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Civil Engineering Vocab

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1. 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






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






3. A small box-like structure that contains valves used to regulate flows.






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






5. A branch of biology dealing with the relationship between living things and their environment.






6. 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.






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






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






9. Subsurface water in the saturation zone from which wells and springs are fed. In a strict sense the term applies only to water below the water table. Also called 'phreatic water' and 'plerotic water.'






10. The used household water and watercarried solids that flow in sewers to a wastewater treatment plant. The preferred term is WASTEWATER.






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






12. The creative illustration - planning and specification of space for the greatest possible amount of harmony - utility - value and beauty.






13. The pipe system for collecting and carrying water and watercarried wastes from domestic and industrial sources to a wastewater treatment plant.






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






15. The science and management of land - especially rural - agricultural land.






16. The amount of liquid which a solid material can absorb. Sand - as an example - can hold approximately onethird of its volume in water - or three cubic feet of dry sand can contain one cubic foot of water. A denser soil - such as clay - can hold much






17. 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.






18. 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






19. A device that admits surface waters to the storm water drainage system. Also see CURB INLET and CATCH BASIN.






20. 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






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






22. Solid material settled from suspension in a liquid.






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






24. A road laid through a garden or park-like landscape - usually with median and roadside plantings.






25. 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






26. 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.






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. 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.






29. The conversion of large solid particles of sludge into very fine particles which either dissolve or remain suspended in wastewater.






30. 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






31. 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.






32. 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.






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






34. The linear or a real dimension over which a higher component transmits load to a lower component






35. A preliminary plan showing proposed ultimate site development. Master plans often comprise site work that must be executed in phases over a long time and are thus subject to drastic modification.






36. 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.






37. Load applied along or parallel to and concentric with the primary axis






38. 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.






39. A manhole located at the upstream end of a sewer and having no inlet pipe. Also called a DEADEND MANHOLE.






40. An arrangement of pipes - equipment - devices - tanks and structures for treating wastewater and industrial wastes. A water pollution control plant.






41. 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.






42. The property of a material or soil that permits considerable movement of water through it when it is saturated.






43. 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






44. 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






45. A mixture of storm or surface runoff and other wastewater such as domestic or industrial wastewater.






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






47. One or a series of oneinch diameter holes through a manhole lid for purposes of venting dangerous gases found in sewers.






48. 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.






49. 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






50. A line from which heights and depths are calculated or measured. Also called a datum plane or a datum level.







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