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Civil Engineering Vocab
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1. 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.
Soil Pipe
reclamation
Bearing Wall
Lateral Cleanout
2. A line from which heights and depths are calculated or measured. Also called a datum plane or a datum level.
grade
Datum Line
reclamation
Saturated Soil
3. 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.
Absorption
Bearing
Water Table
environmental inventory
4. 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.
Clear Well
Angle of Repose
Settlement
Groundwater
5. The movement of water through very small spaces due to molecular forces.
easement
Caisson
Selector
Capillary Action
6. Federal agency responsible for producing and managing many federally-funded public service programs - especially those affecting housing and public spaces.
Soil Displacement
zoning
Shear Wall
Housing and Urban Development - Department of (HUD)
7. Any designated use or activity on a piece of land.
land use
A S T M
Council of Landscape Architecture Registration Boards (CLARB)
Bearing Wall
8. 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.
ecology
Equalizing Basin
Sediment
Liquefaction
9. A sewer pipe to which building laterals are connected. Also called a COLLECTION MAIN.
planned unit development (PUD)
Vault
Angle of Repose
Sewer Main
10. 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.
Shear Wall
Surcharge
conservation
Capillary Action
11. Any method of determining the weight a compacted material is able to support without damage or displacement. Usually stated in pounds per square foot.
Curb Stop
building (construction) permit
Compaction Test
Bearing Wall
12. The force that resists the separation of two bodies in contact.
National Park Service (NPS)
Adhesion
Check Valve
Mail Line
13. 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
Oxidation Ditch
Nonpotable
Combined System
environmental design professions
14. American Society for Testing and Materials
Nonpotable
A S T M
Sewage
Soil Pipe
15. Narrowly defined - an extended view or prospect from a site which - many times - is as important as or more important than the site itself.
Sanitary Sewer
view
multiple use
Cistern
16. 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.
natural resources
Storm Runoff
City Beautiful Movement
contour
17. 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.
Sedimentation Basin
Deadend Manhole
Caisson
Datum Line
18. 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
Artificial Groundwater Table
air rights
parkway
ground water
19. 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
Grade
Cistern
Balustrade
20. The natural elements with which landscape architects work - such as plant materials and the soil itself.
softscape
hardscape
drainage
Walers
21. A legal form of land-use control and building regulations usually exercised by a municipal authority; usually involves setting aside of distinct land areas for specific purposes - such as commercial - educational or residential development.
zoning
Invert
Lateral Break
design
22. A receptacle designed to collect and retain grease and fatty substances usually found in kitchens or from similar wastes. It is installed in the drainage system between the kitchen or other point of production of the waste and the building wastewater
cost-benefit analysis
Grease Trap
master plan
Curb Stop
23. The elements of supply inherent to an area that can be used to satisfy human needs - including air - soil - water - native vegetation - minerals and wildlife.
natural resources
Estimated Flow
topography
planning
24. A manhole which fills and allows raw wastewater to flow out onto the street or ground.
Sewage
Overflow Manhole
Splash Pad
Chain of Custody
25. 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).
ecology
Seasonal Water Table
ground water
Absorption
26. 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
Pump Station
Weir
Gravity Flow
Wastewater
27. A large - public park - often highly scenic and isolated belonging to and operated by the federal government.
Lateral Sewer
national park
Supersaturated
Surcharge
28. 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.
Supersaturated
environmental impact
Angle Post
Compaction Test
29. 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
B T U
Absorption Capacity
Imported Backfill
cost-benefit analysis
30. This landscape architecture specialization has evolved to encompass maintenance of a site in its present condition; conservation of a site as part of a larger area of historic importance; restoration of a site to a given date or quality; renovation o
Select Bedding
Sedimentation Basin
Septic Tank
historic preservation
31. 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.
open space
Manhole
building codes
Absorption
32. A pipe or conduit that carries wastewater or drainage water. The term 'collection line' is often used also.
grade
Main Sewer
Manhole
Sewer
33. A layer - usually of concrete or mortar - for providing continuous support to such items as bricks - slabs - pipes.
site plan
Wastewater Treatment Plant
Bedding
Earth Shift
34. The pipe system for collecting and carrying water and watercarried wastes from domestic and industrial sources to a wastewater treatment plant.
Manifold
Wastewater Collection System
land use
Elevation
35. 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.
Compaction Test
Main Sewer
Selector
Oxidation Ditch
36. Material used to provide a bedding or foundation for pipes or other underground structures. This material is of specified quality for desirable bedding or other characteristics and is often imported from a different location.
building codes
Select Bedding
parkway
Deadend Manhole
37. 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
Secondary Treatment
building codes
ecology
Angle Post
38. A type of easement granting permission to a constructor or developer to build over a street or structure.
Sedimentation
topography
air rights
Day Tank
39. A coordinating agency formed in 1961 for state boards that administer licensing exams and maintain records for landscape architects to practice.
site plan
American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)
easement
Council of Landscape Architecture Registration Boards (CLARB)
40. A system used where wastewater collection systems and treatment plants are not available. The system is a settling tank in which settled sludge is in intimate contact with the wastewater flowing through the tank and the organic solids are decomposed
Septic Tank
Easement
national park
Wastewater Collection System
41. A collection pipe to which building laterals are connected.
Combined Sewer
Wasteline Vent
Combined System
Collection Main
42. The condition of water or soil which contains a sufficient amount of acid substances to lower the pH below 7.0.
easement
Two-Way Cleanout
Acidic
Manhole Bedding
43. 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
planning
landscape architecture
environmental impact
topography
44. A sewer that receives wastewater from many tributary branches or sewers and serves a large territory and contributing population.
Wasteline Cleanout
Cistern
scenic easement
Trunk Sewer
45. The used household water and watercarried solids that flow in sewers to a wastewater treatment plant. The preferred term is WASTEWATER.
Invert
Sewage
Housing and Urban Development - Department of (HUD)
Collection System
46. An arrangement of pipes - equipment - devices - tanks and structures for treating wastewater and industrial wastes. A water pollution control plant.
Lateral Sewer
Wastewater Treatment Plant
Lift Station
Runoff
47. The formation of separate layers (of temperature - plant - or animal life) in a lake or reservoir. Each layer has similar characteristics such as all water in the layer has the same temperature. Also see THERMAL STRATIFICATION.
Stratification
Admixture
Shear Wall
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
48. 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
Infiltrated Debris
Lift Station
conservation plan
Groundwater
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.
Trunk System
contour
Grade
Potable Water
50. 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.
design
Day Tank
CADD
B T U