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Civil Engineering Vocab
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1. A railing composed of balusters capped by a handrail.
Service Pipe
Artificial Groundwater Table
Balustrade
building (construction) permit
2. A structure made of concrete or other durable material to protect bare soil from erosion by splashing or falling water.
Select Bedding
Sanitary Sewer
Splash Pad
Walers
3. A relatively clear or forested area left untouched in or near a city. It may be active open space - such as a baseball field - or passive open space - such as an area of natural woodland.
agronomy
Permeability
open space
scenic easement
4. The pipeline extending from the water main to the building served or to the consumer's system.
Service Pipe
Storm Collection System
manipulation of space
Check Valve
5. 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.
Wastewater Collection System
Overflow Manhole
Storm Runoff
Lateral Sewer
6. A device that admits surface waters to the storm water drainage system. Also see CURB INLET and CATCH BASIN.
historic preservation
built environment
Storm Water Inlet
Backfill
7. A large - public park - often highly scenic and isolated belonging to and operated by the federal government.
Collection System
Baluster
national park
planning
8. The legal grant of right-of-use to an area of designated private property.
reclamation
Wastewater
easement
Angle Post
9. 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
Curb Stop
Adsorption
Admixture
zoning
10. 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
Combined System
Stratification
national park
11. Horizontal shoring members - usually square - rough cut timber - that are used to hold solid sheeting - braces or vertical shoring members in place. Also called STRINGERS.
landscape architect
Newel Post
Liquefaction
Walers
12. A structure or chamber which is usually sunk or lowered by digging from the inside. Used to gain access to the bottom of a stream or other body of water.
Septic Tank
Easement
Acidic
Caisson
13. A layer - usually of concrete or mortar - for providing continuous support to such items as bricks - slabs - pipes.
Bedding
Soil Pipe
Wasteline Cleanout
open space
14. 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
Impermeable
Caisson
Compaction Test
Storm Sewer
15. 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.
Walers
Lateral Sewer
manipulation of space
Collection System
16. A road laid through a garden or park-like landscape - usually with median and roadside plantings.
Lift Station
scenic easement
Check Valve
parkway
17. A line from which heights and depths are calculated or measured. Also called a datum plane or a datum level.
Aeration
environmental inventory
Datum Line
Storm Water Inlet
18. 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.
Terminal Manhole
Admixture
Permeability
Sewage
19. A trained builder or installer of landscapes - retained to implement the plans of landscape architects.
landscape contractor
Vault
Earth Shift
Chain of Custody
20. 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
Manhole
Equalizing Basin
Secondary Treatment
Seasonal Water Table
21. 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.
Axial Load
Wasteline Vent
multiple use
Mail Line
22. Masonry composed of irregularly shaped stones laid without regularity of coursing - but well bonded.
Rubble - Ordinary
Storm Sewer
new town
base plan
23. 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.
master plan
landscape architecture registration
Artesian
Lateral Break
24. The movement of water through very small spaces due to molecular forces.
Capillary Action
Manhole
Potable Water
Storm Water
25. A reservoir for the storage of filtered water of sufficient capacity to prevent the need to vary the filtration rate with variations in demand. Also used to provide chlorine contact time for disinfection.
Seasonal Water Table
Datum Line
Clear Well
Compaction
26. A small tank (usually covered) or a storage facility used to store water for a home or farm. Often used to store rainwater.
Cistern
Settlement
Lift Station
Splash Pad
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.
planned unit development (PUD)
Lateral Break
Sewer
Riprap
28. The upper surface of the zone of saturation of groundwater in an unconfined aquifer.
reclamation
Water Table
designed landscape
historic preservation
29. Downstream opening or discharge end of a pipe - culvert - or canal.
Axial Load
Outlet
site plan
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
30. The pipe system for collecting and carrying water and watercarried wastes from domestic and industrial sources to a wastewater treatment plant.
Capillary Action
Wastewater Collection System
Sedimentation
land trust
31. 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
Soil Pipe
Settlement
Main Sewer
Weir
32. A U.S. government agency charged with administering vast areas of public land.
Selector
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
Compaction Test
view
33. 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.
Check Valve
American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)
environmental impact
Sewer Main
34. 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
Hydrostatic Pressure
softscape
Surface Runoff
Combined System
35. 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.'
Aquifer
Storm Runoff
Outlet
Grade
36. A collection pipe to which building laterals are connected.
Service Pipe
Collection Main
Aeration
Wastewater Treatment Plant
37. 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.
drainage
cost-benefit analysis
Artesian
Adsorption
38. The man-made creation of or alterations to a specific area - including its natural resources. This is in contrast to the 'natural environment.'
Invert
built environment
Balustrade
Adhesion
39. The taking in or soaking up of one substance into the body of another by molecular or chemical action (as tree roots absorb dissolved nutrients in the soil).
Storm Sewer
Gravity Flow
Invert
Absorption
40. The height to which something is elevated - such as the height above sea level.
Supersaturated
Rubble - Coursed
Elevation
Aquifer
41. 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.
Artesian
Soil Pipe
Two-Way Cleanout
Sanitary Sewer
42. The used household water and watercarried solids that flow in sewers to a wastewater treatment plant. The preferred term is WASTEWATER.
Acidic
National Park Service (NPS)
Storm Sewer
Sewage
43. Masonry composed of roughly shaped stones fitting approximately on level beds - well bonded and brought at vertical intervals to continuous level beds of courses.
Impermeable
Saturated Soil
Rubble - Coursed
Vault
44. 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.
Walers
Chain of Custody
land trust
new town
45. A tank used to store a chemical solution of known concentration for feed to a chemical feeder. A day tank usually stores sufficient chemical solution to properly treat the water being treated for at least one day. Also called an AGE TANK.
Day Tank
Cross Braces
building (construction) permit
land trust
46. A system of major sewers serving as transporting lines and not as local or lateral sewers.
Main Sewer
Trunk System
City Beautiful Movement
Liquefaction
47. An authorization issued by a government agency allowing construction of a project according to approved plans and specifications.
building (construction) permit
Sewer Main
American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)
grade
48. 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
Retention
Adsorption
Acid Rain
Walers
49. The creative illustration - planning and specification of space for the greatest possible amount of harmony - utility - value and beauty.
grade
Main Sewer
design
Combined System
50. Acronym for 'Computer Aided (i.e. - Assisted) Design and Drafting -' a digital design process in which landscape architects use computers to help produce precise drawings and details for the construction of a project.
Chain of Custody
CADD
drainage
Retention