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Civil Engineering Vocab
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1. 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
Aquifer
Subsidence
Wastewater Collection System
Manhole
2. A groundwater table that has seasonal changes in depth or elevation.
Housing and Urban Development - Department of (HUD)
Storm Water Inlet
Seasonal Water Table
environmental impact
3. 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
Newel Post
Combined Sewer
Sanitary Sewer
Main Sewer
4. An arrangement of pipes - equipment - devices - tanks and structures for treating wastewater and industrial wastes. A water pollution control plant.
Wastewater Treatment Plant
landscape
Check Valve
Mail Line
5. 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
Riprap
Shear Wall
Bedding
Gravity Flow
6. A system of gutters - catch basins - yard drains - culverts and pipes for the purpose of conducting storm waters from an area - but intended to exclude domestic and industrial wastes.
Outlet
Storm Collection System
Curb Stop
Angle Post
7. 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.
Sanitary Sewer
topography
Adhesion
Laundering Weir
8. Water that may contain objectionable pollution - contamination - minerals - or infective agents and is considered unsafe and/or unpalatable for drinking.
agronomy
Datum Line
Grade
Nonpotable
9. Masonry composed of roughly shaped stones - well bonded and brought at irregular intervals vertically to discontinuous but approximately level beds or courses.
Artesian
Rubble - Random
Terminal Manhole
Trunk Sewer
10. Sand - silt - gravel and rocks carried or washed into a collection system by infiltration water flows.
Infiltrated Debris
Axial Load
Combined Wastewater
Septic Tank
11. 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
B T U
Catch Basin
Water Table
Aquifer
12. 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.'
Storm Runoff
environmental inventory
Capillary Action
land trust
13. Vertical member supporting the railing.
Baluster
Baffle
Acidic
topography
14. 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.
Collection System
Saturated Soil
Weir
landscape
15. A strip of unspoiled - often treed - agricultural or other outlying land used to separate or ring urban areas.
Aquifer
Weir
greenbelt
Grease Trap
16. 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
Adsorption
Curb inlet
Artificial Groundwater Table
17. A small box-like structure that contains valves used to regulate flows.
Vault
Wastewater Treatment Plant
Infiltrated Debris
building (construction) permit
18. In zoning - a housing or commercial development composed of individual units that are regulated as a whole.
planned unit development (PUD)
Deadend Manhole
Surcharge Manhole
Earth Shift
19. A chamber or well built at the curbline of a street to admit gutter flow to the storm water drainage system. Also see STORM WATER INLET and CATCH BASIN.
Curb inlet
design
Manifold
Groundwater
20. 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.
Oxidation Ditch
Imported Backfill
designed landscape
Housing and Urban Development - Department of (HUD)
21. Material used in backfilling of an excavation - selected for desirable compaction or other characteristics.
Absorption
Select Backfill
Storm Water Inlet
Potable Water
22. A wall that supports any vertical load in addition to its own weight.
Rubble - Ordinary
historic preservation
Curb Stop
Bearing Wall
23. Solid material settled from suspension in a liquid.
National Park Service (NPS)
Sediment
Capillary Action
Storm Collection System
24. 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.
conservation plan
Equalizing Basin
Select Bedding
Main Sewer
25. A large - public park - often highly scenic and isolated belonging to and operated by the federal government.
Potable Water
national park
Lift Station
planning
26. A coordinating agency formed in 1961 for state boards that administer licensing exams and maintain records for landscape architects to practice.
Council of Landscape Architecture Registration Boards (CLARB)
Shear Wall
Impermeable
Settlement
27. 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.
Check Valve
planned unit development (PUD)
Baffle
Riprap
28. The conversion of large solid particles of sludge into very fine particles which either dissolve or remain suspended in wastewater.
Liquefaction
Storm Runoff
Surcharge Manhole
Artificial Groundwater Table
29. A material - other than aggregate - cementitious material or water - added in small quantities to the mix in order to produce some (desired) modifications - either to the properties of the mix or of the hardened product.
agronomy
Baluster
air rights
Admixture
30. 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
Sewer Main
Shear Wall
Curb inlet
31. Rain and snow water accumulated in the earth's porous rock.
ground water
Estimated Flow
Mail Line
landscape architect
32. A professional who designs - plans - and manages outdoor spaces ranging from entire ecosystems to residential sites and whose media include natural and built elements; also referred to as a designer - planner - consultant. Not to be confused with lan
Liquefaction
Easement
landscape architect
parkway
33. A mixture of storm or surface runoff and other wastewater such as domestic or industrial wastewater.
Combined Wastewater
view
City Beautiful Movement
Interceptor
34. 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
landscape architecture registration
Retention
Grade
landscape architect
35. A manhole located at the upstream end of a sewer and having no inlet pipe. Also called a TERMINAL MANHOLE.
Deadend Manhole
Laundering Weir
Saturated Soil
multiple use
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
Liquefaction
Surface Runoff
Manhole Bedding
Rubble - Ordinary
37. A separate pipe - conduit or open channel (sewer) that carries runoff from storms - surface drainage - and street wash - but does not include domestic and industrial wastes. Storm sewers are often the recipients of hazardous or toxic substances due t
Interceptor
Storm Sewer
Newel Post
zoning
38. A trained builder or installer of landscapes - retained to implement the plans of landscape architects.
Balustrade
Manhole Bedding
Impermeable
landscape contractor
39. This landscape architecture specialization has evolved to encompass maintenance of a site in its present condition; conservation of a site as part of a larger area of historic importance; restoration of a site to a given date or quality; renovation o
Manhole Vents
Sanitary Sewer
historic preservation
Walers
40. A water treatment process in which solid particles settle out of the water being treated in a large clarifier or sedimentation basin.
hardscape
cost-benefit analysis
Sedimentation
Outlet
41. 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.
land trust
Saturated Soil
Water Table
Select Bedding
42. A device made of pipe fittings used to prevent sewer gases escaping from the branch or lateral sewer from entering a building sewer.
historic preservation
Handhole Trap
Soil Displacement
Grease Trap
43. 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.
Curb inlet
Select Bedding
contour
Forest Service
44. 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
Groundwater
Imported Backfill
open space
Curb Stop
45. Load applied along or parallel to and concentric with the primary axis
site plan
Impermeable
Sewer
Axial Load
46. In landscape architecture - an essential sheet showing site boundaries and significant site features - used as a basis for subsequent plan development.
landscape
Capillary Action
Soil Displacement
base plan
47. The creative illustration - planning and specification of space for the greatest possible amount of harmony - utility - value and beauty.
design
Manifold
Artesian
cost-benefit analysis
48. 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.
multiple use
contour
ground water
Collection System
49. 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
Retention
Wastewater Collection System
Water Table
Baffle
50. A holding basin in which variations in flow and composition of a liquid are averaged. Such basins are used to provide a flow of reasonably uniform volume and composition to a treatment unit. Also called a balancing reservoir.
Earth Shift
scenic easement
Equalizing Basin
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)