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Civil Engineering Vocab

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1. 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.






2. A separate pipe - conduit or open channel (sewer) that carries runoff from storms - surface drainage - and street wash - but does not include domestic and industrial wastes. Storm sewers are often the recipients of hazardous or toxic substances due t






3. Water that may contain objectionable pollution - contamination - minerals - or infective agents and is considered unsafe and/or unpalatable for drinking.






4. Material used in backfilling of an excavation - selected for desirable compaction or other characteristics.






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






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






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






8. Post at which the railing terminates at each floor level.






9. The force that resists the separation of two bodies in contact.






10. 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






11. Precipitation which has been rendered (made) acidic by airborne pollutants.






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






13. A strip of unspoiled - often treed - agricultural or other outlying land used to separate or ring urban areas.






14. OE The pressure at a specific elevation exerted by a body of water at rest - or _ In the case of groundwater - the pressure at a specific elevation due to the weight of water at higher levels in the same zone of saturation.






15. 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






16. A wall that resist horizontal forces applied in the plane of the wall.






17. 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.






18. A railing composed of balusters capped by a handrail.






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






20. A large - public park - often highly scenic and isolated belonging to and operated by the federal government.






21. 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.






22. 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.






23. A structure made of concrete or other durable material to protect bare soil from erosion by splashing or falling water.






24. A layer - usually of concrete or mortar - for providing continuous support to such items as bricks - slabs - pipes.






25. 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.






26. Federal agency responsible for producing and managing many federally-funded public service programs - especially those affecting housing and public spaces.






27. 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.






28. Installation of pumps to lift wastewater to a higher elevation in places where flat land would require excessively deep sewer trenches. Also used to raise wastewater from areas too low to drain into available collection lines. These stations may be e






29. The running off of water from a land surface or subsurface - such as through sewers or natural means.






30. A U.S. government agency charged with administering vast areas of public land.






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






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






33. 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






34. The change to an area's natural resources - including animal and plant life - resulting from use by man. Some projects may require conducting of an 'environmental impact study' before development can proceed.






35. The condition of water or soil which contains a sufficient amount of acid substances to lower the pH below 7.0.






36. The illustration and description of problem-statements and large-scale design solutions that affect extensive areas of land; the anticipation of problems that will be encountered as human use and development of land continues.






37. 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






38. The pipes - conduits - structures - equipment - and processes required to collect - convey - and treat domestic and industrial wastes - and dispose of the effluent and sludge.






39. In zoning - a housing or commercial development composed of individual units that are regulated as a whole.






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






41. A receptacle designed to collect and retain grease and fatty substances usually found in kitchens or from similar wastes. It is installed in the drainage system between the kitchen or other point of production of the waste and the building wastewater






42. Landscape architecture - (civil) engineering - urban planning and architecture. Agronomy is also often included in this group.






43. Record of an area's natural and man-made resources - including vegetation - animal life - geological characteristics and mankind's presence in such forms as housing - highways and even hazardous wastes.






44. Narrowly defined - an extended view or prospect from a site which - many times - is as important as or more important than the site itself.






45. 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






46. Material used to provide a bedding or foundation for pipes or other underground structures. This material is of specified quality for desirable bedding or other characteristics and is often imported from a different location.






47. A special valve with a hinged disc or flap that opens in the direction of normal flow and is forced shut when flows attempt to go in the reverse or opposite direction of normal flows.






48. A water treatment process in which solid particles settle out of the water being treated in a large clarifier or sedimentation basin.






49. A popular social concern of the late nineteenth and early 20th centuries aimed at improving the appearance of urban areas through better planning and the addition of formal - romanticized public spaces and gardens.






50. American Society for Testing and Materials