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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.






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






3. A sewer designed to carry both sanitary wastewaters and storm or surface water runoff.






4. Landscape architecture - (civil) engineering - urban planning and architecture. Agronomy is also often included in this group.






5. A layer - usually of concrete or mortar - for providing continuous support to such items as bricks - slabs - pipes.






6. A trained builder or installer of landscapes - retained to implement the plans of landscape architects.






7. The conversion of large solid particles of sludge into very fine particles which either dissolve or remain suspended in wastewater.






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.






9. The used household water and watercarried solids that flow in sewers to a wastewater treatment plant. The preferred term is WASTEWATER.






10. The movement of water through very small spaces due to molecular forces.






11. A sewer designed to carry both sanitary wastewaters and storm or surface water runoff.






12. Masonry composed of irregularly shaped stones laid without regularity of coursing - but well bonded.






13. A pipe or conduit that carries wastewater or drainage water. The term 'collection line' is often used also.






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






15. A small box-like structure that contains valves used to regulate flows.






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.






17. A water treatment process in which solid particles settle out of the water being treated in a large clarifier or sedimentation basin.






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.






19. Water that does not contain objectionable pollution - contamination - minerals - or infective agents and is considered satisfactory for drinking.






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.






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.






22. Water that may contain objectionable pollution - contamination - minerals - or infective agents and is considered unsafe and/or unpalatable for drinking.






23. Post at which the railing terminates at each floor level.






24. In landscape architecture - an essential sheet showing site boundaries and significant site features - used as a basis for subsequent plan development.






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.






26. A manhole located at the upstream end of a sewer and having no inlet pipe. Also called a DEADEND MANHOLE.






27. The pipeline extending from the water main to the building served or to the consumer's system.






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.






29. A mixture of storm or surface runoff and other wastewater such as domestic or industrial 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.






31. The legal grant of right-of-use to an area of designated private property.






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






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.






34. The excess water running off from the surface of a drainage area during and immediately after a period of rain. See STORM RUNOFF.






35. A strip of unspoiled - often treed - agricultural or other outlying land used to separate or ring urban areas.






36. Regulations specifying the type of construction methods and materials that are allowable on a project.






37. A large - public park - often highly scenic and isolated belonging to and operated by the federal government.






38. A break in a lateral pipe somewhere between the sewer main and the building connection.






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.






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.






41. A sewer pipe to which building laterals are connected. Also called a COLLECTION MAIN.






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.






43. A large pipe to which a series of smaller pipes are connected. Also called a HEADER.






44. A line from which heights and depths are calculated or measured. Also called a datum plane or a datum level.






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






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






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.






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.






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.






50. A multinational organization of landscape architects whose purpose is the promotion of landscape design and planning.