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Civil Engineering Vocab

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1. 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






2. Solid material settled from suspension in a liquid.






3. Subsurface water in the saturation zone from which wells and springs are fed. In a strict sense the term applies only to water below the water table. Also called 'phreatic water' and 'plerotic water.'






4. Landscape architecture - (civil) engineering - urban planning and architecture. Agronomy is also often included in this group.






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






6. 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






7. A device made of pipe fittings used to prevent sewer gases escaping from the branch or lateral sewer from entering a building sewer.






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






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






10. Federal agency responsible for producing and managing many federally-funded public service programs - especially those affecting housing and public spaces.






11. The excess water running off from the surface of a drainage area during and immediately after a period of rain. See STORM RUNOFF.






12. 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.






13. 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.






14. A small box-like structure that contains valves used to regulate flows.






15. A site that might appear to be natural but has elements and features that were planned and specified by a landscape architect. Designed landscapes include Central Park in New York to the siting of buildings.






16. A conservation group that maintains a revolving fund for quickly buying land that is in danger of being developed inappropriately or without regard to proper environmental considerations.






17. 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.






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






19. A downspout or pipe installed to drain a roof gutter to a storm drain or other means of disposal.






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






21. 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.






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






23. 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






24. A road laid through a garden or park-like landscape - usually with median and roadside plantings.






25. Downstream opening or discharge end of a pipe - culvert - or canal.






26. Vertical member supporting the railing.






27. 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.






28. American Society for Testing and Materials






29. A natural underground layer of porous - waterbearing materials (sand - gravel) usually capable of yielding a large amount or supply of water.






30. 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.






31. 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.






32. A community's used water and water carried solids (including used water from industrial processes) that flow to a treatment plant. Storm water - surface water - and groundwater infiltration also may be included in the wastewater that enters a wastewa






33. 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.






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






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






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






37. The force that resists the separation of two bodies in contact.






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






39. 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






40. 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.






41. A professional society that represents landscape architects in the United States and Canada and seeks to better the practice and understanding of landscape architecture through education - research - state registration and other programs.






42. 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.






43. 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.'






44. 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.






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






46. A sewer installed to connect two separate sewers. If one sewer becomes blocked - wastewater can back up and flow through the interconnector to the other sewer.






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






48. 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






49. A type of easement granting permission to a constructor or developer to build over a street or structure.






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