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1. The height to which something is elevated - such as the height above sea level.
American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)
Surface Runoff
Elevation
Adhesion
2. A structure or chamber which is usually sunk or lowered by digging from the inside. Used to gain access to the bottom of a stream or other body of water.
Caisson
Lateral Sewer
Two-Way Cleanout
Overflow Manhole
3. A large - public park - often highly scenic and isolated belonging to and operated by the federal government.
Forest Service
Artificial Groundwater Table
Backfill
national park
4. 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.
Select Bedding
Water Table
Equalizing Basin
Septic Tank
5. The lowest point of the channel inside a pipe - conduit - or canal.
Manhole Vents
Council of Landscape Architecture Registration Boards (CLARB)
Sedimentation Basin
Invert
6. Any method of determining the weight a compacted material is able to support without damage or displacement. Usually stated in pounds per square foot.
Combined Sewer
Grease Trap
Compaction Test
Vault
7. An authorization issued by a government agency allowing construction of a project according to approved plans and specifications.
building (construction) permit
Two-Way Cleanout
Vault
drainage
8. A rough guess of the amount of flow in a collection system. When greater accuracy is needed - flow could be computed using average or typical flow quantities. Even greater accuracy would result from metering or otherwise measuring the actual flow.
Laundering Weir
Estimated Flow
Datum Line
Mail Line
9. The linear or a real dimension over which a higher component transmits load to a lower component
Bearing
Seasonal Water Table
Interceptor
environmental inventory
10. Downstream opening or discharge end of a pipe - culvert - or canal.
Outlet
landscape
Two-Way Cleanout
Caisson
11. A sewer designed to carry both sanitary wastewaters and storm or surface water runoff.
Combined Sewer
Collection System
Curb inlet
reclamation
12. A biological wastewater treatment process which speeds up the decomposition of wastes in the wastewater being treated. Activated sludge is added to wastewater and the mixture (mixed liquor) is aerated and agitated. After some time in the aeration tan
Cistern
Activated Sludge Process
Earth Shift
Handhole Trap
13. 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
open space
Storm Sewer
natural resources
Riprap
14. 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.
Hydrostatic Pressure
historic preservation
Main Sewer
designed landscape
15. 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
Stratification
Secondary Treatment
Lateral Cleanout
Newel Post
16. Water that does not contain objectionable pollution - contamination - minerals - or infective agents and is considered satisfactory for drinking.
Retention
Caisson
view
Potable Water
17. A community's used water and water carried solids (including used water from industrial processes) that flow to a treatment plant. Storm water - surface water - and groundwater infiltration also may be included in the wastewater that enters a wastewa
Bearing
Wastewater
Surface Runoff
Backfill
18. 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.
Earth Shift
Council of Landscape Architecture Registration Boards (CLARB)
Curb Stop
Capillary Action
19. A sewer pipe to which building laterals are connected. Also called a COLLECTION MAIN.
Sewer Main
Nonpotable
Combined Sewer
National Park Service (NPS)
20. 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.
Storm Collection System
Impermeable
Supersaturated
Manhole
21. A break in a lateral pipe somewhere between the sewer main and the building connection.
Impermeable
Lateral Break
Compaction Test
Wastewater Facilities
22. 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.
Storm Sewer
Selector
Walers
building codes
23. A line from which heights and depths are calculated or measured. Also called a datum plane or a datum level.
conservation plan
hardscape
Datum Line
Weir
24. 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.
landscape architecture registration
Acidic
planned unit development (PUD)
Interceptor
25. The change to an area's natural resources - including animal and plant life - resulting from use by man. Some projects may require conducting of an 'environmental impact study' before development can proceed.
Sewer
environmental impact
planned unit development (PUD)
parkway
26. 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.
Walers
Shear Wall
natural resources
Catch Basin
27. 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
Sedimentation
agronomy
ecology
Selector
28. One or a series of oneinch diameter holes through a manhole lid for purposes of venting dangerous gases found in sewers.
building (construction) permit
Manhole Vents
Newel Post
Water Table
29. 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.
Storm Water Inlet
Forest Service
greenbelt
Stratification
30. A natural underground layer of porous - waterbearing materials (sand - gravel) usually capable of yielding a large amount or supply of water.
City Beautiful Movement
Outlet
Bearing
Aquifer
31. 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.
Artesian
ecology
Admixture
softscape
32. Masonry composed of roughly shaped stones fitting approximately on level beds - well bonded and brought at vertical intervals to continuous level beds of courses.
Collection System
Rubble - Coursed
Acid Rain
multiple use
33. A manhole located at the upstream end of a sewer and having no inlet pipe. Also called a DEADEND MANHOLE.
planned unit development (PUD)
Lateral Break
Wastewater Facilities
Terminal Manhole
34. A material - other than aggregate - cementitious material or water - added in small quantities to the mix in order to produce some (desired) modifications - either to the properties of the mix or of the hardened product.
scenic easement
Handhole Trap
Baluster
Admixture
35. Load applied along or parallel to and concentric with the primary axis
Terminal Manhole
manipulation of space
Settlement
Axial Load
36. Harmonious use of the land for more than one purpose; not necessarily the combination of uses that will yield the highest economic return - e.g. - a mix of residential and commercial developments in the same area.
Estimated Flow
Interceptor
easement
multiple use
37. 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.
Collection System
landscape
Curb inlet
Infiltrated Debris
38. 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.'
Lateral Cleanout
Angle of Repose
Compaction Test
Sedimentation
39. Sedimentation basin overflow weir. A plate with Vnotches along the top to ensure a uniform flow rate and avoid shortcircuiting.
Manifold
Angle of Repose
Laundering Weir
national park
40. The property of a material or soil that permits considerable movement of water through it when it is saturated.
Permeability
Imported Backfill
Artificial Groundwater Table
master plan
41. An opening or point of access in a building wastewater pipe system for rodding or snake operation.
Wasteline Cleanout
American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)
Day Tank
Combined System
42. Narrowly defined - the amount of countryside and/or city that can be taken in at a glance. Also - an area of land or water taken in the aggregate.
Main Sewer
landscape
Check Valve
Wasteline Vent
43. The pipe system for collecting and carrying water and watercarried wastes from domestic and industrial sources to a wastewater treatment plant.
Wastewater Collection System
Soil Pipe
Newel Post
Supersaturated
44. A wall that resist horizontal forces applied in the plane of the wall.
Estimated Flow
Shear Wall
Grease Trap
Newel Post
45. Water or wastewater flowing from a higher elevation to a lower elevation due to the force of gravity. The water does not flow due to energy provided by a pump. Wherever possible - wastewater collection systems are designed to use the force of gravity
Gravity Flow
view
Shear Wall
open space
46. Material used in backfilling of an excavation - selected for desirable compaction or other characteristics.
planned unit development (PUD)
Select Backfill
Infiltrated Debris
Collection Main
47. 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.
Storm Sewer
Stratification
Earth Shift
Wasteline Cleanout
48. Masonry composed of roughly shaped stones - well bonded and brought at irregular intervals vertically to discontinuous but approximately level beds or courses.
Retention
Rubble - Random
landscape architecture registration
Water Table
49. A manhole which fills and allows raw wastewater to flow out onto the street or ground.
Sewer
Adsorption
Overflow Manhole
Laundering Weir
50. 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.
building codes
Forest Service
Service Pipe
Impermeable
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