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Civil Engineering Vocab
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1. The legal grant of right-of-use to an area of designated private property.
easement
Earth Shift
Cistern
contour
2. A branch of biology dealing with the relationship between living things and their environment.
Infiltrated Debris
ecology
Newel Post
scenic easement
3. A groundwater table that is changed by artificial means. Examples of activities that artificially raise the level of a groundwater table include agricultural irrigation - dams and excessive sewer line exfiltration. A groundwater table can be artifici
Potable Water
manipulation of space
environmental impact
Artificial Groundwater Table
4. Landscape architecture - (civil) engineering - urban planning and architecture. Agronomy is also often included in this group.
Septic Tank
Sewer
environmental design professions
Impermeable
5. A water service shutoff valve located in a water service pipe near the curb and between the water main and the building. This valve is usually operated by a wrench or valve key and is used to start or stop flows in the water service line to a buildin
contour
Caisson
Curb Stop
Artesian
6. 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
Impermeable
Activated Sludge Process
Weir
Settlement
7. Load applied along or parallel to and concentric with the primary axis
Shear Wall
Aeration
Groundwater
Axial Load
8. A sewer that discharges into a branch or other sewer and has no other common sewer tributary to it. Sometimes called a 'street sewer' because it collects wastewater from individual homes.
planning
Sediment
Lateral Sewer
topography
9. A strip of unspoiled - often treed - agricultural or other outlying land used to separate or ring urban areas.
ground water
Nonpotable
greenbelt
Acidic
10. A sewer designed to carry both sanitary wastewaters and storm or surface water runoff.
Bedding
Lift Station
Mail Line
Combined Sewer
11. Acronym for 'Computer Aided (i.e. - Assisted) Design and Drafting -' a digital design process in which landscape architects use computers to help produce precise drawings and details for the construction of a project.
contour
CADD
Water Table
master plan
12. A collection pipe to which building laterals are connected.
American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)
planned unit development (PUD)
zoning
Collection Main
13. Opening in a sewer provided for the purpose of permitting operators or equipment to enter or leave a sewer. Sometimes called an 'access hole' or a 'maintenance hole.'
CADD
Manhole
Chain of Custody
Backfill
14. A septic tank or other holding tank which serves as a temporary wastewater storage reservoir for a Septic Tank Effluent Pump (STEP) system. See SEPTIC TANK.
Council of Landscape Architecture Registration Boards (CLARB)
Chain of Custody
Interceptor
Wastewater Collection System
15. A coordinating agency formed in 1961 for state boards that administer licensing exams and maintain records for landscape architects to practice.
Absorption
Council of Landscape Architecture Registration Boards (CLARB)
Manhole
Combined System
16. Downstream opening or discharge end of a pipe - culvert - or canal.
Outlet
Housing and Urban Development - Department of (HUD)
historic preservation
Caisson
17. 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.
Chain of Custody
Storm Water
Acid Rain
landscape
18. A system of major sewers serving as transporting lines and not as local or lateral sewers.
Septic Tank
Trunk System
Vault
Wastewater Facilities
19. Installation of pumps to lift wastewater to a higher elevation in places where flat land would require excessively deep sewer trenches. Also used to raise wastewater from areas too low to drain into available collection lines. These stations may be e
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Pump Station
Deadend Manhole
air rights
20. Harmonious use of the land for more than one purpose; not necessarily the combination of uses that will yield the highest economic return - e.g. - a mix of residential and commercial developments in the same area.
Storm Collection System
building codes
Wastewater
multiple use
21. 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.
environmental impact
open space
parkway
landscape
22. A structure or chamber which is usually sunk or lowered by digging from the inside. Used to gain access to the bottom of a stream or other body of water.
Caisson
Gravity Flow
International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA)
view
23. Masonry composed of roughly shaped stones fitting approximately on level beds - well bonded and brought at vertical intervals to continuous level beds of courses.
Sewer
Rubble - Coursed
Council of Landscape Architecture Registration Boards (CLARB)
Datum Line
24. 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.
open space
Stratification
Sanitary Sewer
Capillary Action
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.
Walers
national park
site plan
Supersaturated
26. Solid material settled from suspension in a liquid.
landscape
Bearing Wall
Sediment
Catch Basin
27. 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
American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)
ecology
B T U
Overflow Manhole
28. The man-made creation of or alterations to a specific area - including its natural resources. This is in contrast to the 'natural environment.'
parkway
built environment
agronomy
design
29. Shoring members placed across a trench to hold other horizontal and vertical shoring members in place.
grade
reclamation
A S T M
Cross Braces
30. The creative illustration - planning and specification of space for the greatest possible amount of harmony - utility - value and beauty.
design
ecology
Weir
Compaction
31. The pipeline extending from the water main to the building served or to the consumer's system.
Service Pipe
Clear Well
Elevation
planned unit development (PUD)
32. 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
Cross Braces
Select Backfill
Lift Station
Storm Water
33. A capped opening in a building lateral -usually located on the property line - through which the pipelines can be cleaned.
Service Pipe
Stratification
CADD
Lateral Cleanout
34. The force that resists the separation of two bodies in contact.
Angle of Repose
Adhesion
Storm Water Inlet
Retention
35. 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
Activated Sludge Process
City Beautiful Movement
Adsorption
Wastewater
36. A type of easement granting permission to a constructor or developer to build over a street or structure.
Compaction Test
air rights
Backfill
Curb Stop
37. A flat board or plate - deflector - guide or similar device constructed or placed in flowing water or slurry systems to cause more uniform flow velocities - to absorb energy - and to divert - guide - or agitate liquids (water - chemical solutions - s
Baffle
scenic easement
grade
Weir
38. 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.
Caisson
Estimated Flow
Seasonal Water Table
Chain of Custody
39. A reservoir for the storage of filtered water of sufficient capacity to prevent the need to vary the filtration rate with variations in demand. Also used to provide chlorine contact time for disinfection.
Rubble - Random
Angle of Repose
Clear Well
Rubble - Ordinary
40. An arrangement of pipes - equipment - devices - tanks and structures for treating wastewater and industrial wastes. A water pollution control plant.
Wastewater Treatment Plant
Rubble - Coursed
environmental impact
Impermeable
41. 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.
Impermeable
B T U
land trust
International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA)
42. The slope of a plot of land. Grading is the mechanical process of moving earth changing the degree of rise or descent of the land in order to establish good drainage and otherwise suit the intent of a landscape design.
Sewer Main
grade
Handhole Trap
master plan
43. A manhole which fills and allows raw wastewater to flow out onto the street or ground.
Council of Landscape Architecture Registration Boards (CLARB)
Overflow Manhole
Wasteline Vent
Two-Way Cleanout
44. A natural underground layer of porous - waterbearing materials (sand - gravel) usually capable of yielding a large amount or supply of water.
Artificial Groundwater Table
Angle of Repose
Aquifer
Absorption Capacity
45. Post at which the railing terminates at each floor level.
Trunk Sewer
Newel Post
Laundering Weir
Sanitary Sewer
46. A tank used to store a chemical solution of known concentration for feed to a chemical feeder. A day tank usually stores sufficient chemical solution to properly treat the water being treated for at least one day. Also called an AGE TANK.
landscape architecture registration
International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA)
Saturated Soil
Day Tank
47. 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
Gravity Flow
Roof Leader
Datum Line
Septic Tank
48. Downward movement of the soil or of a structure which it supports
Surcharge Manhole
site plan
Settlement
land trust
49. A mixture of storm or surface runoff and other wastewater such as domestic or industrial wastewater.
Curb inlet
Day Tank
Combined Wastewater
manipulation of space
50. 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.
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
Balustrade
Mail Line
Runoff