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Civil Engineering Vocab
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1. The pipeline extending from the water main to the building served or to the consumer's system.
Curb inlet
hardscape
Service Pipe
Runoff
2. 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
Angle Post
Permeability
Absorption Capacity
Easement
3. Masonry composed of roughly shaped stones fitting approximately on level beds - well bonded and brought at vertical intervals to continuous level beds of courses.
Rubble - Coursed
Baluster
Outlet
Pump Station
4. A multinational organization of landscape architects whose purpose is the promotion of landscape design and planning.
Splash Pad
multiple use
topography
International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA)
5. The science and management of land - especially rural - agricultural land.
drainage
Compaction
agronomy
Catch Basin
6. The excess water running off from the surface of a drainage area during and immediately after a period of rain. See STORM RUNOFF.
Elevation
Storm Sewer
national park
Storm Water
7. 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.
Sewer
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
hardscape
manipulation of space
8. Regulations specifying the type of construction methods and materials that are allowable on a project.
Sediment
building codes
Bedding
Imported Backfill
9. The creative illustration - planning and specification of space for the greatest possible amount of harmony - utility - value and beauty.
Combined Wastewater
Day Tank
design
drainage
10. 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.
Terminal Manhole
Impermeable
Surcharge Manhole
Lateral Sewer
11. A U.S. government agency charged with administering vast areas of public land.
Surcharge Manhole
Surface Runoff
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
Select Backfill
12. A large pipe to which a series of smaller pipes are connected. Also called a HEADER.
Combined Wastewater
Manifold
contour
land use
13. 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.
reclamation
Main Sewer
landscape contractor
landscape architect
14. A pipe or conduit that carries wastewater or drainage water. The term 'collection line' is often used also.
Sewer
Overflow Manhole
Elevation
Potable Water
15. A collection pipe to which building laterals are connected.
Invert
Manhole Vents
Sanitary Sewer
Collection Main
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.
Runoff
Chain of Custody
Impermeable
Water Table
17. Tamping or rolling of a material to achieve a surface or density that is able to support predicted loads.
B T U
Compaction
Subsidence
Acid Rain
18. 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.
national park
contour
Riprap
new town
19. The pipe system for collecting and carrying water and watercarried wastes from domestic and industrial sources to a wastewater treatment plant.
Surcharge Manhole
Laundering Weir
Wastewater Collection System
Wasteline Vent
20. The elements of supply inherent to an area that can be used to satisfy human needs - including air - soil - water - native vegetation - minerals and wildlife.
Manhole Bedding
Bedding
natural resources
Manifold
21. In zoning - a housing or commercial development composed of individual units that are regulated as a whole.
Baluster
planned unit development (PUD)
City Beautiful Movement
site plan
22. 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
Secondary Treatment
Surface Runoff
Balustrade
building codes
23. American Society for Testing and Materials
site plan
Cistern
Oxidation Ditch
A S T M
24. Sand - silt - gravel and rocks carried or washed into a collection system by infiltration water flows.
Infiltrated Debris
landscape architecture
Retention
Housing and Urban Development - Department of (HUD)
25. 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.
easement
Supersaturated
Sediment
Manhole
26. An opening or point of access in a building wastewater pipe system for rodding or snake operation.
Datum Line
Wasteline Cleanout
Admixture
Absorption
27. The protection - improvement and use of natural resources according to principles that will assure the highest economic or social benefits for people and the environment now and in the future.
Wastewater Treatment Plant
Main Sewer
National Park Service (NPS)
conservation
28. A coordinating agency formed in 1961 for state boards that administer licensing exams and maintain records for landscape architects to practice.
Council of Landscape Architecture Registration Boards (CLARB)
Bearing Wall
Stratification
Permeability
29. 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.
ecology
Walers
Backfill
Retention
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
Combined Sewer
Datum Line
Collection System
cost-benefit analysis
31. 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.
Curb Stop
Earth Shift
building codes
Artesian
32. Branch or lateral sewers that collect wastewater from building sewers and service lines.
Adhesion
Mail Line
Baffle
Absorption Capacity
33. A legal form of land-use control and building regulations usually exercised by a municipal authority; usually involves setting aside of distinct land areas for specific purposes - such as commercial - educational or residential development.
Artesian
Adsorption
Sewer
zoning
34. The legal grant of right-of-use to an area of designated private property.
Selector
easement
Artesian
Manifold
35. 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
land use
planned unit development (PUD)
Rubble - Coursed
Adsorption
36. Vertical member supporting the railing.
Handhole Trap
open space
Baluster
Sediment
37. A natural underground layer of porous - waterbearing materials (sand - gravel) usually capable of yielding a large amount or supply of water.
Aquifer
Wasteline Cleanout
Newel Post
land trust
38. A break in a lateral pipe somewhere between the sewer main and the building connection.
Saturated Soil
Lateral Break
Two-Way Cleanout
Laundering Weir
39. 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.
easement
design
Two-Way Cleanout
site plan
40. 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.
Service Pipe
Manhole Bedding
Stratification
B T U
41. A wall that resist horizontal forces applied in the plane of the wall.
Laundering Weir
Retention
zoning
Shear Wall
42. 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
Grade
Compaction Test
Wastewater Facilities
43. 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.
Saturated Soil
Mail Line
Service Pipe
designed landscape
44. A downspout or pipe installed to drain a roof gutter to a storm drain or other means of disposal.
Roof Leader
Infiltrated Debris
Storm Water
drainage
45. Most plumbing codes require a vent pipe connection of adequate size and located downstream of a trap in a building wastewater system. This vent prevents the accumulation of gases or odors and is usually piped through the roof and out of doors.
landscape architecture registration
Wasteline Vent
Catch Basin
hardscape
46. Water that does not contain objectionable pollution - contamination - minerals - or infective agents and is considered satisfactory for drinking.
Aquifer
Wastewater Facilities
conservation
Potable Water
47. 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
American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)
Vault
Lateral Cleanout
Curb Stop
48. 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.
parkway
Chain of Custody
cost-benefit analysis
open space
49. A line from which heights and depths are calculated or measured. Also called a datum plane or a datum level.
Select Bedding
Baluster
Datum Line
Chain of Custody
50. 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.
hardscape
national park
Forest Service
Interceptor