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Civil Engineering Vocab
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1. 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 Backfill
Equalizing Basin
Council of Landscape Architecture Registration Boards (CLARB)
parkway
2. 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
Angle of Repose
Newel Post
Lateral Cleanout
3. A collection pipe to which building laterals are connected.
Collection Main
Storm Runoff
Outlet
Subsidence
4. 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.
Stratification
Storm Water
Impermeable
Admixture
5. Any method of determining the weight a compacted material is able to support without damage or displacement. Usually stated in pounds per square foot.
contour
Seasonal Water Table
City Beautiful Movement
Compaction Test
6. Precipitation which has been rendered (made) acidic by airborne pollutants.
site plan
conservation
Acid Rain
Vault
7. An authorization issued by a government agency allowing construction of a project according to approved plans and specifications.
open space
Walers
Sanitary Sewer
building (construction) permit
8. A manhole in which the rate of the water entering is greater than the capacity of the outlet under gravity flow conditions. When the water in the manhole rises above the top of the outlet pipe - the manhole is said to be 'surcharged.'
Liquefaction
Surcharge Manhole
Manhole Bedding
Trunk System
9. 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
Roof Leader
Rubble - Ordinary
Collection System
Baluster
10. A device made of pipe fittings used to prevent sewer gases escaping from the branch or lateral sewer from entering a building sewer.
Wasteline Vent
Baluster
Handhole Trap
Stratification
11. A water treatment process in which solid particles settle out of the water being treated in a large clarifier or sedimentation basin.
site plan
Sedimentation
Two-Way Cleanout
Lift Station
12. A natural underground layer of porous - waterbearing materials (sand - gravel) usually capable of yielding a large amount or supply of water.
Wasteline Cleanout
site plan
landscape architect
Aquifer
13. The pipe system for collecting and carrying water and watercarried wastes from domestic and industrial sources to a wastewater treatment plant.
Catch Basin
Wastewater Collection System
environmental inventory
zoning
14. The natural elements with which landscape architects work - such as plant materials and the soil itself.
Council of Landscape Architecture Registration Boards (CLARB)
Interconnector
site plan
softscape
15. 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
Secondary Treatment
Surcharge
Artificial Groundwater Table
Gravity Flow
16. A record of each person involved in the handling and possession of a sample from the person who collected the sample to the person who analyzed the sample in the laboratory and to the person who witnessed disposal of the sample.
Potable Water
Chain of Custody
softscape
Curb Stop
17. 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.
master plan
ecology
Wastewater
Roof Leader
18. 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.
topography
Grease Trap
Main Sewer
Impermeable
19. A layer - usually of concrete or mortar - for providing continuous support to such items as bricks - slabs - pipes.
Shear Wall
Infiltrated Debris
Equalizing Basin
Bedding
20. 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
Surcharge
Roof Leader
Hydrostatic Pressure
multiple use
21. 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
Hydrostatic Pressure
Surface Runoff
Permeability
Soil Displacement
22. A U.S. government agency responsible for developing and enforcing regulations that guide the use of land and natural resources.
Backfill
Trunk System
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Riprap
23. 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
Walers
Hydrostatic Pressure
natural resources
24. Federal agency responsible for producing and managing many federally-funded public service programs - especially those affecting housing and public spaces.
Newel Post
Housing and Urban Development - Department of (HUD)
Surface Runoff
Seasonal Water Table
25. 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.
greenbelt
land trust
Two-Way Cleanout
Equalizing Basin
26. An arrangement of pipes - equipment - devices - tanks and structures for treating wastewater and industrial wastes. A water pollution control plant.
Aquifer
Wastewater Treatment Plant
Bedding
Aeration
27. 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
Bedding
Wasteline Vent
Caisson
28. 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.
Sewer Main
Check Valve
cost-benefit analysis
Stratification
29. American Society for Testing and Materials
A S T M
Sewer Main
Grade
agronomy
30. Material used for backfilling a trench or excavation which was not the original material removed during excavation. This is a common practice where tests on the original material show it to have poor compactability or load capacity. Also called BORRO
Cistern
Imported Backfill
view
Combined Wastewater
31. Rain and snow water accumulated in the earth's porous rock.
Potable Water
Curb Stop
conservation
ground water
32. 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
open space
Adsorption
Council of Landscape Architecture Registration Boards (CLARB)
Water Table
33. A trained builder or installer of landscapes - retained to implement the plans of landscape architects.
Wastewater
Rubble - Random
Outlet
landscape contractor
34. A pipe or conduit that carries wastewater or drainage water. The term 'collection line' is often used also.
building codes
Surcharge
Sewer
Collection System
35. 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
base plan
planned unit development (PUD)
Combined Sewer
36. 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
Trunk Sewer
Absorption Capacity
cost-benefit analysis
Absorption
37. 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.
environmental impact
Absorption
Angle of Repose
Rubble - Random
38. 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.'
Aquifer
Storm Runoff
view
Lateral Sewer
39. 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
Mail Line
CADD
Two-Way Cleanout
40. A wall that resist horizontal forces applied in the plane of the wall.
Earth Shift
International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA)
topography
Shear Wall
41. Water that does not contain objectionable pollution - contamination - minerals - or infective agents and is considered satisfactory for drinking.
Angle Post
Potable Water
Wastewater
greenbelt
42. A small box-like structure that contains valves used to regulate flows.
Vault
Housing and Urban Development - Department of (HUD)
Deadend Manhole
Riprap
43. The science and management of land - especially rural - agricultural land.
Bearing
agronomy
Impermeable
manipulation of space
44. Landscape architecture - (civil) engineering - urban planning and architecture. Agronomy is also often included in this group.
Sediment
Easement
environmental design professions
Soil Pipe
45. 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
Sewage
Select Backfill
Saturated Soil
46. 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
Wastewater
Equalizing Basin
softscape
Oxidation Ditch
47. The excess water running off from the surface of a drainage area during and immediately after a period of rain. See STORM RUNOFF.
Artesian
landscape architect
Storm Water
Housing and Urban Development - Department of (HUD)
48. Narrowly defined - an extended view or prospect from a site which - many times - is as important as or more important than the site itself.
Shear Wall
view
Storm Water Inlet
Check Valve
49. 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.
Baffle
Interceptor
Grease Trap
Sedimentation
50. A manhole located at the upstream end of a sewer and having no inlet pipe. Also called a TERMINAL MANHOLE.
Interceptor
Angle Post
Deadend Manhole
Backfill
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