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Civil Engineering Vocab

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1. A manhole located at the upstream end of a sewer and having no inlet pipe. Also called a TERMINAL MANHOLE.






2. A wall that supports any vertical load in addition to its own weight.






3. 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.






4. 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






5. The natural elements with which landscape architects work - such as plant materials and the soil itself.






6. Material used in backfilling of an excavation - selected for desirable compaction or other characteristics.






7. Solid material settled from suspension in a liquid.






8. OE The pressure at a specific elevation exerted by a body of water at rest - or _ In the case of groundwater - the pressure at a specific elevation due to the weight of water at higher levels in the same zone of saturation.






9. 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






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






11. 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.






12. The pipe system for collecting and carrying water and watercarried wastes from domestic and industrial sources to a wastewater treatment plant.






13. Vertical member supporting the railing.






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






15. The legal grant of right-of-use to an area of designated private property.






16. Material used to fill in a trench or excavation






17. In landscape architecture - a study of the potential cost of site purchase - demolition and improvement in comparison to the income or other benefit to be derived from site development.






18. The lowest point of the channel inside a pipe - conduit - or canal.






19. 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.






20. One or a series of oneinch diameter holes through a manhole lid for purposes of venting dangerous gases found in sewers.






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






22. 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.






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






24. A sewer designed to carry both sanitary wastewaters and storm or surface water runoff.






25. A large pipe to which a series of smaller pipes are connected. Also called a HEADER.






26. 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






27. A sewer designed to carry both sanitary wastewaters and storm or surface water runoff.






28. A capped opening in a building lateral -usually located on the property line - through which the pipelines can be cleaned.






29. 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.






30. A type of wastewater or service connection pipe made of a low grade of cast iron. _ In plumbing - a pipe that carries the discharge of toilets or similar fixtures - with or without the discharges from other fixtures.






31. The prepared and compacted base on which a manhole is constructed.






32. Shoring members placed across a trench to hold other horizontal and vertical shoring members in place.






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






34. 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.






35. The science and management of land - especially rural - agricultural land.






36. 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.






37. 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.






38. 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.






39. 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.






40. 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.






41. In landscape architecture - an essential sheet showing site boundaries and significant site features - used as a basis for subsequent plan development.






42. Downward movement of the soil or of a structure which it supports






43. 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.






44. 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.






45. 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






46. A multinational organization of landscape architects whose purpose is the promotion of landscape design and planning.






47. A trained builder or installer of landscapes - retained to implement the plans of landscape architects.






48. A device that admits surface waters to the storm water drainage system. Also see CURB INLET and CATCH BASIN.






49. 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.






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