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Civil Engineering Vocab
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1. A wastewater pumping station that lifts the wastewater to a higher elevation when continuing the sewer at reasonable slopes would involve excessive depths of trench. Also - an installation of pumps that raise wastewater from areas too low to drain in
Lift Station
Storm Collection System
Artificial Groundwater Table
air rights
2. Water that does not contain objectionable pollution - contamination - minerals - or infective agents and is considered satisfactory for drinking.
Potable Water
landscape contractor
Main Sewer
Adsorption
3. 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.
Stratification
Wasteline Vent
Admixture
environmental inventory
4. The movement of water through very small spaces due to molecular forces.
Catch Basin
Acidic
Capillary Action
Day Tank
5. A wall that resist horizontal forces applied in the plane of the wall.
Hydrostatic Pressure
Shear Wall
Wasteline Vent
Elevation
6. That part of the precipitation falling on a drainage area which does not escape as surface stream flow during a given period. It is the difference between total precipitation and total runoff during the period - and represents evaporation - transpira
Seasonal Water Table
Retention
Soil Displacement
Absorption Capacity
7. 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.
Backfill
Main Sewer
environmental impact
parkway
8. A device that admits surface waters to the storm water drainage system. Also see CURB INLET and CATCH BASIN.
greenbelt
Storm Sewer
Storm Water Inlet
Gravity Flow
9. 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.
landscape
agronomy
Two-Way Cleanout
Roof Leader
10. 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
Rubble - Ordinary
Select Bedding
Wastewater
Combined Sewer
11. 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).
planning
Absorption
Two-Way Cleanout
cost-benefit analysis
12. An authorization issued by a government agency allowing construction of a project according to approved plans and specifications.
drainage
landscape contractor
building (construction) permit
Catch Basin
13. The science and management of land - especially rural - agricultural land.
agronomy
Retention
landscape architecture registration
Check Valve
14. The property of a material or soil that permits considerable movement of water through it when it is saturated.
Supersaturated
Permeability
landscape
view
15. A plan for conserving or protecting various natural or manufactured resources. Such a plan is used as a management tool in making decisions regarding soil - water - vegetation - manufactured objects and other resources at a particular site.
Backfill
softscape
Rubble - Coursed
conservation plan
16. Masonry composed of roughly shaped stones - well bonded and brought at irregular intervals vertically to discontinuous but approximately level beds or courses.
view
Rubble - Random
Nonpotable
base plan
17. The condition of water or soil which contains a sufficient amount of acid substances to lower the pH below 7.0.
Select Bedding
Shear Wall
Acidic
Wasteline Vent
18. 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
Deadend Manhole
Mail Line
softscape
19. Solid material settled from suspension in a liquid.
Housing and Urban Development - Department of (HUD)
Sediment
drainage
Council of Landscape Architecture Registration Boards (CLARB)
20. A line from which heights and depths are calculated or measured. Also called a datum plane or a datum level.
Datum Line
Wasteline Cleanout
Wastewater Treatment Plant
softscape
21. 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.
Earth Shift
Main Sewer
Permeability
Trunk Sewer
22. An agency of the U.S. Department of the Interior charged with the planning and administration of all parks and monuments in the federal park system. The NPS is often referred to as the largest single employer of landscape architects in the United Sta
Clear Well
National Park Service (NPS)
Wastewater Facilities
City Beautiful Movement
23. A type of wastewater or service connection pipe made of a low grade of cast iron. _ In plumbing - a pipe that carries the discharge of toilets or similar fixtures - with or without the discharges from other fixtures.
Bearing
Shear Wall
Soil Pipe
Artesian
24. A trained builder or installer of landscapes - retained to implement the plans of landscape architects.
Sewage
landscape contractor
planned unit development (PUD)
Infiltrated Debris
25. A legal means of protecting beautiful views and associated aesthetic quality along a site by restricting change in existing features without government approval.
