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Civil Engineering Vocab
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1. Regulations specifying the type of construction methods and materials that are allowable on a project.
Elevation
City Beautiful Movement
building codes
easement
2. Downward movement of the soil or of a structure which it supports
Settlement
Trunk System
Earth Shift
building codes
3. In landscape architecture - an essential sheet showing site boundaries and significant site features - used as a basis for subsequent plan development.
Bedding
Storm Sewer
Compaction Test
base plan
4. Vertical member supporting the railing.
conservation plan
Baluster
Walers
Imported Backfill
5. A wall that supports any vertical load in addition to its own weight.
Riprap
Capillary Action
designed landscape
Bearing Wall
6. 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.
Walers
Nonpotable
American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)
Interceptor
7. 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
environmental impact
Surcharge
Combined Sewer
Lateral Cleanout
8. A sewer designed to carry both sanitary wastewaters and storm or surface water runoff.
Artesian
Combined System
Storm Water Inlet
landscape
9. A collection pipe to which building laterals are connected.
Adhesion
Collection Main
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
landscape architecture registration
10. The condition of water or soil which contains a sufficient amount of acid substances to lower the pH below 7.0.
Acidic
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
Grease Trap
Activated Sludge Process
11. 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.
Select Bedding
Artificial Groundwater Table
Capillary Action
new town
12. Landscape architecture - (civil) engineering - urban planning and architecture. Agronomy is also often included in this group.
historic preservation
Riprap
environmental design professions
built environment
13. Water that does not contain objectionable pollution - contamination - minerals - or infective agents and is considered satisfactory for drinking.
Potable Water
Imported Backfill
Subsidence
landscape contractor
14. The linear or a real dimension over which a higher component transmits load to a lower component
Curb Stop
Sewage
Backfill
Bearing
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.
conservation
Angle Post
A S T M
contour
16. A system used where wastewater collection systems and treatment plants are not available. The system is a settling tank in which settled sludge is in intimate contact with the wastewater flowing through the tank and the organic solids are decomposed
Soil Pipe
CADD
Riprap
Septic Tank
17. 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
planning
Select Backfill
Manhole Vents
18. 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.
Subsidence
natural resources
Roof Leader
Surface Runoff
19. 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.
Surcharge
Interconnector
Sewage
Soil Pipe
20. A small box-like structure that contains valves used to regulate flows.
Terminal Manhole
Deadend Manhole
Service Pipe
Vault
21. Tamping or rolling of a material to achieve a surface or density that is able to support predicted loads.
built environment
Compaction
Laundering Weir
Earth Shift
22. Masonry composed of irregularly shaped stones laid without regularity of coursing - but well bonded.
Collection Main
Rubble - Ordinary
ground water
Artesian
23. Masonry composed of roughly shaped stones - well bonded and brought at irregular intervals vertically to discontinuous but approximately level beds or courses.
Cross Braces
Rubble - Random
Lateral Sewer
Acidic
24. A manhole located at the upstream end of a sewer and having no inlet pipe. Also called a TERMINAL MANHOLE.
Deadend Manhole
Impermeable
Storm Water
Water Table
25. A sewer designed to carry both sanitary wastewaters and storm or surface water runoff.
Grease Trap
landscape
Combined Sewer
Wastewater Treatment Plant
26. Downstream opening or discharge end of a pipe - culvert - or canal.
Storm Runoff
Bearing
Outlet
Walers
27. The science and management of land - especially rural - agricultural land.
agronomy
Compaction Test
Selector
Impermeable
28. Masonry composed of roughly shaped stones fitting approximately on level beds - well bonded and brought at vertical intervals to continuous level beds of courses.
Rubble - Coursed
Lateral Break
building codes
Riprap
29. Precipitation which has been rendered (made) acidic by airborne pollutants.
Storm Sewer
Acid Rain
Elevation
National Park Service (NPS)
30. A capped opening in a building lateral -usually located on the property line - through which the pipelines can be cleaned.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Lateral Cleanout
landscape architecture
land trust
31. 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.
Two-Way Cleanout
Trunk Sewer
Wastewater Facilities
air rights
32. 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.
landscape architect
Handhole Trap
site plan
conservation plan
33. 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.
view
Activated Sludge Process
environmental impact
Earth Shift
34. The pipe system for collecting and carrying water and watercarried wastes from domestic and industrial sources to a wastewater treatment plant.
Wasteline Cleanout
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
Wastewater Collection System
Estimated Flow
35. 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.
National Park Service (NPS)
Compaction
Rubble - Random
Wasteline Vent
36. A road laid through a garden or park-like landscape - usually with median and roadside plantings.
Selector
Angle Post
parkway
Oxidation Ditch
37. Branch or lateral sewers that collect wastewater from building sewers and service lines.
Walers
Mail Line
Manhole Vents
Estimated Flow
38. A U.S. government agency responsible for developing and enforcing regulations that guide the use of land and natural resources.
Bearing
Day Tank
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
conservation
39. A downspout or pipe installed to drain a roof gutter to a storm drain or other means of disposal.
National Park Service (NPS)
landscape architecture
Roof Leader
air rights
40. The precipitation that cannot be absorbed by the soil and flows across the surface by gravity. The water that reaches a stream by traveling over the soil surface or falls directly into the stream channels - including not only the large permanent stre
Newel Post
Surface Runoff
Interconnector
Artesian
41. 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).
Adhesion
Caisson
Subsidence
Absorption
42. 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.
Easement
Main Sewer
design
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
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
Roof Leader
Rubble - Ordinary
view
Secondary Treatment
44. 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.
Curb Stop
designed landscape
Artesian
Overflow Manhole
45. 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
Storm Sewer
Supersaturated
Collection System
conservation
46. 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
parkway
historic preservation
environmental impact
Artesian
47. A flat board or plate - deflector - guide or similar device constructed or placed in flowing water or slurry systems to cause more uniform flow velocities - to absorb energy - and to divert - guide - or agitate liquids (water - chemical solutions - s
Baffle
Manhole Bedding
Collection Main
Groundwater
48. 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
Lift Station
environmental impact
Angle Post
Grease Trap
49. A coordinating agency formed in 1961 for state boards that administer licensing exams and maintain records for landscape architects to practice.
Council of Landscape Architecture Registration Boards (CLARB)
Storm Water
reclamation
Impermeable
50. 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.
Admixture
Runoff
Splash Pad
Weir