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Civil Engineering Vocab
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1. 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
Newel Post
Select Backfill
Potable Water
2. Record of an area's natural and man-made resources - including vegetation - animal life - geological characteristics and mankind's presence in such forms as housing - highways and even hazardous wastes.
environmental inventory
Mail Line
Baluster
Acid Rain
3. 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.
cost-benefit analysis
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Caisson
Select Bedding
4. Regulations specifying the type of construction methods and materials that are allowable on a project.
Day Tank
building codes
Soil Displacement
Permeability
5. A road laid through a garden or park-like landscape - usually with median and roadside plantings.
Combined Sewer
Adsorption
parkway
site plan
6. 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).
Handhole Trap
Surcharge Manhole
Absorption
ground water
7. 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
Newel Post
Surface Runoff
contour
Subsidence
8. A trained builder or installer of landscapes - retained to implement the plans of landscape architects.
Laundering Weir
landscape contractor
Angle of Repose
Wastewater
9. Shoring members placed across a trench to hold other horizontal and vertical shoring members in place.
Bearing
built environment
Balustrade
Cross Braces
10. 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.
open space
Rubble - Random
Deadend Manhole
Artesian
11. A dimensioned drawing indicating the form of an existing area and the physical objects existing in it and those to be built or installed upon it.
Deadend Manhole
Clear Well
site plan
Trunk Sewer
12. A wall that supports any vertical load in addition to its own weight.
Sanitary Sewer
Bearing Wall
Invert
new town
13. A device made of pipe fittings used to prevent sewer gases escaping from the branch or lateral sewer from entering a building sewer.
Trunk System
planned unit development (PUD)
Handhole Trap
Stratification
14. American Society for Testing and Materials
Admixture
Acid Rain
A S T M
Surcharge
15. A sewer designed to carry both sanitary wastewaters and storm or surface water runoff.
Combined System
Soil Displacement
Permeability
Check Valve
16. An opening or point of access in a building wastewater pipe system for rodding or snake operation.
Storm Sewer
manipulation of space
Wasteline Cleanout
open space
17. A tank used to store a chemical solution of known concentration for feed to a chemical feeder. A day tank usually stores sufficient chemical solution to properly treat the water being treated for at least one day. Also called an AGE TANK.
Seasonal Water Table
scenic easement
Day Tank
Storm Water Inlet
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.
Sewer Main
Sewage
Earth Shift
Curb Stop
19. The height to which something is elevated - such as the height above sea level.
Day Tank
Elevation
Hydrostatic Pressure
Wastewater Collection System
20. 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.
Forest Service
Adhesion
Cross Braces
Retention
21. 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.
Stratification
Walers
Storm Water Inlet
Caisson
22. The lay of the land - particularly its slope and drainage patterns; the science of drawing maps and charts or otherwise representing the surface features of a region or site - including its natural and man-made features.
Stratification
topography
Curb Stop
Combined Wastewater
23. 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.
Estimated Flow
Acidic
Lateral Break
Grade
24. A strip of unspoiled - often treed - agricultural or other outlying land used to separate or ring urban areas.
greenbelt
land use
Curb inlet
Manhole Vents
25. A pipe or conduit that carries wastewater or drainage water. The term 'collection line' is often used also.
Sewer
Backfill
Pump Station
softscape
26. 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.'
Runoff
Combined System
Trunk System
Manhole
27. The prepared and compacted base on which a manhole is constructed.
Terminal Manhole
Manhole Bedding
agronomy
Select Backfill
28. The conversion of large solid particles of sludge into very fine particles which either dissolve or remain suspended in wastewater.
Liquefaction
Activated Sludge Process
Lateral Break
Rubble - Random
29. A branch of biology dealing with the relationship between living things and their environment.
Surcharge Manhole
national park
ecology
Curb inlet
30. The pipeline extending from the water main to the building served or to the consumer's system.
environmental inventory
reclamation
Roof Leader
Service Pipe
31. 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
Vault
conservation
Aeration
Newel Post
32. 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.
Wasteline Vent
ecology
Wastewater Treatment Plant
Easement
33. Soil that cannot absorb any more liquid. The interstices or void spaces in the soil are filled with water to the point at which runoff occurs.
Sedimentation Basin
Groundwater
Absorption Capacity
Saturated Soil
34. Sand - silt - gravel and rocks carried or washed into a collection system by infiltration water flows.
Infiltrated Debris
Groundwater
Sewer Main
Mail Line
35. A line from which heights and depths are calculated or measured. Also called a datum plane or a datum level.
International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA)
Storm Water Inlet
Aquifer
Datum Line
36. In the United States - a certification of individuals entitled to use the term 'landscape architect' or to practice landscape architecture or both - by means of examination and required degree and experience criteria.
landscape architecture registration
Acidic
scenic easement
Curb Stop
37. Movement of soil from one place to another. Generally accompanies SILTING of a sewer system. Where infiltration is taking place and silt is carried into a sewer system - such silt or soil is removed from the ground around the sewer pipe and the resul
Wastewater Facilities
Lateral Break
Soil Displacement
Potable Water
38. 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
Septic Tank
Subsidence
Pump Station
Baffle
39. 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.
Combined Sewer
Bedding
Curb inlet
parkway
40. A railing composed of balusters capped by a handrail.
Supersaturated
National Park Service (NPS)
Balustrade
easement
41. 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
Forest Service
Collection System
parkway
Terminal Manhole
42. Water that may contain objectionable pollution - contamination - minerals - or infective agents and is considered unsafe and/or unpalatable for drinking.
scenic easement
Nonpotable
Wastewater Facilities
environmental impact
43. 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
Grade
Soil Displacement
Rubble - Ordinary
Surcharge
44. The force that resists the separation of two bodies in contact.
Combined System
National Park Service (NPS)
Select Bedding
Adhesion
45. Material used in backfilling of an excavation - selected for desirable compaction or other characteristics.
Deadend Manhole
historic preservation
B T U
Select Backfill
46. A small box-like structure that contains valves used to regulate flows.
Vault
Saturated Soil
Surcharge Manhole
Outlet
47. 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.
Absorption Capacity
Settlement
natural resources
Artesian
48. The pipes - conduits - structures - equipment - and processes required to collect - convey - and treat domestic and industrial wastes - and dispose of the effluent and sludge.
Collection Main
Roof Leader
Wastewater Facilities
reclamation
49. 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
Absorption
Artificial Groundwater Table
Newel Post
Manhole
50. Any designated use or activity on a piece of land.
land use
softscape
natural resources
Baluster