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Civil Engineering Vocab
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1. 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.
hardscape
Stratification
conservation plan
Cistern
2. A groundwater table that has seasonal changes in depth or elevation.
Selector
site plan
Acidic
Seasonal Water Table
3. 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.'
landscape architecture
Pump Station
Hydrostatic Pressure
Groundwater
4. The amount of liquid which a solid material can absorb. Sand - as an example - can hold approximately onethird of its volume in water - or three cubic feet of dry sand can contain one cubic foot of water. A denser soil - such as clay - can hold much
Septic Tank
Service Pipe
Lift Station
Absorption Capacity
5. A multinational organization of landscape architects whose purpose is the promotion of landscape design and planning.
International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA)
CADD
environmental impact
Admixture
6. A small box-like structure that contains valves used to regulate flows.
Collection Main
Chain of Custody
planning
Vault
7. 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
Wasteline Cleanout
Manhole Vents
Overflow Manhole
Adsorption
8. Downward movement of the soil or of a structure which it supports
Clear Well
Settlement
natural resources
Overflow Manhole
9. A railing composed of balusters capped by a handrail.
Balustrade
Clear Well
Admixture
environmental inventory
10. In zoning - a housing or commercial development composed of individual units that are regulated as a whole.
Water Table
Riprap
Compaction Test
planned unit development (PUD)
11. A branch of biology dealing with the relationship between living things and their environment.
Sedimentation
Walers
ecology
Earth Shift
12. The protection - improvement and use of natural resources according to principles that will assure the highest economic or social benefits for people and the environment now and in the future.
conservation
Backfill
Axial Load
easement
13. The man-made creation of or alterations to a specific area - including its natural resources. This is in contrast to the 'natural environment.'
Collection Main
Manhole
built environment
Mail Line
14. 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
national park
view
Outlet
landscape architecture
15. Sewers are surcharged when the supply of water to be carried is greater than the capacity of the pipes to carry the flow. The surface of the wastewater in manholes rises above the top of the sewer pipe - and the sewer is under pressure or a head - ra
view
Collection Main
open space
Surcharge
16. The pipe system for collecting and carrying water and watercarried wastes from domestic and industrial sources to a wastewater treatment plant.
Trunk Sewer
Wastewater Collection System
Clear Well
planning
17. 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
Weir
Soil Pipe
Saturated Soil
Runoff
18. 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
Soil Displacement
reclamation
Storm Sewer
Sediment
19. 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
Vault
Invert
Sedimentation
Easement
20. A U.S. government agency charged with administering vast areas of public land.
Service Pipe
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
Storm Collection System
21. 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.
designed landscape
air rights
Wastewater Collection System
ecology
22. 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.
Forest Service
International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA)
Sediment
Service Pipe
23. The running off of water from a land surface or subsurface - such as through sewers or natural means.
Invert
drainage
Handhole Trap
Check Valve
24. Material used for backfilling a trench or excavation which was not the original material removed during excavation. This is a common practice where tests on the original material show it to have poor compactability or load capacity. Also called BORRO
Vault
Imported Backfill
Compaction
Bearing
25. The science and management of land - especially rural - agricultural land.
Water Table
Newel Post
agronomy
Gravity Flow
26. 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.
base plan
planned unit development (PUD)
Council of Landscape Architecture Registration Boards (CLARB)
contour
27. 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.
hardscape
Cross Braces
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
manipulation of space
28. The creative illustration - planning and specification of space for the greatest possible amount of harmony - utility - value and beauty.
design
agronomy
Deadend Manhole
Storm Runoff
29. 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.
Two-Way Cleanout
Settlement
Lateral Cleanout
Supersaturated
30. 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
Wastewater Collection System
Artificial Groundwater Table
master plan
Subsidence
31. Any designated use or activity on a piece of land.
Backfill
greenbelt
Trunk System
land use
32. Railing support at landings or other breaks in the stairs. If an angle post projects beyond the bottom of the strings - the ornamental detail formed at the bottom of the post is called the drop.
landscape architecture
Imported Backfill
Angle Post
Check Valve
33. The prepared and compacted base on which a manhole is constructed.
Manhole
Manifold
natural resources
Manhole Bedding
34. 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
historic preservation
Splash Pad
B T U
new town
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.
City Beautiful Movement
Pump Station
Wasteline Cleanout
view
36. A manhole located at the upstream end of a sewer and having no inlet pipe. Also called a TERMINAL MANHOLE.
Wasteline Cleanout
Curb inlet
Deadend Manhole
Nonpotable
37. 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
base plan
Groundwater
Secondary Treatment
38. The lowest point of the channel inside a pipe - conduit - or canal.
Select Backfill
Select Bedding
master plan
Invert
39. 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
Combined System
Pump Station
Estimated Flow
Invert
40. 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
Activated Sludge Process
Surface Runoff
Bedding
Artificial Groundwater Table
41. 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
Terminal Manhole
landscape architect
Deadend Manhole
air rights
42. 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.
Interceptor
Wastewater
design
Weir
43. One or a series of oneinch diameter holes through a manhole lid for purposes of venting dangerous gases found in sewers.
Deadend Manhole
Surcharge Manhole
Manhole Vents
site plan
44. Tamping or rolling of a material to achieve a surface or density that is able to support predicted loads.
Mail Line
Compaction
Lift Station
Manhole
45. 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
Interconnector
Soil Displacement
softscape
topography
46. 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.
Estimated Flow
Potable Water
Stratification
Grease Trap
47. An opening or point of access in a building wastewater pipe system for rodding or snake operation.
Manifold
Sewer Main
built environment
Wasteline Cleanout
48. The oxidation ditch is a modified form of the activated sludge process. The ditch consists of two channels placed side by side and connected at the ends to produce one continuous loop of wastewater flow and a brush rotator assembly placed across the
B T U
Vault
Oxidation Ditch
multiple use
49. 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.
building codes
Sewer Main
Lift Station
Wasteline Vent
50. That part of the precipitation falling on a drainage area which does not escape as surface stream flow during a given period. It is the difference between total precipitation and total runoff during the period - and represents evaporation - transpira
Stratification
Cistern
Nonpotable
Retention
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