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Civil Engineering Vocab
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1. A large - public park - often highly scenic and isolated belonging to and operated by the federal government.
Impermeable
national park
CADD
Terminal Manhole
2. Material used to fill in a trench or excavation
Backfill
land use
Oxidation Ditch
Surface Runoff
3. Shoring members placed across a trench to hold other horizontal and vertical shoring members in place.
Select Bedding
Combined Wastewater
zoning
Cross Braces
4. 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
Wasteline Cleanout
Curb inlet
Lift Station
Infiltrated Debris
5. A sewer designed to carry both sanitary wastewaters and storm or surface water runoff.
Wastewater Collection System
Combined System
Baffle
Oxidation Ditch
6. The conversion of large solid particles of sludge into very fine particles which either dissolve or remain suspended in wastewater.
topography
Liquefaction
base plan
Housing and Urban Development - Department of (HUD)
7. Water that may contain objectionable pollution - contamination - minerals - or infective agents and is considered unsafe and/or unpalatable for drinking.
cost-benefit analysis
Nonpotable
Impermeable
Day Tank
8. A device that admits surface waters to the storm water drainage system. Also see CURB INLET and CATCH BASIN.
Balustrade
Storm Water Inlet
Rubble - Random
Mail Line
9. A strip of unspoiled - often treed - agricultural or other outlying land used to separate or ring urban areas.
contour
greenbelt
Retention
Curb inlet
10. The property of a material or soil that permits considerable movement of water through it when it is saturated.
greenbelt
Permeability
Hydrostatic Pressure
building (construction) permit
11. A tank used to store a chemical solution of known concentration for feed to a chemical feeder. A day tank usually stores sufficient chemical solution to properly treat the water being treated for at least one day. Also called an AGE TANK.
Sedimentation Basin
designed landscape
Day Tank
Rubble - Ordinary
12. 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.
Axial Load
master plan
Groundwater
designed landscape
13. The elevation of the invert (or bottom) of a pipeline - canal - culvert - or similar conduit. _ The inclination or slope of a pipeline - conduit - stream channel - or natural ground surface; usually expressed in terms of the ratio or percentage of nu
Grade
Supersaturated
scenic easement
Absorption Capacity
14. 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
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
master plan
B T U
conservation plan
15. 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.
Mail Line
Council of Landscape Architecture Registration Boards (CLARB)
hardscape
zoning
16. 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.
grade
natural resources
Baluster
Trunk System
17. The natural elements with which landscape architects work - such as plant materials and the soil itself.
softscape
Storm Water
Surcharge
Settlement
18. A type of easement granting permission to a constructor or developer to build over a street or structure.
air rights
Handhole Trap
Stratification
Aquifer
19. 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.
Combined Sewer
drainage
Storm Sewer
open space
20. The used household water and watercarried solids that flow in sewers to a wastewater treatment plant. The preferred term is WASTEWATER.
greenbelt
Trunk Sewer
Sewage
landscape architecture registration
21. 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.
Curb inlet
Aeration
A S T M
conservation plan
22. The pipes - conduits - structures - equipment - and processes required to collect - convey - and treat domestic and industrial wastes - and dispose of the effluent and sludge.
Wastewater Facilities
zoning
open space
National Park Service (NPS)
23. The lowest point of the channel inside a pipe - conduit - or canal.
Lateral Sewer
Invert
Imported Backfill
Selector
24. A coordinating agency formed in 1961 for state boards that administer licensing exams and maintain records for landscape architects to practice.
Manhole Bedding
Sediment
Council of Landscape Architecture Registration Boards (CLARB)
Angle of Repose
25. Branch or lateral sewers that collect wastewater from building sewers and service lines.
Sewer Main
Mail Line
Collection Main
Backfill
26. Water that does not contain objectionable pollution - contamination - minerals - or infective agents and is considered satisfactory for drinking.
Infiltrated Debris
Potable Water
Gravity Flow
Easement
27. 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
designed landscape
Datum Line
Subsidence
Collection System
28. Post at which the railing terminates at each floor level.
Surcharge Manhole
Council of Landscape Architecture Registration Boards (CLARB)
Supersaturated
Newel Post
29. A groundwater table that has seasonal changes in depth or elevation.
Balustrade
Settlement
CADD
Seasonal Water Table
30. 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
Chain of Custody
Estimated Flow
new town
Retention
31. A dimensioned drawing indicating the form of an existing area and the physical objects existing in it and those to be built or installed upon it.
greenbelt
environmental inventory
site plan
Forest Service
32. 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
Combined System
landscape architect
Cistern
Seasonal Water Table
33. 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
softscape
Forest Service
grade
34. 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.
Stratification
Cistern
Sewage
historic preservation
35. American Society for Testing and Materials
landscape architecture registration
Potable Water
planned unit development (PUD)
A S T M
36. The science and management of land - especially rural - agricultural land.
Axial Load
agronomy
Easement
Sedimentation
37. In landscape architecture - an essential sheet showing site boundaries and significant site features - used as a basis for subsequent plan development.
Laundering Weir
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
cost-benefit analysis
base plan
38. A railing composed of balusters capped by a handrail.
Seasonal Water Table
scenic easement
Baluster
Balustrade
39. A biological wastewater treatment process which speeds up the decomposition of wastes in the wastewater being treated. Activated sludge is added to wastewater and the mixture (mixed liquor) is aerated and agitated. After some time in the aeration tan
Seasonal Water Table
Permeability
Activated Sludge Process
Lateral Sewer
40. 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)
Lateral Cleanout
Roof Leader
Grade
41. A trained builder or installer of landscapes - retained to implement the plans of landscape architects.
planning
landscape contractor
Wastewater
Aeration
42. The linear or a real dimension over which a higher component transmits load to a lower component
air rights
Bearing
Mail Line
Storm Water Inlet
43. The pipe system for collecting and carrying water and watercarried wastes from domestic and industrial sources to a wastewater treatment plant.
Lateral Break
Manhole
national park
Wastewater Collection System
44. 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.
land trust
Grease Trap
Riprap
Lateral Break
45. A system of major sewers serving as transporting lines and not as local or lateral sewers.
Interceptor
Elevation
agronomy
Trunk System
46. 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
Potable Water
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
site plan
Selector
47. Masonry composed of irregularly shaped stones laid without regularity of coursing - but well bonded.
Easement
Rubble - Ordinary
Baluster
Bedding
48. 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
Storm Runoff
Select Bedding
Walers
Secondary Treatment
49. 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.
Oxidation Ditch
A S T M
Lateral Sewer
Deadend Manhole
50. A collection pipe to which building laterals are connected.
Trunk System
Wastewater Facilities
cost-benefit analysis
Collection Main