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Civil Engineering Vocab
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1. 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
drainage
Aeration
Check Valve
Sediment
2. A sewer that receives wastewater from many tributary branches or sewers and serves a large territory and contributing population.
designed landscape
Trunk Sewer
Invert
Sediment
3. A large - public park - often highly scenic and isolated belonging to and operated by the federal government.
Artificial Groundwater Table
Deadend Manhole
Manifold
national park
4. 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.
Catch Basin
Rubble - Random
Absorption Capacity
Interconnector
5. A 19th- and 20th-century planned community traditionally featuring careful mixes of housing - open space - commercial activity and recreation. Examples include Reston - Va. - and Columbia - Md. - in the United States - and Harlow and Stevenage in Gre
Axial Load
new town
design
Sewage
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
Wastewater
building (construction) permit
landscape architect
Manhole Vents
7. A small tank (usually covered) or a storage facility used to store water for a home or farm. Often used to store rainwater.
Handhole Trap
Combined System
Cistern
Acidic
8. The property of a material or soil that permits considerable movement of water through it when it is saturated.
Permeability
Sewage
CADD
Subsidence
9. 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).
Rubble - Ordinary
Wastewater Treatment Plant
Curb inlet
Absorption
10. An opening or point of access in a building wastewater pipe system for rodding or snake operation.
Axial Load
Wastewater
Compaction Test
Wasteline Cleanout
11. 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.
agronomy
Riprap
Outlet
Clear Well
12. 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
Adsorption
Imported Backfill
Balustrade
13. A large pipe to which a series of smaller pipes are connected. Also called a HEADER.
Impermeable
Trunk Sewer
Chain of Custody
Manifold
14. 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.
Lateral Sewer
multiple use
Imported Backfill
Septic Tank
15. 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.
reclamation
conservation
Interconnector
Balustrade
16. A trained builder or installer of landscapes - retained to implement the plans of landscape architects.
Combined Wastewater
landscape contractor
Surcharge
Vault
17. 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
building codes
Selector
site plan
Wastewater
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.
Interceptor
Lift Station
planning
Rubble - Random
19. A collection pipe to which building laterals are connected.
parkway
building codes
Storm Water Inlet
Collection Main
20. 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
national park
Interceptor
Mail Line
Oxidation Ditch
21. A U.S. government agency charged with administering vast areas of public land.
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
building (construction) permit
Wastewater Collection System
Curb inlet
22. Sedimentation basin overflow weir. A plate with Vnotches along the top to ensure a uniform flow rate and avoid shortcircuiting.
design
Laundering Weir
Housing and Urban Development - Department of (HUD)
Adsorption
23. 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
Easement
B T U
Rubble - Ordinary
parkway
24. 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.
reclamation
CADD
Absorption Capacity
topography
25. Narrowly defined - an extended view or prospect from a site which - many times - is as important as or more important than the site itself.
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
Settlement
Manhole Vents
view
26. Federal agency responsible for producing and managing many federally-funded public service programs - especially those affecting housing and public spaces.
Housing and Urban Development - Department of (HUD)
National Park Service (NPS)
Weir
Rubble - Random
27. 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.
ground water
Stratification
Wasteline Cleanout
Rubble - Ordinary
28. Acronym for 'Computer Aided (i.e. - Assisted) Design and Drafting -' a digital design process in which landscape architects use computers to help produce precise drawings and details for the construction of a project.
topography
CADD
Combined System
natural resources
29. The legal grant of right-of-use to an area of designated private property.
easement
Subsidence
agronomy
Roof Leader
30. Downward movement of the soil or of a structure which it supports
environmental design professions
Shear Wall
Grease Trap
Settlement
31. 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.'
Angle of Repose
Manhole Vents
Sediment
Acidic
32. 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.
building (construction) permit
Sewage
Walers
Surcharge Manhole
33. 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.
Soil Displacement
Capillary Action
Wasteline Cleanout
Hydrostatic Pressure
34. 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.
Oxidation Ditch
Acid Rain
Day Tank
softscape
35. A U.S. government agency responsible for developing and enforcing regulations that guide the use of land and natural resources.
Runoff
Forest Service
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Rubble - Coursed
36. A branch of biology dealing with the relationship between living things and their environment.
Imported Backfill
ecology
Artesian
Sediment
37. 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
landscape architecture
Acidic
Baffle
Surcharge
38. A manhole which fills and allows raw wastewater to flow out onto the street or ground.
Selector
Combined System
Overflow Manhole
Sanitary Sewer
39. 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
Angle of Repose
Storm Runoff
designed landscape
Storm Sewer
40. The running off of water from a land surface or subsurface - such as through sewers or natural means.
Grease Trap
Easement
drainage
B T U
41. Branch or lateral sewers that collect wastewater from building sewers and service lines.
Aeration
Mail Line
Main Sewer
landscape
42. A pipe or conduit that carries wastewater or drainage water. The term 'collection line' is often used also.
Sewer
landscape architect
Caisson
Forest Service
43. Any method of determining the weight a compacted material is able to support without damage or displacement. Usually stated in pounds per square foot.
Baffle
environmental impact
Settlement
Compaction Test
44. 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.
Oxidation Ditch
Cistern
Main Sewer
Curb inlet
45. Any designated use or activity on a piece of land.
land use
Storm Sewer
Sanitary Sewer
natural resources
46. 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.
Main Sewer
Runoff
Permeability
Easement
47. A downspout or pipe installed to drain a roof gutter to a storm drain or other means of disposal.
Forest Service
Angle of Repose
Roof Leader
Supersaturated
48. 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.
environmental inventory
Groundwater
Sediment
Septic Tank
49. The prepared and compacted base on which a manhole is constructed.
Vault
Manhole Bedding
Runoff
open space
50. The creative illustration - planning and specification of space for the greatest possible amount of harmony - utility - value and beauty.
greenbelt
design
Stratification
Sedimentation