Absorption
Artificial Groundwater Table
Selector
scenic easement
26. A structure made of concrete or other durable material to protect bare soil from erosion by splashing or falling water.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Splash Pad
Manhole Bedding
Lateral Break
27. 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
Soil Displacement
City Beautiful Movement
agronomy
Grease Trap
28. An opening or point of access in a building wastewater pipe system for rodding or snake operation.
Manifold
Wasteline Cleanout
Walers
Lateral Break
29. British thermal units; the quantity of thermal energy required to raise one pound of water at its maximum density - 1 degree F. One BTU is equivalent to .293 watt hours - or 252 calories. One kilowatt hour is equivalent to 3412 BTU Back Pressure (wat
site plan
B T U
land use
greenbelt
30. A chamber or well used with storm or combined sewers as a means of removing grit which might otherwise enter and be deposited in sewers. Also see STORM WATER INLET and CURB INLET.
Catch Basin
Combined System
Bedding
national park
31. Pertaining to groundwater - a well - or underground basin where the water is under a pressure greater than atmospheric and will rise above the level of its upper confining surface if given an opportunity to do so.
Hydrostatic Pressure
Artesian
National Park Service (NPS)
Catch Basin
32. American Society for Testing and Materials
drainage
Combined Wastewater
A S T M
base plan
33. The precipitation that cannot be absorbed by the soil and flows across the surface by gravity. The water that reaches a stream by traveling over the soil surface or falls directly into the stream channels - including not only the large permanent stre
Surface Runoff
Retention
Oxidation Ditch
B T U
34. The excess water running off from the surface of a drainage area during and immediately after a period of rain. See STORM RUNOFF.
Rubble - Coursed
Collection Main
Storm Water
Manhole Bedding
35. 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.'
Bearing
Collection Main
Storm Runoff
hardscape
36. A small tank (usually covered) or a storage facility used to store water for a home or farm. Often used to store rainwater.
Outlet
Cistern
Lateral Cleanout
Elevation
37. Material used to provide a bedding or foundation for pipes or other underground structures. This material is of specified quality for desirable bedding or other characteristics and is often imported from a different location.
Select Bedding
Vault
Cross Braces
Stratification
38. The pipeline extending from the water main to the building served or to the consumer's system.
Service Pipe
building codes
Compaction Test
Oxidation Ditch
39. 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
International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA)
Surcharge
Riprap
Subsidence
40. A groundwater table that has seasonal changes in depth or elevation.
Activated Sludge Process
Seasonal Water Table
Curb inlet
Angle of Repose
41. A layer - usually of concrete or mortar - for providing continuous support to such items as bricks - slabs - pipes.
Impermeable
Walers
Bedding
Runoff
42. The lowest point of the channel inside a pipe - conduit - or canal.
Trunk System
Wastewater
Invert
Soil Pipe
43. 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.
Sewer Main
Impermeable
Lateral Cleanout
Secondary Treatment
44. A break in a lateral pipe somewhere between the sewer main and the building connection.
Acidic
Chain of Custody
Soil Displacement
Lateral Break
45. A site that might appear to be natural but has elements and features that were planned and specified by a landscape architect. Designed landscapes include Central Park in New York to the siting of buildings.
Artesian
land trust
designed landscape
Deadend Manhole
46. A U.S. government agency charged with administering vast areas of public land.
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
agronomy
Interconnector
Balustrade
47. The running off of water from a land surface or subsurface - such as through sewers or natural means.
drainage
American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)
Liquefaction
Sedimentation
48. A water treatment process in which solid particles settle out of the water being treated in a large clarifier or sedimentation basin.
Sedimentation
Estimated Flow
landscape
Impermeable
49. A wall that supports any vertical load in addition to its own weight.
Sedimentation
Laundering Weir
Handhole Trap
Bearing Wall
50. The used household water and watercarried solids that flow in sewers to a wastewater treatment plant. The preferred term is WASTEWATER.
Stratification
Forest Service
Storm Sewer
Sewage