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Civil Engineering Vocab
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1. A receptacle designed to collect and retain grease and fatty substances usually found in kitchens or from similar wastes. It is installed in the drainage system between the kitchen or other point of production of the waste and the building wastewater
Surface Runoff
Baluster
Grease Trap
Curb Stop
2. Masonry composed of roughly shaped stones fitting approximately on level beds - well bonded and brought at vertical intervals to continuous level beds of courses.
Sediment
Gravity Flow
Day Tank
Rubble - Coursed
3. 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.
manipulation of space
Baluster
Chain of Custody
conservation
4. A groundwater table that has seasonal changes in depth or elevation.
Estimated Flow
Seasonal Water Table
City Beautiful Movement
Adhesion
5. 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.
Catch Basin
Artesian
landscape architect
planning
6. The legal grant of right-of-use to an area of designated private property.
easement
Sedimentation Basin
Acid Rain
Lift Station
7. A trained builder or installer of landscapes - retained to implement the plans of landscape architects.
landscape contractor
Wastewater
Retention
Elevation
8. A manhole located at the upstream end of a sewer and having no inlet pipe. Also called a TERMINAL MANHOLE.
Deadend Manhole
Bearing
CADD
Manhole Vents
9. A device that admits surface waters to the storm water drainage system. Also see CURB INLET and CATCH BASIN.
Backfill
Soil Pipe
Check Valve
Storm Water Inlet
10. One or a series of oneinch diameter holes through a manhole lid for purposes of venting dangerous gases found in sewers.
Manhole Vents
Cross Braces
Axial Load
Bearing Wall
11. Water or wastewater flowing from a higher elevation to a lower elevation due to the force of gravity. The water does not flow due to energy provided by a pump. Wherever possible - wastewater collection systems are designed to use the force of gravity
American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)
national park
Gravity Flow
Absorption Capacity
12. 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
Laundering Weir
Acid Rain
Adsorption
national park
13. 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.
land use
Mail Line
Outlet
master plan
14. Broken stones - boulders - or other materials placed compactly or irregularly on levees or dikes for the protection of earth surfaces against the erosive action of waves.
Riprap
Equalizing Basin
A S T M
Two-Way Cleanout
15. Masonry composed of irregularly shaped stones laid without regularity of coursing - but well bonded.
Bearing
Forest Service
Wastewater
Rubble - Ordinary
16. A sewer designed to carry both sanitary wastewaters and storm or surface water runoff.
Infiltrated Debris
Service Pipe
Combined Sewer
Interceptor
17. A break in a lateral pipe somewhere between the sewer main and the building connection.
Trunk System
Lateral Break
Axial Load
softscape
18. The upper surface of the zone of saturation of groundwater in an unconfined aquifer.
Absorption
Storm Water
Water Table
Pump Station
19. The elevation of the invert (or bottom) of a pipeline - canal - culvert - or similar conduit. _ The inclination or slope of a pipeline - conduit - stream channel - or natural ground surface; usually expressed in terms of the ratio or percentage of nu
Chain of Custody
Grade
Saturated Soil
Vault
20. A system used where wastewater collection systems and treatment plants are not available. The system is a settling tank in which settled sludge is in intimate contact with the wastewater flowing through the tank and the organic solids are decomposed
landscape contractor
Septic Tank
Laundering Weir
Collection System
21. Shoring members placed across a trench to hold other horizontal and vertical shoring members in place.
Wastewater Collection System
Storm Runoff
open space
Cross Braces
22. The force that resists the separation of two bodies in contact.
CADD
Adhesion
Two-Way Cleanout
Nonpotable
23. The pipe system for collecting and carrying water and watercarried wastes from domestic and industrial sources to a wastewater treatment plant.
Aquifer
Sewage
Manifold
Wastewater Collection System
24. Sedimentation basin overflow weir. A plate with Vnotches along the top to ensure a uniform flow rate and avoid shortcircuiting.
Laundering Weir
Vault
Soil Displacement
agronomy
25. A sewer that receives wastewater from many tributary branches or sewers and serves a large territory and contributing population.
Backfill
Balustrade
Sewer Main
Trunk Sewer
26. The man-made creation of or alterations to a specific area - including its natural resources. This is in contrast to the 'natural environment.'
Manifold
built environment
Supersaturated
Lateral Break
27. The science and management of land - especially rural - agricultural land.
agronomy
base plan
design
Cross Braces
28. A large - public park - often highly scenic and isolated belonging to and operated by the federal government.
national park
Collection System
design
Council of Landscape Architecture Registration Boards (CLARB)
29. A rough guess of the amount of flow in a collection system. When greater accuracy is needed - flow could be computed using average or typical flow quantities. Even greater accuracy would result from metering or otherwise measuring the actual flow.
Weir
Estimated Flow
manipulation of space
reclamation
30. 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
open space
Day Tank
Soil Displacement
Baffle
31. The dropping or lowering of the ground surface as a result of removing excess water (overdraft or overpumping) from an aquifer. After excess water has been removed - the soil will settle - become compacted and the ground surface will drop and can cau
Acidic
Adhesion
Subsidence
City Beautiful Movement
32. 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.
Select Backfill
Saturated Soil
Angle of Repose
Overflow Manhole
33. Any method of determining the weight a compacted material is able to support without damage or displacement. Usually stated in pounds per square foot.
Absorption Capacity
Collection Main
Manhole Bedding
Compaction Test
34. 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
Weir
Wastewater Collection System
landscape architecture registration
35. A legal form of land-use control and building regulations usually exercised by a municipal authority; usually involves setting aside of distinct land areas for specific purposes - such as commercial - educational or residential development.
zoning
Sewage
Hydrostatic Pressure
landscape architect
36. 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
Cross Braces
Settlement
Surface Runoff
Bearing
37. A U.S. government agency charged with administering vast areas of public land.
Main Sewer
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
ground water
Storm Sewer
38. 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
softscape
landscape architecture
Soil Displacement
Newel Post
39. Branch or lateral sewers that collect wastewater from building sewers and service lines.
Shear Wall
Bedding
Mail Line
Backfill
40. 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.
Bedding
environmental impact
Soil Displacement
ecology
41. In landscape architecture - an essential sheet showing site boundaries and significant site features - used as a basis for subsequent plan development.
Water Table
Sewer Main
Adhesion
base plan
42. The creative illustration - planning and specification of space for the greatest possible amount of harmony - utility - value and beauty.
planned unit development (PUD)
design
Handhole Trap
Service Pipe
43. 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
Wastewater Collection System
Selector
open space
Select Backfill
44. A device made of pipe fittings used to prevent sewer gases escaping from the branch or lateral sewer from entering a building sewer.
Handhole Trap
built environment
Equalizing Basin
Laundering Weir
45. 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
Collection System
Rubble - Coursed
environmental inventory
Catch Basin
46. 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
Wastewater
Curb Stop
base plan
Handhole Trap
47. American Society for Testing and Materials
hardscape
landscape
A S T M
National Park Service (NPS)
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.
Bearing Wall
Wastewater Treatment Plant
Absorption Capacity
land trust
49. 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.
Absorption Capacity
American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)
hardscape
manipulation of space
50. Landscape architecture - (civil) engineering - urban planning and architecture. Agronomy is also often included in this group.
multiple use
Sediment
conservation
environmental design professions