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1. A branch of biology dealing with the relationship between living things and their environment.
Newel Post
ecology
Aeration
Manifold
2. 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
CADD
Select Bedding
Subsidence
Soil Pipe
3. A U.S. government agency responsible for developing and enforcing regulations that guide the use of land and natural resources.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Manifold
Forest Service
Outlet
4. 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
Storm Collection System
building codes
Aquifer
Selector
5. 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
Walers
environmental impact
Baffle
Datum Line
6. 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.
Oxidation Ditch
environmental impact
National Park Service (NPS)
contour
7. 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.
American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)
Manhole Bedding
landscape contractor
Housing and Urban Development - Department of (HUD)
8. A railing composed of balusters capped by a handrail.
CADD
Service Pipe
Wastewater Treatment Plant
Balustrade
9. 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.
Equalizing Basin
Main Sewer
design
Admixture
10. 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.
reclamation
Aeration
Housing and Urban Development - Department of (HUD)
Storm Collection System
11. Water that may contain objectionable pollution - contamination - minerals - or infective agents and is considered unsafe and/or unpalatable for drinking.
Potable Water
Infiltrated Debris
Surcharge
Nonpotable
12. A sewer designed to carry both sanitary wastewaters and storm or surface water runoff.
environmental impact
Manifold
Sanitary Sewer
Combined Sewer
13. Masonry composed of irregularly shaped stones laid without regularity of coursing - but well bonded.
Rubble - Ordinary
Clear Well
Angle of Repose
Cross Braces
14. In zoning - a housing or commercial development composed of individual units that are regulated as a whole.
building codes
planned unit development (PUD)
environmental design professions
Storm Runoff
15. Narrowly defined - an extended view or prospect from a site which - many times - is as important as or more important than the site itself.
Sanitary Sewer
natural resources
view
Storm Collection System
16. A structure made of concrete or other durable material to protect bare soil from erosion by splashing or falling water.
Secondary Treatment
Wastewater
Splash Pad
Select Bedding
17. A sewer that receives wastewater from many tributary branches or sewers and serves a large territory and contributing population.
multiple use
base plan
Roof Leader
Trunk Sewer
18. A capped opening in a building lateral -usually located on the property line - through which the pipelines can be cleaned.
Weir
Lateral Cleanout
Forest Service
Settlement
19. Downstream opening or discharge end of a pipe - culvert - or canal.
Outlet
built environment
environmental impact
air rights
20. 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
Storm Water
landscape architecture
B T U
Grade
21. Solid material settled from suspension in a liquid.
landscape architecture
multiple use
Sediment
drainage
22. A system of major sewers serving as transporting lines and not as local or lateral sewers.
Manifold
Cistern
greenbelt
Trunk System
23. A 19th- and 20th-century planned community traditionally featuring careful mixes of housing - open space - commercial activity and recreation. Examples include Reston - Va. - and Columbia - Md. - in the United States - and Harlow and Stevenage in Gre
Combined Wastewater
Manifold
new town
softscape
24. 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.
Soil Pipe
Forest Service
Catch Basin
Council of Landscape Architecture Registration Boards (CLARB)
25. Masonry composed of roughly shaped stones - well bonded and brought at irregular intervals vertically to discontinuous but approximately level beds or courses.
Oxidation Ditch
Rubble - Random
Storm Collection System
environmental design professions
26. Subsurface water in the saturation zone from which wells and springs are fed. In a strict sense the term applies only to water below the water table. Also called 'phreatic water' and 'plerotic water.'
Invert
historic preservation
Groundwater
Datum Line
27. 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.
planning
Seasonal Water Table
Caisson
planned unit development (PUD)
28. 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.
Wasteline Cleanout
cost-benefit analysis
conservation plan
Compaction
29. A large pipe to which a series of smaller pipes are connected. Also called a HEADER.
Combined Wastewater
Activated Sludge Process
Sediment
Manifold
30. 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.
environmental impact
Saturated Soil
Lateral Cleanout
Water Table
31. A type of easement granting permission to a constructor or developer to build over a street or structure.
Acid Rain
Equalizing Basin
reclamation
air rights
32. 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
Laundering Weir
Acidic
Collection System
33. Vertical member supporting the railing.
Artesian
Baluster
Wasteline Vent
easement
34. 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.'
Interceptor
Permeability
Storm Runoff
view
35. A popular social concern of the late nineteenth and early 20th centuries aimed at improving the appearance of urban areas through better planning and the addition of formal - romanticized public spaces and gardens.
national park
landscape architecture
City Beautiful Movement
planned unit development (PUD)
36. 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.
Surface Runoff
Chain of Custody
manipulation of space
base plan
37. 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
design
Clear Well
Aquifer
Grade
38. 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
grade
Compaction Test
reclamation
39. 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.
Interconnector
Saturated Soil
Forest Service
easement
40. 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.
planning
Imported Backfill
Cross Braces
Artesian
41. 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.
Day Tank
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
Vault
natural resources
42. 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.
Manhole Bedding
Capillary Action
environmental design professions
environmental inventory
43. The excess water running off from the surface of a drainage area during and immediately after a period of rain. See STORM RUNOFF.
Storm Water
Wastewater Collection System
Deadend Manhole
Gravity Flow
44. A break in a lateral pipe somewhere between the sewer main and the building connection.
Wastewater Facilities
Lateral Break
Select Bedding
Easement
45. The used household water and watercarried solids that flow in sewers to a wastewater treatment plant. The preferred term is WASTEWATER.
Handhole Trap
Sewage
softscape
Absorption Capacity
46. Material used to fill in a trench or excavation
Cistern
open space
Backfill
Storm Collection System
47. Most plumbing codes require a vent pipe connection of adequate size and located downstream of a trap in a building wastewater system. This vent prevents the accumulation of gases or odors and is usually piped through the roof and out of doors.
American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)
Wasteline Vent
Main Sewer
Select Bedding
48. 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.
Curb Stop
Impermeable
Selector
Wasteline Vent
49. 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.
master plan
Interconnector
Grade
Surcharge Manhole
50. The elements of supply inherent to an area that can be used to satisfy human needs - including air - soil - water - native vegetation - minerals and wildlife.
Select Backfill
natural resources
Weir
Shear Wall
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