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Civil Engineering Vocab
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1. A downspout or pipe installed to drain a roof gutter to a storm drain or other means of disposal.
easement
land trust
Roof Leader
Seasonal Water Table
2. A special valve with a hinged disc or flap that opens in the direction of normal flow and is forced shut when flows attempt to go in the reverse or opposite direction of normal flows.
Check Valve
Shear Wall
Compaction
Absorption
3. 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
Sediment
environmental inventory
Roof Leader
Selector
4. Precipitation which has been rendered (made) acidic by airborne pollutants.
Angle of Repose
Acid Rain
land trust
Impermeable
5. The natural elements with which landscape architects work - such as plant materials and the soil itself.
softscape
Artesian
Admixture
Rubble - Coursed
6. A wall that supports any vertical load in addition to its own weight.
Grade
Settlement
Sewer
Bearing Wall
7. The condition of water or soil which contains a sufficient amount of acid substances to lower the pH below 7.0.
Surcharge Manhole
Select Backfill
Artesian
Acidic
8. 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
Subsidence
Sedimentation Basin
Baffle
Aeration
9. A professional society that represents landscape architects in the United States and Canada and seeks to better the practice and understanding of landscape architecture through education - research - state registration and other programs.
American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)
environmental impact
Admixture
reclamation
10. 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
natural resources
Surcharge Manhole
building codes
11. 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.
Saturated Soil
Combined Wastewater
cost-benefit analysis
Sewer
12. 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.
cost-benefit analysis
Wasteline Vent
Water Table
Terminal Manhole
13. 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.
Vault
Forest Service
Subsidence
Axial Load
14. A capped opening in a building lateral -usually located on the property line - through which the pipelines can be cleaned.
Lateral Cleanout
manipulation of space
Trunk System
Curb Stop
15. A small tank (usually covered) or a storage facility used to store water for a home or farm. Often used to store rainwater.
Cistern
new town
Surface Runoff
Sedimentation
16. A system of major sewers serving as transporting lines and not as local or lateral sewers.
master plan
Trunk System
Walers
easement
17. Railing support at landings or other breaks in the stairs. If an angle post projects beyond the bottom of the strings - the ornamental detail formed at the bottom of the post is called the drop.
Supersaturated
environmental inventory
Angle Post
landscape contractor
18. 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.
Axial Load
natural resources
Two-Way Cleanout
Forest Service
19. 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.
Seasonal Water Table
easement
Storm Sewer
topography
20. An authorization issued by a government agency allowing construction of a project according to approved plans and specifications.
open space
building (construction) permit
multiple use
Lateral Sewer
21. 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
Retention
Sanitary Sewer
Storm Water
22. 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.'
B T U
Elevation
Surcharge Manhole
easement
23. 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
Backfill
Handhole Trap
Soil Displacement
Lateral Break
24. 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
Oxidation Ditch
Subsidence
Absorption Capacity
cost-benefit analysis
25. A break in a lateral pipe somewhere between the sewer main and the building connection.
Absorption Capacity
Lateral Break
Invert
grade
26. 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
Catch Basin
Wastewater Treatment Plant
Collection System
Lift Station
27. Clarifier - Settling Tank. A tank or basin in which wastewater is held for a period of time during which the heavier solids settle to the bottom and the lighter materials float to the water surface.
manipulation of space
Surcharge
air rights
Sedimentation Basin
28. A sewer designed to carry both sanitary wastewaters and storm or surface water runoff.
Absorption Capacity
Combined System
Soil Displacement
Curb Stop
29. The man-made creation of or alterations to a specific area - including its natural resources. This is in contrast to the 'natural environment.'
built environment
Bearing Wall
new town
Terminal Manhole
30. 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
Acidic
Activated Sludge Process
Subsidence
Service Pipe
31. The form of the land. Contour lines are map lines connecting points of the same ground elevation and are used to depict and measure slope and drainage. Spot elevations are points of a specific elevation.
Cross Braces
Permeability
contour
Infiltrated Debris
32. The science and management of land - especially rural - agricultural land.
conservation plan
agronomy
Easement
planning
33. The creative illustration - planning and specification of space for the greatest possible amount of harmony - utility - value and beauty.
Acidic
Lift Station
Laundering Weir
design
34. 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.
Permeability
Select Bedding
open space
Runoff
35. A branch of biology dealing with the relationship between living things and their environment.
landscape
Groundwater
ecology
easement
36. Vertical member supporting the railing.
Baluster
Curb inlet
American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)
Sedimentation
37. A pipe or conduit that carries wastewater or drainage water. The term 'collection line' is often used also.
Storm Water Inlet
Sewer
Interceptor
Backfill
38. A legal means of protecting beautiful views and associated aesthetic quality along a site by restricting change in existing features without government approval.
scenic easement
Bedding
Saturated Soil
Lateral Break
39. A sewer pipe to which building laterals are connected. Also called a COLLECTION MAIN.
Riprap
Select Backfill
Sewer Main
landscape architecture
40. A small box-like structure that contains valves used to regulate flows.
design
Manhole Vents
Cross Braces
Vault
41. 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.
Aquifer
Lift Station
Equalizing Basin
Supersaturated
42. Any attempt to restore to beneficial use land that has lost its fertility and stability; most often applies to mining reclamation - such as the restoration of strip mines and quarries.
reclamation
Trunk Sewer
Outlet
conservation
43. In zoning - a housing or commercial development composed of individual units that are regulated as a whole.
Infiltrated Debris
Rubble - Coursed
Laundering Weir
planned unit development (PUD)
44. 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.
Combined System
view
Rubble - Random
Stratification
45. Masonry composed of roughly shaped stones fitting approximately on level beds - well bonded and brought at vertical intervals to continuous level beds of courses.
hardscape
Combined Sewer
landscape contractor
Rubble - Coursed
46. 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.
Activated Sludge Process
Hydrostatic Pressure
hardscape
Trunk Sewer
47. The linear or a real dimension over which a higher component transmits load to a lower component
Bearing
Deadend Manhole
Manhole
Lift Station
48. 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.
landscape architecture registration
land trust
Compaction
Roof Leader
49. Any method of determining the weight a compacted material is able to support without damage or displacement. Usually stated in pounds per square foot.
Walers
Sediment
Earth Shift
Compaction Test
50. The prepared and compacted base on which a manhole is constructed.
CADD
Manhole Bedding
Forest Service
Absorption