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Civil Engineering Vocab
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1. 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.
Manhole Vents
Curb inlet
Activated Sludge Process
National Park Service (NPS)
2. A wall or plate placed in an open channel and used to measure the flow of water. The depth of the flow over the weir can be used to calculate the flow rate - or a chart or conversion table may be used to convert depth to flow. A wall or obstruction u
Wastewater Treatment Plant
Easement
Weir
Council of Landscape Architecture Registration Boards (CLARB)
3. A sewer designed to carry both sanitary wastewaters and storm or surface water runoff.
zoning
softscape
topography
Combined Sewer
4. Landscape architecture - (civil) engineering - urban planning and architecture. Agronomy is also often included in this group.
greenbelt
environmental design professions
planned unit development (PUD)
Wastewater Facilities
5. A layer - usually of concrete or mortar - for providing continuous support to such items as bricks - slabs - pipes.
Bedding
Activated Sludge Process
planned unit development (PUD)
Potable Water
6. A trained builder or installer of landscapes - retained to implement the plans of landscape architects.
National Park Service (NPS)
landscape contractor
drainage
landscape architecture registration
7. The conversion of large solid particles of sludge into very fine particles which either dissolve or remain suspended in wastewater.
Combined System
Shear Wall
Liquefaction
Council of Landscape Architecture Registration Boards (CLARB)
8. 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.
Earth Shift
environmental inventory
Artesian
Oxidation Ditch
9. The used household water and watercarried solids that flow in sewers to a wastewater treatment plant. The preferred term is WASTEWATER.
Trunk Sewer
Sewage
Lateral Break
Terminal Manhole
10. The movement of water through very small spaces due to molecular forces.
Capillary Action
Infiltrated Debris
open space
landscape architecture
11. A sewer designed to carry both sanitary wastewaters and storm or surface water runoff.
Retention
Lateral Cleanout
Combined System
A S T M
12. Masonry composed of irregularly shaped stones laid without regularity of coursing - but well bonded.
Settlement
contour
Rubble - Ordinary
Lateral Break
13. A pipe or conduit that carries wastewater or drainage water. The term 'collection line' is often used also.
Clear Well
Sewer
Elevation
Retention
14. 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
Surcharge Manhole
scenic easement
ecology
Imported Backfill
15. A small box-like structure that contains valves used to regulate flows.
Angle of Repose
building (construction) permit
American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)
Vault
16. 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.
Acid Rain
Storm Water Inlet
Equalizing Basin
land use
17. A water treatment process in which solid particles settle out of the water being treated in a large clarifier or sedimentation basin.
landscape
Hydrostatic Pressure
Liquefaction
Sedimentation
18. The protection - improvement and use of natural resources according to principles that will assure the highest economic or social benefits for people and the environment now and in the future.
Combined Wastewater
building codes
environmental impact
conservation
19. Water that does not contain objectionable pollution - contamination - minerals - or infective agents and is considered satisfactory for drinking.
Soil Pipe
Compaction Test
Aeration
Potable Water
20. 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.
Artesian
Cistern
Absorption Capacity
planning
21. 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.
Sediment
Activated Sludge Process
Hydrostatic Pressure
Settlement
22. Water that may contain objectionable pollution - contamination - minerals - or infective agents and is considered unsafe and/or unpalatable for drinking.
Nonpotable
Surcharge Manhole
Sewage
Manifold
23. Post at which the railing terminates at each floor level.
Curb inlet
Collection System
Gravity Flow
Newel Post
24. In landscape architecture - an essential sheet showing site boundaries and significant site features - used as a basis for subsequent plan development.
Aeration
landscape architect
base plan
Easement
25. 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.
Absorption
Handhole Trap
site plan
Artesian
26. A manhole located at the upstream end of a sewer and having no inlet pipe. Also called a DEADEND MANHOLE.
Settlement
ecology
Terminal Manhole
Sedimentation
27. The pipeline extending from the water main to the building served or to the consumer's system.
Impermeable
master plan
Wastewater Collection System
Service Pipe
28. In landscape architecture - the organization of areas of land for specific aesthetic or functional purposes. This can range from creating small backyard patios to huge urban plazas.
Combined Wastewater
Invert
Manifold
manipulation of space
29. A mixture of storm or surface runoff and other wastewater such as domestic or industrial wastewater.
Sewage
Surcharge
Lateral Sewer
Combined Wastewater
30. Narrowly defined - an extended view or prospect from a site which - many times - is as important as or more important than the site itself.
Manhole Vents
view
Storm Sewer
Baffle
31. The legal grant of right-of-use to an area of designated private property.
easement
topography
Axial Load
A S T M
32. 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
Grade
master plan
Wastewater
Angle of Repose
33. Masonry composed of roughly shaped stones fitting approximately on level beds - well bonded and brought at vertical intervals to continuous level beds of courses.
softscape
Manhole Vents
National Park Service (NPS)
Rubble - Coursed
34. The excess water running off from the surface of a drainage area during and immediately after a period of rain. See STORM RUNOFF.
Water Table
Handhole Trap
Storm Water
Outlet
35. A strip of unspoiled - often treed - agricultural or other outlying land used to separate or ring urban areas.
Manhole Vents
Council of Landscape Architecture Registration Boards (CLARB)
greenbelt
Forest Service
36. Regulations specifying the type of construction methods and materials that are allowable on a project.
Two-Way Cleanout
Main Sewer
Vault
building codes
37. A large - public park - often highly scenic and isolated belonging to and operated by the federal government.
Lateral Break
Outlet
Gravity Flow
national park
38. A break in a lateral pipe somewhere between the sewer main and the building connection.
Caisson
Combined System
building codes
Lateral Break
39. 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.
land use
conservation plan
CADD
Two-Way Cleanout
40. 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)
softscape
Backfill
Caisson
41. A sewer pipe to which building laterals are connected. Also called a COLLECTION MAIN.
planned unit development (PUD)
Sewer Main
Mail Line
Sanitary Sewer
42. 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.
Council of Landscape Architecture Registration Boards (CLARB)
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
contour
Estimated Flow
43. A large pipe to which a series of smaller pipes are connected. Also called a HEADER.
Chain of Custody
Manifold
design
American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)
44. A line from which heights and depths are calculated or measured. Also called a datum plane or a datum level.
Acidic
Rubble - Coursed
Datum Line
Storm Water Inlet
45. 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
Bearing Wall
cost-benefit analysis
Surcharge
environmental inventory
46. 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
National Park Service (NPS)
Sewer
landscape architecture
Collection Main
47. 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.
environmental design professions
land trust
historic preservation
Acid Rain
48. 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.
Infiltrated Debris
Stratification
Compaction Test
Settlement
49. 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.
Check Valve
Overflow Manhole
Forest Service
Manhole Vents
50. A multinational organization of landscape architects whose purpose is the promotion of landscape design and planning.
Impermeable
Adsorption
CADD
International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA)