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Civil Engineering Vocab
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1. 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.
Clear Well
Council of Landscape Architecture Registration Boards (CLARB)
Acidic
American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)
2. 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.
International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA)
Grease Trap
softscape
Two-Way Cleanout
3. Downward movement of the soil or of a structure which it supports
Settlement
A S T M
parkway
Adsorption
4. The lay of the land - particularly its slope and drainage patterns; the science of drawing maps and charts or otherwise representing the surface features of a region or site - including its natural and man-made features.
topography
open space
Admixture
Handhole Trap
5. Any designated use or activity on a piece of land.
Bearing
Sediment
Seasonal Water Table
land use
6. A large - public park - often highly scenic and isolated belonging to and operated by the federal government.
agronomy
Septic Tank
national park
American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)
7. Water that may contain objectionable pollution - contamination - minerals - or infective agents and is considered unsafe and/or unpalatable for drinking.
Nonpotable
design
Lateral Break
Easement
8. 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.
view
manipulation of space
American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)
Sediment
9. 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.
design
Impermeable
multiple use
Axial Load
10. A water treatment process in which solid particles settle out of the water being treated in a large clarifier or sedimentation basin.
Compaction Test
historic preservation
contour
Sedimentation
11. 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
Potable Water
Imported Backfill
Roof Leader
Soil Displacement
12. 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.
Wasteline Vent
contour
Surcharge Manhole
Imported Backfill
13. 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.
drainage
American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)
conservation plan
Cistern
14. 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.
Outlet
topography
designed landscape
landscape contractor
15. The lowest point of the channel inside a pipe - conduit - or canal.
Shear Wall
American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)
Invert
Estimated Flow
16. 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
Acid Rain
Pump Station
Combined Sewer
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
17. A pipe or conduit (sewer) intended to carry wastewater or waterborne wastes from homes - businesses - and industries to the POTW (Publicly Owned Treatment Works). Storm water runoff or unpolluted water should be collected and transported in a separat
Sanitary Sewer
Saturated Soil
Interceptor
Water Table
18. 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.
topography
Aquifer
Select Bedding
Curb Stop
19. A collection pipe to which building laterals are connected.
Rubble - Ordinary
Collection Main
Interceptor
building (construction) permit
20. The force that resists the separation of two bodies in contact.
Aeration
Cistern
Day Tank
Adhesion
21. In zoning - a housing or commercial development composed of individual units that are regulated as a whole.
environmental design professions
Equalizing Basin
planned unit development (PUD)
Surcharge
22. A layer - usually of concrete or mortar - for providing continuous support to such items as bricks - slabs - pipes.
Bearing
Bedding
Oxidation Ditch
Manifold
23. Legal right to use the property of others for a specific purpose. For example - a utility company may have a fivefoot easement along the property line of a home. This gives the utility the legal right to install and maintain a sewer line within the e
Terminal Manhole
Newel Post
softscape
Easement
24. 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.
Hydrostatic Pressure
Newel Post
site plan
Subsidence
25. A device that admits surface waters to the storm water drainage system. Also see CURB INLET and CATCH BASIN.
Two-Way Cleanout
Curb inlet
Storm Water Inlet
Main Sewer
26. 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.
Combined System
Bearing Wall
Estimated Flow
Settlement
27. 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.
Equalizing Basin
environmental inventory
Wastewater Collection System
Surcharge
28. 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
landscape
Datum Line
Curb Stop
B T U
29. The pipes - conduits - structures - equipment - and processes required to collect - convey - and treat domestic and industrial wastes - and dispose of the effluent and sludge.
Collection System
Wastewater Facilities
new town
Sediment
30. 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
landscape architecture
building codes
Storm Sewer
Runoff
31. The creative illustration - planning and specification of space for the greatest possible amount of harmony - utility - value and beauty.
design
Subsidence
conservation
Compaction Test
32. 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
reclamation
Combined Wastewater
Lift Station
Weir
33. Rain and snow water accumulated in the earth's porous rock.
Chain of Custody
ground water
site plan
Clear Well
34. In landscape architecture - an essential sheet showing site boundaries and significant site features - used as a basis for subsequent plan development.
Storm Water
base plan
National Park Service (NPS)
agronomy
35. 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.'
Manhole
Forest Service
Service Pipe
Liquefaction
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
Overflow Manhole
Surface Runoff
Lateral Sewer
Laundering Weir
37. A device made of pipe fittings used to prevent sewer gases escaping from the branch or lateral sewer from entering a building sewer.
Storm Runoff
Handhole Trap
Walers
Newel Post
38. Branch or lateral sewers that collect wastewater from building sewers and service lines.
Chain of Custody
Subsidence
Mail Line
Surface Runoff
39. 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
Backfill
Artificial Groundwater Table
Absorption Capacity
City Beautiful Movement
40. The process of adding air to water. Air can be added to water by either passing air through water or passing water through air. In wastewater treatment - air is added to freshen wastewater and to keep solids in suspension. With mixtures of wastewater
Riprap
conservation
Lateral Sewer
Aeration
41. 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.
Runoff
Adhesion
Equalizing Basin
Compaction
42. Any attempt to restore to beneficial use land that has lost its fertility and stability; most often applies to mining reclamation - such as the restoration of strip mines and quarries.
Groundwater
Invert
grade
reclamation
43. The height to which something is elevated - such as the height above sea level.
Easement
Elevation
Balustrade
Storm Collection System
44. 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
new town
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
Grease Trap
Lateral Sewer
45. Federal agency responsible for producing and managing many federally-funded public service programs - especially those affecting housing and public spaces.
Housing and Urban Development - Department of (HUD)
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Select Backfill
Imported Backfill
46. A wastewater treatment process used to convert dissolved or suspended materials into a form more readily separated from the water being treated. Usually the process follows primary treatment by sedimentation. The process commonly is a type of biologi
Subsidence
Storm Collection System
Secondary Treatment
Acidic
47. An authorization issued by a government agency allowing construction of a project according to approved plans and specifications.
environmental impact
Elevation
building (construction) permit
Catch Basin
48. The property of a material or soil that permits considerable movement of water through it when it is saturated.
Permeability
ecology
designed landscape
Curb Stop
49. 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
Saturated Soil
Earth Shift
Gravity Flow
national park
50. A pipe or conduit that carries wastewater or drainage water. The term 'collection line' is often used also.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Sewer
Rubble - Ordinary
Settlement