19. 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.
Backfill
cost-benefit analysis
Rubble - Random
Sewage
20. A sewer that receives wastewater from many tributary branches or sewers and serves a large territory and contributing population.
Trunk Sewer
contour
Imported Backfill
Manifold
21. A small box-like structure that contains valves used to regulate flows.
Newel Post
Earth Shift
Vault
Artificial Groundwater Table
22. A manhole located at the upstream end of a sewer and having no inlet pipe. Also called a DEADEND MANHOLE.
landscape
Trunk Sewer
Terminal Manhole
scenic easement
23. 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
natural resources
Two-Way Cleanout
parkway
Surcharge
24. A type of easement granting permission to a constructor or developer to build over a street or structure.
Housing and Urban Development - Department of (HUD)
grade
Combined System
air rights
25. 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.
Gravity Flow
Trunk Sewer
open space
contour
26. The property of a material or soil that permits considerable movement of water through it when it is saturated.
Permeability
Potable Water
Lateral Break
Groundwater
27. A wall that resist horizontal forces applied in the plane of the wall.
Angle of Repose
Shear Wall
Baffle
National Park Service (NPS)
28. A small tank (usually covered) or a storage facility used to store water for a home or farm. Often used to store rainwater.
Cross Braces
conservation
Cistern
greenbelt
29. 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
Wasteline Vent
Storm Sewer
Surface Runoff
Collection System
30. The legal grant of right-of-use to an area of designated private property.
Day Tank
greenbelt
site plan
easement
31. 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
grade
Adsorption
Surcharge Manhole
building codes
32. A chamber or well used with storm or combined sewers as a means of removing grit which might otherwise enter and be deposited in sewers. Also see STORM WATER INLET and CURB INLET.
softscape
zoning
Catch Basin
new town
33. The upper surface of the zone of saturation of groundwater in an unconfined aquifer.
conservation plan
Water Table
Earth Shift
Easement
34. Shoring members placed across a trench to hold other horizontal and vertical shoring members in place.
ecology
Wastewater Treatment Plant
Cross Braces
Secondary Treatment
35. 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).
Hydrostatic Pressure
national park
Absorption
Main Sewer
36. Masonry composed of roughly shaped stones - well bonded and brought at irregular intervals vertically to discontinuous but approximately level beds or courses.
scenic easement
Riprap
Rubble - Random
Sedimentation
37. The conversion of large solid particles of sludge into very fine particles which either dissolve or remain suspended in wastewater.
Liquefaction
Bearing Wall
Handhole Trap
Absorption Capacity
38. In landscape architecture - an essential sheet showing site boundaries and significant site features - used as a basis for subsequent plan development.
Compaction Test
Storm Collection System
Angle Post
base plan
39. A system of major sewers serving as transporting lines and not as local or lateral sewers.
Absorption Capacity
Trunk System
zoning
Collection System
40. 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
air rights
historic preservation
Wasteline Cleanout
41. 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.
Artesian
Sediment
Equalizing Basin
Riprap
42. A system of gutters - catch basins - yard drains - culverts and pipes for the purpose of conducting storm waters from an area - but intended to exclude domestic and industrial wastes.
American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)
Combined Wastewater
A S T M
Storm Collection System
43. The science and management of land - especially rural - agricultural land.
Service Pipe
Main Sewer
agronomy
planning
44. 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.
Estimated Flow
A S T M
Splash Pad
agronomy
45. American Society for Testing and Materials
Walers
contour
A S T M
Gravity Flow
46. A sewer that discharges into a branch or other sewer and has no other common sewer tributary to it. Sometimes called a 'street sewer' because it collects wastewater from individual homes.
Cross Braces
Lateral Sewer
Retention
Council of Landscape Architecture Registration Boards (CLARB)
47. 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.
Sewage
Acid Rain
Interconnector
Rubble - Ordinary
48. A manhole located at the upstream end of a sewer and having no inlet pipe. Also called a TERMINAL MANHOLE.
Interceptor
Shear Wall
Catch Basin
Deadend Manhole
49. Vertical member supporting the railing.
Baluster
Elevation
Saturated Soil
Roof Leader
50. 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
Wastewater
CADD
Absorption Capacity
Absorption
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