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Civil Engineering Vocab
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1. Narrowly defined - an extended view or prospect from a site which - many times - is as important as or more important than the site itself.
zoning
Wasteline Cleanout
view
environmental inventory
2. 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
Selector
Compaction
Acid Rain
Secondary Treatment
3. Regulations specifying the type of construction methods and materials that are allowable on a project.
Collection Main
building codes
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
Surface Runoff
4. An arrangement of pipes - equipment - devices - tanks and structures for treating wastewater and industrial wastes. A water pollution control plant.
Infiltrated Debris
Wastewater Treatment Plant
Lateral Break
Balustrade
5. 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.
Supersaturated
Outlet
Manhole Vents
Sewage
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.
Storm Collection System
Combined Sewer
Catch Basin
reclamation
7. Material used to fill in a trench or excavation
Capillary Action
Pump Station
Caisson
Backfill
8. Post at which the railing terminates at each floor level.
Newel Post
Roof Leader
Datum Line
planned unit development (PUD)
9. 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
Check Valve
landscape architecture
new town
Roof Leader
10. Federal agency responsible for producing and managing many federally-funded public service programs - especially those affecting housing and public spaces.
Housing and Urban Development - Department of (HUD)
Select Backfill
Lift Station
multiple use
11. In zoning - a housing or commercial development composed of individual units that are regulated as a whole.
Collection System
Grade
historic preservation
planned unit development (PUD)
12. In landscape architecture - an essential sheet showing site boundaries and significant site features - used as a basis for subsequent plan development.
Aeration
Cistern
base plan
Rubble - Ordinary
13. A special valve with a hinged disc or flap that opens in the direction of normal flow and is forced shut when flows attempt to go in the reverse or opposite direction of normal flows.
drainage
Elevation
environmental inventory
Check Valve
14. 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.
Activated Sludge Process
Invert
planning
Balustrade
15. Solid material settled from suspension in a liquid.
Weir
environmental impact
Sediment
Lift Station
16. 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.
Angle Post
agronomy
Axial Load
conservation
17. A dimensioned drawing indicating the form of an existing area and the physical objects existing in it and those to be built or installed upon it.
Trunk Sewer
Shear Wall
site plan
historic preservation
18. 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
Easement
historic preservation
Wastewater
Interconnector
19. 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
Interceptor
site plan
Sanitary Sewer
Grease Trap
20. The creative illustration - planning and specification of space for the greatest possible amount of harmony - utility - value and beauty.
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
Soil Pipe
planning
design
21. Sand - silt - gravel and rocks carried or washed into a collection system by infiltration water flows.
Earth Shift
Infiltrated Debris
Sedimentation Basin
Gravity Flow
22. 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.
environmental inventory
Seasonal Water Table
Walers
Artificial Groundwater Table
23. A capped opening in a building lateral -usually located on the property line - through which the pipelines can be cleaned.
Absorption Capacity
topography
National Park Service (NPS)
Lateral Cleanout
24. 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.
Sanitary Sewer
Angle Post
environmental inventory
land use
25. The force that resists the separation of two bodies in contact.
easement
B T U
Soil Pipe
Adhesion
26. 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
Backfill
Equalizing Basin
Collection Main
Artificial Groundwater Table
27. 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
reclamation
Select Backfill
Grade
manipulation of space
28. 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.
manipulation of space
Curb inlet
ground water
hardscape
29. 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
Oxidation Ditch
Lift Station
Easement
Potable Water
30. 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.'
Chain of Custody
Storm Runoff
building codes
Surcharge
31. The man-made creation of or alterations to a specific area - including its natural resources. This is in contrast to the 'natural environment.'
built environment
Terminal Manhole
Supersaturated
Angle Post
32. Vertical member supporting the railing.
Baluster
Easement
Rubble - Random
Deadend Manhole
33. Elements added to a natural landscape - such as paving stones - gravel - walkways - irrigation systems - roads - retaining walls - sculpture - street amenities - fountains - and other mechanical features.
Select Backfill
Potable Water
hardscape
multiple use
34. A break in a lateral pipe somewhere between the sewer main and the building connection.
Lateral Break
ecology
environmental impact
Combined Wastewater
35. 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
Bearing Wall
site plan
Runoff
36. Water that does not contain objectionable pollution - contamination - minerals - or infective agents and is considered satisfactory for drinking.
Baluster
Laundering Weir
Service Pipe
Potable Water
37. A sewer that discharges into a branch or other sewer and has no other common sewer tributary to it. Sometimes called a 'street sewer' because it collects wastewater from individual homes.
Hydrostatic Pressure
conservation plan
Lateral Sewer
Storm Water Inlet
38. A small tank (usually covered) or a storage facility used to store water for a home or farm. Often used to store rainwater.
Cistern
zoning
design
Soil Displacement
39. 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.
Balustrade
reclamation
Wasteline Vent
Soil Pipe
40. 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.
Combined Sewer
cost-benefit analysis
view
Wasteline Vent
41. 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.
Curb inlet
Sewage
contour
softscape
42. A U.S. government agency responsible for developing and enforcing regulations that guide the use of land and natural resources.
landscape architect
Sewer Main
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
multiple use
43. The conversion of large solid particles of sludge into very fine particles which either dissolve or remain suspended in wastewater.
Overflow Manhole
Trunk System
Sewage
Liquefaction
44. 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.
Main Sewer
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
Catch Basin
cost-benefit analysis
45. 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.
drainage
hardscape
Saturated Soil
Two-Way Cleanout
46. 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
Overflow Manhole
Compaction
Lateral Break
Absorption Capacity
47. A layer - usually of concrete or mortar - for providing continuous support to such items as bricks - slabs - pipes.
Bedding
Infiltrated Debris
Curb Stop
Collection Main
48. The pipes - conduits - structures - equipment - and processes required to collect - convey - and treat domestic and industrial wastes - and dispose of the effluent and sludge.
B T U
environmental impact
Wastewater Facilities
Combined System
49. An opening or point of access in a building wastewater pipe system for rodding or snake operation.
Splash Pad
Wasteline Cleanout
Selector
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
50. 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
Walers
Adhesion
Earth Shift
Soil Displacement
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