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Civil Engineering Vocab
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1. Precipitation which has been rendered (made) acidic by airborne pollutants.
ground water
Acid Rain
Compaction
Wastewater Facilities
2. A small tank (usually covered) or a storage facility used to store water for a home or farm. Often used to store rainwater.
open space
Sewer
Seasonal Water Table
Cistern
3. A layer - usually of concrete or mortar - for providing continuous support to such items as bricks - slabs - pipes.
Council of Landscape Architecture Registration Boards (CLARB)
landscape architecture registration
Bedding
natural resources
4. 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
Invert
Grease Trap
Capillary Action
5. A railing composed of balusters capped by a handrail.
Activated Sludge Process
Forest Service
Shear Wall
Balustrade
6. 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.
Day Tank
Grade
Housing and Urban Development - Department of (HUD)
Estimated Flow
7. 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
Easement
hardscape
Surcharge Manhole
Selector
8. The prepared and compacted base on which a manhole is constructed.
Admixture
Storm Collection System
Manhole Bedding
Grease Trap
9. 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
Trunk Sewer
scenic easement
Adsorption
Day Tank
10. Masonry composed of roughly shaped stones fitting approximately on level beds - well bonded and brought at vertical intervals to continuous level beds of courses.
Terminal Manhole
Catch Basin
Rubble - Coursed
Grade
11. 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
Chain of Custody
Aeration
Storm Water
Combined Sewer
12. The used household water and watercarried solids that flow in sewers to a wastewater treatment plant. The preferred term is WASTEWATER.
Sewage
drainage
Compaction Test
National Park Service (NPS)
13. 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
Combined Wastewater
Acidic
Soil Displacement
Angle Post
14. A downspout or pipe installed to drain a roof gutter to a storm drain or other means of disposal.
Roof Leader
environmental design professions
Rubble - Random
Wastewater
15. 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.
Baffle
Secondary Treatment
Groundwater
landscape
16. A branch of biology dealing with the relationship between living things and their environment.
Balustrade
drainage
ecology
Elevation
17. A U.S. government agency charged with administering vast areas of public land.
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
landscape architecture
Wasteline Cleanout
Chain of Custody
18. Solid material settled from suspension in a liquid.
Supersaturated
Service Pipe
Sediment
CADD
19. A strip of unspoiled - often treed - agricultural or other outlying land used to separate or ring urban areas.
Select Backfill
landscape architecture
greenbelt
grade
20. A device made of pipe fittings used to prevent sewer gases escaping from the branch or lateral sewer from entering a building sewer.
Handhole Trap
Soil Displacement
Acid Rain
International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA)
21. 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
Permeability
environmental impact
view
22. 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
Absorption Capacity
Shear Wall
view
Aeration
23. A structure made of concrete or other durable material to protect bare soil from erosion by splashing or falling water.
Collection Main
Splash Pad
Mail Line
Retention
24. Masonry composed of irregularly shaped stones laid without regularity of coursing - but well bonded.
Vault
Mail Line
Saturated Soil
Rubble - Ordinary
25. The illustration and description of problem-statements and large-scale design solutions that affect extensive areas of land; the anticipation of problems that will be encountered as human use and development of land continues.
A S T M
planned unit development (PUD)
planning
ground water
26. 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
open space
Soil Pipe
Surcharge
27. 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
Retention
Baffle
landscape contractor
Subsidence
28. 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.
Handhole Trap
Lift Station
master plan
Day Tank
29. The science and management of land - especially rural - agricultural land.
hardscape
agronomy
Water Table
Lateral Cleanout
30. A large pipe to which a series of smaller pipes are connected. Also called a HEADER.
Clear Well
Angle of Repose
Shear Wall
Manifold
31. 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.'
Retention
scenic easement
Angle of Repose
Sewer Main
32. Vertical member supporting the railing.
Manifold
multiple use
Baluster
Riprap
33. An arrangement of pipes - equipment - devices - tanks and structures for treating wastewater and industrial wastes. A water pollution control plant.
grade
hardscape
Wastewater Treatment Plant
Chain of Custody
34. An opening in pipes or sewers designed for rodding or working a snake into the pipe in either direction. Twoway cleanouts are most often found in building lateral pipes at or near a property line.
Oxidation Ditch
Gravity Flow
Two-Way Cleanout
Angle of Repose
35. 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).
Estimated Flow
Absorption
Terminal Manhole
building (construction) permit
36. The conversion of large solid particles of sludge into very fine particles which either dissolve or remain suspended in wastewater.
Earth Shift
landscape contractor
Liquefaction
Cross Braces
37. 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.
Runoff
Acid Rain
site plan
Caisson
38. 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.
reclamation
parkway
Chain of Custody
land trust
39. 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.
Datum Line
Main Sewer
B T U
open space
40. A wall that resist horizontal forces applied in the plane of the wall.
Supersaturated
Nonpotable
Chain of Custody
Shear Wall
41. 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
Wastewater
Artificial Groundwater Table
ecology
Combined System
42. A large - public park - often highly scenic and isolated belonging to and operated by the federal government.
CADD
national park
natural resources
zoning
43. 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
Combined Sewer
Sanitary Sewer
Baffle
planning
44. A groundwater table that has seasonal changes in depth or elevation.
Seasonal Water Table
base plan
A S T M
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
45. In zoning - a housing or commercial development composed of individual units that are regulated as a whole.
Main Sewer
Rubble - Coursed
Liquefaction
planned unit development (PUD)
46. A flat board or plate - deflector - guide or similar device constructed or placed in flowing water or slurry systems to cause more uniform flow velocities - to absorb energy - and to divert - guide - or agitate liquids (water - chemical solutions - s
Catch Basin
Wastewater Facilities
Baffle
Lateral Sewer
47. That part of rain or other precipitation that runs off the surface of a drainage area and does not enter the soil or the sewer system as inflow.
Curb Stop
Day Tank
Runoff
Datum Line
48. The amount of runoff that reaches the point of measurement within a relatively short period of time after the occurrence of a storm or other form of precipitation. Also called 'direct runoff.'
Rubble - Coursed
site plan
Storm Runoff
CADD
49. 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.
Lift Station
Rubble - Random
Absorption Capacity
grade
50. The oxidation ditch is a modified form of the activated sludge process. The ditch consists of two channels placed side by side and connected at the ends to produce one continuous loop of wastewater flow and a brush rotator assembly placed across the
Infiltrated Debris
Retention
Oxidation Ditch
Compaction Test