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Civil Engineering Vocab

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1. The creative illustration - planning and specification of space for the greatest possible amount of harmony - utility - value and beauty.






2. A small tank (usually covered) or a storage facility used to store water for a home or farm. Often used to store rainwater.






3. Any method of determining the weight a compacted material is able to support without damage or displacement. Usually stated in pounds per square foot.






4. In the United States - a certification of individuals entitled to use the term 'landscape architect' or to practice landscape architecture or both - by means of examination and required degree and experience criteria.






5. Sedimentation basin overflow weir. A plate with Vnotches along the top to ensure a uniform flow rate and avoid shortcircuiting.






6. 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.






7. 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.






8. An authorization issued by a government agency allowing construction of a project according to approved plans and specifications.






9. An agency of the U.S. Department of the Interior charged with the planning and administration of all parks and monuments in the federal park system. The NPS is often referred to as the largest single employer of landscape architects in the United Sta






10. Any designated use or activity on a piece of land.






11. An unstable condition of a solution (water) in which the solution contains a substance at a concentration greater than the saturation concentration for the substance.






12. A sewer pipe to which building laterals are connected. Also called a COLLECTION MAIN.






13. 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.






14. A sewer that receives wastewater from many tributary branches or sewers and serves a large territory and contributing population.






15. Load applied along or parallel to and concentric with the primary axis






16. An opening or point of access in a building wastewater pipe system for rodding or snake operation.






17. 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.






18. 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.






19. 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.






20. 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






21. A pipe or conduit that carries wastewater or drainage water. The term 'collection line' is often used also.






22. A U.S. government agency charged with administering vast areas of public land.






23. A coordinating agency formed in 1961 for state boards that administer licensing exams and maintain records for landscape architects to practice.






24. 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






25. A water treatment process in which solid particles settle out of the water being treated in a large clarifier or sedimentation basin.






26. The pipes - conduits - structures - equipment - and processes required to collect - convey - and treat domestic and industrial wastes - and dispose of the effluent and sludge.






27. The upper surface of the zone of saturation of groundwater in an unconfined aquifer.






28. The property of a material or soil that permits considerable movement of water through it when it is saturated.






29. Tamping or rolling of a material to achieve a surface or density that is able to support predicted loads.






30. In zoning - a housing or commercial development composed of individual units that are regulated as a whole.






31. The height to which something is elevated - such as the height above sea level.






32. Post at which the railing terminates at each floor level.






33. 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.






34. A break in a lateral pipe somewhere between the sewer main and the building connection.






35. Masonry composed of roughly shaped stones fitting approximately on level beds - well bonded and brought at vertical intervals to continuous level beds of courses.






36. 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.






37. 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.






38. The pipeline extending from the water main to the building served or to the consumer's system.






39. Water that does not contain objectionable pollution - contamination - minerals - or infective agents and is considered satisfactory for drinking.






40. A layer - usually of concrete or mortar - for providing continuous support to such items as bricks - slabs - pipes.






41. 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.






42. 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






43. Masonry composed of roughly shaped stones - well bonded and brought at irregular intervals vertically to discontinuous but approximately level beds or courses.






44. Solid material settled from suspension in a liquid.






45. Vertical member supporting the railing.






46. A manhole in which the rate of the water entering is greater than the capacity of the outlet under gravity flow conditions. When the water in the manhole rises above the top of the outlet pipe - the manhole is said to be 'surcharged.'






47. A railing composed of balusters capped by a handrail.






48. The man-made creation of or alterations to a specific area - including its natural resources. This is in contrast to the 'natural environment.'






49. 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.






50. 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.







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