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Civil Engineering Vocab
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1. A small tank (usually covered) or a storage facility used to store water for a home or farm. Often used to store rainwater.
Easement
Riprap
Surface Runoff
Cistern
2. A manhole located at the upstream end of a sewer and having no inlet pipe. Also called a DEADEND MANHOLE.
Datum Line
Terminal Manhole
Absorption
easement
3. The legal grant of right-of-use to an area of designated private property.
ground water
Vault
easement
land trust
4. The science and management of land - especially rural - agricultural land.
Trunk System
Earth Shift
agronomy
new town
5. Water that does not contain objectionable pollution - contamination - minerals - or infective agents and is considered satisfactory for drinking.
Balustrade
Potable Water
Easement
Curb Stop
6. 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
built environment
Hydrostatic Pressure
landscape architect
Cistern
7. Movement of soil from one place to another. Generally accompanies SILTING of a sewer system. Where infiltration is taking place and silt is carried into a sewer system - such silt or soil is removed from the ground around the sewer pipe and the resul
Soil Displacement
Bearing Wall
Acidic
Hydrostatic Pressure
8. Any method of determining the weight a compacted material is able to support without damage or displacement. Usually stated in pounds per square foot.
Lateral Sewer
planned unit development (PUD)
Angle of Repose
Compaction Test
9. Water that may contain objectionable pollution - contamination - minerals - or infective agents and is considered unsafe and/or unpalatable for drinking.
Adhesion
landscape architect
Nonpotable
Forest Service
10. A system of major sewers serving as transporting lines and not as local or lateral sewers.
Water Table
Trunk System
Groundwater
Wasteline Vent
11. 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.
Select Backfill
Lateral Cleanout
Backfill
Saturated Soil
12. An opening or point of access in a building wastewater pipe system for rodding or snake operation.
Interceptor
Wasteline Cleanout
Lift Station
Mail Line
13. A coordinating agency formed in 1961 for state boards that administer licensing exams and maintain records for landscape architects to practice.
Vault
Council of Landscape Architecture Registration Boards (CLARB)
Manhole
Sanitary Sewer
14. Masonry composed of roughly shaped stones - well bonded and brought at irregular intervals vertically to discontinuous but approximately level beds or courses.
Rubble - Random
Seasonal Water Table
Chain of Custody
Wasteline Cleanout
15. 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).
Sanitary Sewer
Absorption
Activated Sludge Process
Datum Line
16. A manhole located at the upstream end of a sewer and having no inlet pipe. Also called a TERMINAL MANHOLE.
Deadend Manhole
Acid Rain
new town
Adhesion
17. A groundwater table that has seasonal changes in depth or elevation.
Seasonal Water Table
Saturated Soil
Shear Wall
Day Tank
18. A septic tank or other holding tank which serves as a temporary wastewater storage reservoir for a Septic Tank Effluent Pump (STEP) system. See SEPTIC TANK.
Adsorption
Trunk System
Interceptor
Infiltrated Debris
19. A community's used water and water carried solids (including used water from industrial processes) that flow to a treatment plant. Storm water - surface water - and groundwater infiltration also may be included in the wastewater that enters a wastewa
Invert
air rights
National Park Service (NPS)
Wastewater
20. Tamping or rolling of a material to achieve a surface or density that is able to support predicted loads.
Angle Post
Walers
Compaction
Baffle
21. 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
Mail Line
Lift Station
Liquefaction
22. Regulations specifying the type of construction methods and materials that are allowable on a project.
Soil Displacement
base plan
Admixture
building codes
23. A professional society that represents landscape architects in the United States and Canada and seeks to better the practice and understanding of landscape architecture through education - research - state registration and other programs.
Imported Backfill
Surface Runoff
American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)
Wastewater Collection System
24. The slope of a plot of land. Grading is the mechanical process of moving earth changing the degree of rise or descent of the land in order to establish good drainage and otherwise suit the intent of a landscape design.
Trunk System
Mail Line
grade
landscape
25. 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.
Lateral Sewer
contour
Sedimentation
Storm Water Inlet
26. 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.
Earth Shift
grade
Capillary Action
American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)
27. The angle between a horizontal line andthe slope or surface of unsupported material such as gravel - sand -or loose soil. Also called the 'natural slope.'
Bearing
Baluster
Elevation
Angle of Repose
28. Harmonious use of the land for more than one purpose; not necessarily the combination of uses that will yield the highest economic return - e.g. - a mix of residential and commercial developments in the same area.
Sewer Main
multiple use
Oxidation Ditch
CADD
29. 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.
Check Valve
manipulation of space
Sedimentation
planned unit development (PUD)
30. A multinational organization of landscape architects whose purpose is the promotion of landscape design and planning.
Angle Post
national park
Interceptor
International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA)
31. 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
Oxidation Ditch
landscape contractor
Backfill
32. A break in a lateral pipe somewhere between the sewer main and the building connection.
Runoff
Lateral Break
Selector
Storm Sewer
33. 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.
conservation
Surface Runoff
scenic easement
Manhole
34. 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.
Soil Displacement
manipulation of space
natural resources
Runoff
35. 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.
Stratification
Storm Water Inlet
natural resources
national park
36. 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.
building (construction) permit
Surcharge
Surcharge Manhole
open space
37. 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)
Manifold
ground water
master plan
38. A line from which heights and depths are calculated or measured. Also called a datum plane or a datum level.
Storm Water
Invert
Chain of Custody
Datum Line
39. 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.
zoning
Combined System
conservation plan
Soil Pipe
40. This landscape architecture specialization has evolved to encompass maintenance of a site in its present condition; conservation of a site as part of a larger area of historic importance; restoration of a site to a given date or quality; renovation o
Rubble - Random
built environment
historic preservation
Manhole Bedding
41. 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
Select Bedding
Surcharge
new town
Trunk System
42. Precipitation which has been rendered (made) acidic by airborne pollutants.
scenic easement
CADD
Acid Rain
Roof Leader
43. 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
Secondary Treatment
view
scenic easement
Stratification
44. Water or wastewater flowing from a higher elevation to a lower elevation due to the force of gravity. The water does not flow due to energy provided by a pump. Wherever possible - wastewater collection systems are designed to use the force of gravity
Housing and Urban Development - Department of (HUD)
Caisson
Gravity Flow
Absorption
45. 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.
Lateral Cleanout
landscape architect
Lateral Break
Chain of Custody
46. A type of easement granting permission to a constructor or developer to build over a street or structure.
air rights
national park
Baluster
landscape architect
47. A downspout or pipe installed to drain a roof gutter to a storm drain or other means of disposal.
Shear Wall
Roof Leader
scenic easement
Cistern
48. The force that resists the separation of two bodies in contact.
Wastewater Collection System
Adhesion
Service Pipe
Groundwater
49. The pipeline extending from the water main to the building served or to the consumer's system.
Manhole
grade
Service Pipe
Caisson
50. The dropping or lowering of the ground surface as a result of removing excess water (overdraft or overpumping) from an aquifer. After excess water has been removed - the soil will settle - become compacted and the ground surface will drop and can cau
Runoff
Subsidence
manipulation of space
Manifold