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Civil Engineering Vocab
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1. A device that admits surface waters to the storm water drainage system. Also see CURB INLET and CATCH BASIN.
Main Sewer
Soil Displacement
Storm Water Inlet
topography
2. 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
ground water
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
Combined Sewer
3. 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.
open space
Storm Water
designed landscape
Seasonal Water Table
4. Downstream opening or discharge end of a pipe - culvert - or canal.
Outlet
landscape contractor
Subsidence
Aeration
5. The natural elements with which landscape architects work - such as plant materials and the soil itself.
softscape
Aeration
Compaction Test
Manhole Bedding
6. The legal grant of right-of-use to an area of designated private property.
Curb inlet
easement
Storm Sewer
Two-Way Cleanout
7. A branch of biology dealing with the relationship between living things and their environment.
ecology
Sewer
greenbelt
Lift Station
8. 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.
Acidic
Elevation
Supersaturated
landscape
9. A capped opening in a building lateral -usually located on the property line - through which the pipelines can be cleaned.
Storm Water Inlet
Lateral Cleanout
Manifold
contour
10. A type of wastewater or service connection pipe made of a low grade of cast iron. _ In plumbing - a pipe that carries the discharge of toilets or similar fixtures - with or without the discharges from other fixtures.
Combined Wastewater
Soil Pipe
Combined Sewer
environmental inventory
11. 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
Nonpotable
Datum Line
Surcharge
historic preservation
12. Not easily penetrated. The property of a material or soil that does not allow - or allows only with great difficulty - the movement or passage of water.
Absorption Capacity
Impermeable
planned unit development (PUD)
Activated Sludge Process
13. The used household water and watercarried solids that flow in sewers to a wastewater treatment plant. The preferred term is WASTEWATER.
Sewage
Curb inlet
Lateral Break
Trunk Sewer
14. 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
Impermeable
Grease Trap
Selector
Manhole
15. 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.
Interconnector
Sedimentation
Lateral Cleanout
Surcharge Manhole
16. Post at which the railing terminates at each floor level.
Storm Water
Newel Post
Activated Sludge Process
Riprap
17. A structure made of concrete or other durable material to protect bare soil from erosion by splashing or falling water.
Combined System
building (construction) permit
Bearing Wall
Splash Pad
18. 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
landscape architecture
easement
Adhesion
Wasteline Vent
19. 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.
Acidic
Absorption
planned unit development (PUD)
Two-Way Cleanout
20. The science and management of land - especially rural - agricultural land.
Two-Way Cleanout
agronomy
built environment
Combined Sewer
21. Landscape architecture - (civil) engineering - urban planning and architecture. Agronomy is also often included in this group.
grade
Main Sewer
Outlet
environmental design professions
22. Tamping or rolling of a material to achieve a surface or density that is able to support predicted loads.
Surface Runoff
Retention
site plan
Compaction
23. American Society for Testing and Materials
Forest Service
Runoff
A S T M
ground water
24. A coordinating agency formed in 1961 for state boards that administer licensing exams and maintain records for landscape architects to practice.
scenic easement
Council of Landscape Architecture Registration Boards (CLARB)
land use
contour
25. A reservoir for the storage of filtered water of sufficient capacity to prevent the need to vary the filtration rate with variations in demand. Also used to provide chlorine contact time for disinfection.
Clear Well
Manhole Vents
planning
ground water
26. 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.
Activated Sludge Process
Admixture
Selector
Hydrostatic Pressure
27. A road laid through a garden or park-like landscape - usually with median and roadside plantings.
parkway
air rights
landscape architecture registration
Subsidence
28. A natural underground layer of porous - waterbearing materials (sand - gravel) usually capable of yielding a large amount or supply of water.
Permeability
Check Valve
Aquifer
Catch Basin
29. An authorization issued by a government agency allowing construction of a project according to approved plans and specifications.
easement
land trust
building (construction) permit
master plan
30. Pertaining to groundwater - a well - or underground basin where the water is under a pressure greater than atmospheric and will rise above the level of its upper confining surface if given an opportunity to do so.
Main Sewer
Lateral Cleanout
Supersaturated
Artesian
31. Any method of determining the weight a compacted material is able to support without damage or displacement. Usually stated in pounds per square foot.
Clear Well
Storm Water Inlet
Compaction Test
Sanitary Sewer
32. A mixture of storm or surface runoff and other wastewater such as domestic or industrial wastewater.
landscape architecture
Combined Wastewater
Sedimentation Basin
planning
33. 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.
Artesian
historic preservation
Supersaturated
Splash Pad
34. A U.S. government agency responsible for developing and enforcing regulations that guide the use of land and natural resources.
Aquifer
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Invert
Shear Wall
35. 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.
International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA)
master plan
Main Sewer
built environment
36. One or a series of oneinch diameter holes through a manhole lid for purposes of venting dangerous gases found in sewers.
Lateral Cleanout
Forest Service
planned unit development (PUD)
Manhole Vents
37. A device made of pipe fittings used to prevent sewer gases escaping from the branch or lateral sewer from entering a building sewer.
Handhole Trap
Soil Pipe
master plan
Lateral Cleanout
38. 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
Storm Sewer
Imported Backfill
Activated Sludge Process
Saturated Soil
39. 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
Sanitary Sewer
Storm Collection System
Collection System
Surface Runoff
40. 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
Wastewater Treatment Plant
scenic easement
Housing and Urban Development - Department of (HUD)
Aeration
41. A plan for conserving or protecting various natural or manufactured resources. Such a plan is used as a management tool in making decisions regarding soil - water - vegetation - manufactured objects and other resources at a particular site.
Storm Water Inlet
Trunk System
Baluster
conservation plan
42. Federal agency responsible for producing and managing many federally-funded public service programs - especially those affecting housing and public spaces.
Bearing
Outlet
Absorption
Housing and Urban Development - Department of (HUD)
43. A wall or plate placed in an open channel and used to measure the flow of water. The depth of the flow over the weir can be used to calculate the flow rate - or a chart or conversion table may be used to convert depth to flow. A wall or obstruction u
Gravity Flow
Potable Water
Weir
CADD
44. Any designated use or activity on a piece of land.
Surface Runoff
land use
manipulation of space
Baffle
45. Any attempt to restore to beneficial use land that has lost its fertility and stability; most often applies to mining reclamation - such as the restoration of strip mines and quarries.
Check Valve
Lateral Cleanout
reclamation
Collection Main
46. A system of major sewers serving as transporting lines and not as local or lateral sewers.
open space
Wasteline Vent
Trunk System
Curb inlet
47. 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.
Vault
Secondary Treatment
environmental inventory
Walers
48. 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.
agronomy
Soil Displacement
Storm Collection System
Storm Runoff
49. 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.
Sedimentation Basin
Angle Post
Supersaturated
Shear Wall
50. A break in a lateral pipe somewhere between the sewer main and the building connection.
Vault
Day Tank
Lateral Break
Wastewater Treatment Plant