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Civil Engineering Vocab
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1. A groundwater table that has seasonal changes in depth or elevation.
Walers
land use
Nonpotable
Seasonal Water Table
2. A conservation group that maintains a revolving fund for quickly buying land that is in danger of being developed inappropriately or without regard to proper environmental considerations.
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
land trust
Datum Line
Vault
3. Water that does not contain objectionable pollution - contamination - minerals - or infective agents and is considered satisfactory for drinking.
Collection Main
Absorption Capacity
Lift Station
Potable Water
4. 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
Balustrade
Outlet
National Park Service (NPS)
Liquefaction
5. The pipes - conduits - structures - equipment - and processes required to collect - convey - and treat domestic and industrial wastes - and dispose of the effluent and sludge.
Imported Backfill
Wastewater Facilities
Baluster
Select Bedding
6. Solid material settled from suspension in a liquid.
Equalizing Basin
Sediment
drainage
Surface Runoff
7. 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
Acidic
Runoff
multiple use
8. 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
Saturated Soil
Wasteline Vent
Grade
Rubble - Coursed
9. Narrowly defined - an extended view or prospect from a site which - many times - is as important as or more important than the site itself.
Septic Tank
view
Selector
Chain of Custody
10. A small tank (usually covered) or a storage facility used to store water for a home or farm. Often used to store rainwater.
environmental inventory
Cistern
Bedding
Storm Sewer
11. Elements added to a natural landscape - such as paving stones - gravel - walkways - irrigation systems - roads - retaining walls - sculpture - street amenities - fountains - and other mechanical features.
hardscape
Groundwater
Outlet
Weir
12. A large - public park - often highly scenic and isolated belonging to and operated by the federal government.
Oxidation Ditch
Angle of Repose
Surcharge
national park
13. An unstable condition of a solution (water) in which the solution contains a substance at a concentration greater than the saturation concentration for the substance.
Supersaturated
zoning
Grease Trap
designed landscape
14. Material used in backfilling of an excavation - selected for desirable compaction or other characteristics.
Select Backfill
Sewer
topography
land use
15. The condition of water or soil which contains a sufficient amount of acid substances to lower the pH below 7.0.
Soil Pipe
Acidic
Storm Runoff
Outlet
16. A groundwater table that is changed by artificial means. Examples of activities that artificially raise the level of a groundwater table include agricultural irrigation - dams and excessive sewer line exfiltration. A groundwater table can be artifici
conservation plan
Subsidence
Artificial Groundwater Table
environmental impact
17. A wall that supports any vertical load in addition to its own weight.
Angle Post
Curb Stop
Bearing Wall
Acid Rain
18. The pipe system for collecting and carrying water and watercarried wastes from domestic and industrial sources to a wastewater treatment plant.
Wastewater Collection System
national park
Baffle
Clear Well
19. Sand - silt - gravel and rocks carried or washed into a collection system by infiltration water flows.
air rights
Cross Braces
Infiltrated Debris
agronomy
20. 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
Deadend Manhole
Housing and Urban Development - Department of (HUD)
Absorption Capacity
21. Tamping or rolling of a material to achieve a surface or density that is able to support predicted loads.
Secondary Treatment
Compaction
National Park Service (NPS)
environmental design professions
22. 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.
Grease Trap
Grade
Lateral Sewer
Angle of Repose
23. A type of easement granting permission to a constructor or developer to build over a street or structure.
Baluster
air rights
Laundering Weir
Grade
24. Downstream opening or discharge end of a pipe - culvert - or canal.
National Park Service (NPS)
Outlet
Retention
built environment
25. In landscape architecture - a study of the potential cost of site purchase - demolition and improvement in comparison to the income or other benefit to be derived from site development.
Selector
cost-benefit analysis
Caisson
City Beautiful Movement
26. Shoring members placed across a trench to hold other horizontal and vertical shoring members in place.
agronomy
reclamation
Cross Braces
Caisson
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.
drainage
Stratification
Gravity Flow
Collection Main
28. 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
Earth Shift
Combined Sewer
Adsorption
Outlet
29. The used household water and watercarried solids that flow in sewers to a wastewater treatment plant. The preferred term is WASTEWATER.
Artesian
Sewage
Wasteline Cleanout
Cross Braces
30. The upper surface of the zone of saturation of groundwater in an unconfined aquifer.
Rubble - Coursed
Water Table
Combined Sewer
Invert
31. A large pipe to which a series of smaller pipes are connected. Also called a HEADER.
Manifold
Surcharge Manhole
Potable Water
Wasteline Cleanout
32. A road laid through a garden or park-like landscape - usually with median and roadside plantings.
Manhole Vents
Collection System
parkway
built environment
33. 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.
Sedimentation Basin
Council of Landscape Architecture Registration Boards (CLARB)
CADD
Equalizing Basin
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
landscape
Invert
Sanitary Sewer
scenic easement
35. A capped opening in a building lateral -usually located on the property line - through which the pipelines can be cleaned.
Runoff
Terminal Manhole
Housing and Urban Development - Department of (HUD)
Lateral Cleanout
36. In zoning - a housing or commercial development composed of individual units that are regulated as a whole.
Grade
planned unit development (PUD)
natural resources
Riprap
37. A small box-like structure that contains valves used to regulate flows.
Vault
Combined System
Cistern
Storm Collection System
38. 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
planned unit development (PUD)
Absorption Capacity
site plan
Balustrade
39. 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.
B T U
Wastewater Collection System
grade
Seasonal Water Table
40. Masonry composed of roughly shaped stones - well bonded and brought at irregular intervals vertically to discontinuous but approximately level beds or courses.
Storm Runoff
ground water
Rubble - Random
Caisson
41. Downward movement of the soil or of a structure which it supports
Nonpotable
Settlement
Groundwater
Aeration
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.
Soil Displacement
Clear Well
Main Sewer
parkway
43. The creative illustration - planning and specification of space for the greatest possible amount of harmony - utility - value and beauty.
topography
Sanitary Sewer
open space
design
44. A pipe or conduit that carries wastewater or drainage water. The term 'collection line' is often used also.
Newel Post
Manifold
Sewer
Sewer Main
45. The force that resists the separation of two bodies in contact.
planned unit development (PUD)
master plan
Nonpotable
Adhesion
46. A manhole which fills and allows raw wastewater to flow out onto the street or ground.
Sewage
Bearing
Overflow Manhole
reclamation
47. 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.
land use
landscape architecture registration
Lift Station
Curb inlet
48. Material used to fill in a trench or excavation
Backfill
Sanitary Sewer
Housing and Urban Development - Department of (HUD)
Manhole
49. 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.
landscape architect
Compaction Test
open space
Hydrostatic Pressure
50. A manhole located at the upstream end of a sewer and having no inlet pipe. Also called a DEADEND MANHOLE.
Rubble - Random
Storm Runoff
Imported Backfill
Terminal Manhole
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