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Civil Engineering Vocab
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1. A collection pipe to which building laterals are connected.
environmental inventory
A S T M
Collection Main
Easement
2. A groundwater table that has seasonal changes in depth or elevation.
Council of Landscape Architecture Registration Boards (CLARB)
Balustrade
Handhole Trap
Seasonal Water Table
3. A legal means of protecting beautiful views and associated aesthetic quality along a site by restricting change in existing features without government approval.
Catch Basin
Stratification
scenic easement
Trunk Sewer
4. A system of major sewers serving as transporting lines and not as local or lateral sewers.
Trunk System
building codes
Trunk Sewer
Secondary Treatment
5. Water that may contain objectionable pollution - contamination - minerals - or infective agents and is considered unsafe and/or unpalatable for drinking.
Admixture
Nonpotable
Wastewater Collection System
Council of Landscape Architecture Registration Boards (CLARB)
6. A popular social concern of the late nineteenth and early 20th centuries aimed at improving the appearance of urban areas through better planning and the addition of formal - romanticized public spaces and gardens.
City Beautiful Movement
Collection Main
Imported Backfill
Runoff
7. Downstream opening or discharge end of a pipe - culvert - or canal.
Manifold
Surface Runoff
Outlet
Datum Line
8. 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
Aeration
Nonpotable
Storm Sewer
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
9. Federal agency responsible for producing and managing many federally-funded public service programs - especially those affecting housing and public spaces.
Service Pipe
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Housing and Urban Development - Department of (HUD)
Mail Line
10. A pipe or conduit that carries wastewater or drainage water. The term 'collection line' is often used also.
Housing and Urban Development - Department of (HUD)
Baluster
Sewer
ecology
11. 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.
building codes
Storm Water
Hydrostatic Pressure
site plan
12. 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
greenbelt
Septic Tank
air rights
13. The natural elements with which landscape architects work - such as plant materials and the soil itself.
Trunk Sewer
softscape
Aeration
Septic Tank
14. A manhole which fills and allows raw wastewater to flow out onto the street or ground.
easement
Angle of Repose
Soil Pipe
Overflow Manhole
15. A natural underground layer of porous - waterbearing materials (sand - gravel) usually capable of yielding a large amount or supply of water.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
B T U
Aquifer
site plan
16. The linear or a real dimension over which a higher component transmits load to a lower component
design
Bearing
Handhole Trap
Baffle
17. 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.
Oxidation Ditch
Balustrade
manipulation of space
Compaction
18. Shoring members placed across a trench to hold other horizontal and vertical shoring members in place.
Acidic
historic preservation
Cross Braces
Nonpotable
19. A sewer pipe to which building laterals are connected. Also called a COLLECTION MAIN.
Catch Basin
land use
open space
Sewer Main
20. Material used to fill in a trench or excavation
Adhesion
Combined Wastewater
Backfill
Wasteline Vent
21. The legal grant of right-of-use to an area of designated private property.
easement
environmental inventory
air rights
Absorption Capacity
22. The lowest point of the channel inside a pipe - conduit - or canal.
Grease Trap
greenbelt
Invert
softscape
23. A large pipe to which a series of smaller pipes are connected. Also called a HEADER.
Manifold
parkway
environmental impact
air rights
24. A multinational organization of landscape architects whose purpose is the promotion of landscape design and planning.
Angle Post
International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA)
Storm Collection System
designed landscape
25. 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
Soil Pipe
Pump Station
contour
Trunk System
26. 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.
CADD
Council of Landscape Architecture Registration Boards (CLARB)
Soil Pipe
Bearing Wall
27. 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.
Cistern
designed landscape
City Beautiful Movement
Datum Line
28. Opening in a sewer provided for the purpose of permitting operators or equipment to enter or leave a sewer. Sometimes called an 'access hole' or a 'maintenance hole.'
new town
landscape architecture
Curb Stop
Manhole
29. The prepared and compacted base on which a manhole is constructed.
Surface Runoff
City Beautiful Movement
Lateral Cleanout
Manhole Bedding
30. A device that admits surface waters to the storm water drainage system. Also see CURB INLET and CATCH BASIN.
Storm Water Inlet
Elevation
Potable Water
Surcharge
31. A device made of pipe fittings used to prevent sewer gases escaping from the branch or lateral sewer from entering a building sewer.
Chain of Custody
Seasonal Water Table
Handhole Trap
Angle Post
32. Masonry composed of roughly shaped stones - well bonded and brought at irregular intervals vertically to discontinuous but approximately level beds or courses.
Adsorption
B T U
built environment
Rubble - Random
33. Any designated use or activity on a piece of land.
building codes
land use
Invert
natural resources
34. A pipe or conduit (sewer) intended to carry wastewater or waterborne wastes from homes - businesses - and industries to the POTW (Publicly Owned Treatment Works). Storm water runoff or unpolluted water should be collected and transported in a separat
Sanitary Sewer
Trunk System
Compaction
Potable Water
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.
Newel Post
Bearing
Main Sewer
Storm Sewer
36. 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
Oxidation Ditch
Forest Service
Secondary Treatment
37. The man-made creation of or alterations to a specific area - including its natural resources. This is in contrast to the 'natural environment.'
built environment
national park
CADD
Sanitary Sewer
38. 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
cost-benefit analysis
Infiltrated Debris
Wastewater Collection System
39. 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.
Curb Stop
Elevation
Overflow Manhole
Storm Collection System
40. A holding basin in which variations in flow and composition of a liquid are averaged. Such basins are used to provide a flow of reasonably uniform volume and composition to a treatment unit. Also called a balancing reservoir.
Equalizing Basin
Pump Station
Subsidence
Imported Backfill
41. 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
manipulation of space
Adsorption
Lift Station
Manhole Vents
42. An opening or point of access in a building wastewater pipe system for rodding or snake operation.
Day Tank
historic preservation
Wasteline Cleanout
Surcharge
43. The gathering of a gas - liquid - or dissolved substance on the surface or interface zone of another material. Advanced Waste Treatment (water) n Any process of water renovation that upgrades treated wastewater to meet specific reuse requirements. Ma
landscape architecture registration
Main Sewer
Deadend Manhole
Adsorption
44. 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
Subsidence
Wasteline Vent
Trunk Sewer
Laundering Weir
45. Vertical member supporting the railing.
Walers
Baluster
Interceptor
Combined Wastewater
46. 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
Wastewater
Easement
master plan
Secondary Treatment
47. 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
Curb Stop
Axial Load
Storm Water Inlet
48. A chamber or well used with storm or combined sewers as a means of removing grit which might otherwise enter and be deposited in sewers. Also see STORM WATER INLET and CURB INLET.
Select Backfill
Forest Service
Catch Basin
parkway
49. 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)
Runoff
zoning
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
50. Sedimentation basin overflow weir. A plate with Vnotches along the top to ensure a uniform flow rate and avoid shortcircuiting.
manipulation of space
Artificial Groundwater Table
design
Laundering Weir