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Civil Engineering Vocab
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1. A layer - usually of concrete or mortar - for providing continuous support to such items as bricks - slabs - pipes.
Pump Station
Bedding
national park
Storm Runoff
2. 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.
new town
Equalizing Basin
Two-Way Cleanout
Subsidence
3. 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.
designed landscape
Rubble - Random
Hydrostatic Pressure
Stratification
4. 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.
Impermeable
Main Sewer
Caisson
Lateral Sewer
5. A septic tank or other holding tank which serves as a temporary wastewater storage reservoir for a Septic Tank Effluent Pump (STEP) system. See SEPTIC TANK.
Interceptor
Curb Stop
hardscape
Lateral Cleanout
6. 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.
building codes
Compaction
Hydrostatic Pressure
Lateral Cleanout
7. A strip of unspoiled - often treed - agricultural or other outlying land used to separate or ring urban areas.
reclamation
greenbelt
landscape architect
conservation plan
8. The pipe system for collecting and carrying water and watercarried wastes from domestic and industrial sources to a wastewater treatment plant.
Mail Line
Wastewater Collection System
Runoff
Rubble - Random
9. A system of major sewers serving as transporting lines and not as local or lateral sewers.
hardscape
Combined System
Trunk System
planned unit development (PUD)
10. An authorization issued by a government agency allowing construction of a project according to approved plans and specifications.
designed landscape
Datum Line
landscape architecture
building (construction) permit
11. 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
contour
Absorption
Sediment
12. A sewer that receives wastewater from many tributary branches or sewers and serves a large territory and contributing population.
Trunk Sewer
landscape architecture registration
historic preservation
Subsidence
13. A natural underground layer of porous - waterbearing materials (sand - gravel) usually capable of yielding a large amount or supply of water.
Clear Well
Baffle
Manhole Bedding
Aquifer
14. A U.S. government agency responsible for developing and enforcing regulations that guide the use of land and natural resources.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Bearing Wall
Wastewater Facilities
zoning
15. Masonry composed of roughly shaped stones - well bonded and brought at irregular intervals vertically to discontinuous but approximately level beds or courses.
contour
greenbelt
Acidic
Rubble - Random
16. 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
Wastewater
National Park Service (NPS)
building (construction) permit
Water Table
17. Federal agency responsible for producing and managing many federally-funded public service programs - especially those affecting housing and public spaces.
Oxidation Ditch
Housing and Urban Development - Department of (HUD)
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
environmental design professions
18. Downstream opening or discharge end of a pipe - culvert - or canal.
Wastewater Collection System
Outlet
Earth Shift
historic preservation
19. The creative illustration - planning and specification of space for the greatest possible amount of harmony - utility - value and beauty.
Lateral Sewer
design
ground water
Nonpotable
20. A manhole located at the upstream end of a sewer and having no inlet pipe. Also called a DEADEND MANHOLE.
Supersaturated
parkway
Wasteline Cleanout
Terminal Manhole
21. Opening in a sewer provided for the purpose of permitting operators or equipment to enter or leave a sewer. Sometimes called an 'access hole' or a 'maintenance hole.'
natural resources
Grease Trap
Select Backfill
Manhole
22. 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.
Caisson
Estimated Flow
planning
new town
23. A manhole which fills and allows raw wastewater to flow out onto the street or ground.
Sewer Main
Acid Rain
base plan
Overflow Manhole
24. One or a series of oneinch diameter holes through a manhole lid for purposes of venting dangerous gases found in sewers.
Sanitary Sewer
Settlement
Manhole Vents
view
25. Rain and snow water accumulated in the earth's porous rock.
Cross Braces
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
Housing and Urban Development - Department of (HUD)
ground water
26. 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.
design
City Beautiful Movement
Compaction
Curb inlet
27. Vertical member supporting the railing.
Chain of Custody
Baluster
Newel Post
Subsidence
28. 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
topography
National Park Service (NPS)
planning
29. A large pipe to which a series of smaller pipes are connected. Also called a HEADER.
site plan
Storm Runoff
Manifold
Retention
30. A U.S. government agency charged with administering vast areas of public land.
Rubble - Coursed
Two-Way Cleanout
Elevation
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
31. A railing composed of balusters capped by a handrail.
Surface Runoff
Interconnector
Balustrade
ecology
32. Tamping or rolling of a material to achieve a surface or density that is able to support predicted loads.
Sewer Main
Compaction
Bearing
Grade
33. A device that admits surface waters to the storm water drainage system. Also see CURB INLET and CATCH BASIN.
Adsorption
Backfill
Storm Water Inlet
Lift Station
34. A flat board or plate - deflector - guide or similar device constructed or placed in flowing water or slurry systems to cause more uniform flow velocities - to absorb energy - and to divert - guide - or agitate liquids (water - chemical solutions - s
Baffle
Deadend Manhole
Interconnector
Sewage
35. American Society for Testing and Materials
softscape
Permeability
A S T M
natural resources
36. A network of pipes - manholes - cleanouts - traps - siphons - lift stations and other structures used to collect all wastewater and wastewatercarried wastes of an area and transport them to a treatment plant or disposal system. The collection system
Grease Trap
Collection System
Select Backfill
Storm Collection System
37. A trained builder or installer of landscapes - retained to implement the plans of landscape architects.
Compaction Test
landscape contractor
Soil Displacement
Day Tank
38. 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.
Outlet
landscape architecture registration
Check Valve
site plan
39. Load applied along or parallel to and concentric with the primary axis
softscape
Mail Line
Axial Load
Forest Service
40. Masonry composed of irregularly shaped stones laid without regularity of coursing - but well bonded.
ecology
Chain of Custody
Rubble - Ordinary
Lateral Break
41. 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
National Park Service (NPS)
Riprap
Grease Trap
Select Bedding
42. A sewer designed to carry both sanitary wastewaters and storm or surface water runoff.
zoning
Combined Sewer
conservation
Acid Rain
43. 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
landscape contractor
Water Table
Absorption Capacity
Stratification
44. A wall that resist horizontal forces applied in the plane of the wall.
Adhesion
Shear Wall
Potable Water
Splash Pad
45. Soil that cannot absorb any more liquid. The interstices or void spaces in the soil are filled with water to the point at which runoff occurs.
Sewer
CADD
Saturated Soil
conservation plan
46. British thermal units; the quantity of thermal energy required to raise one pound of water at its maximum density - 1 degree F. One BTU is equivalent to .293 watt hours - or 252 calories. One kilowatt hour is equivalent to 3412 BTU Back Pressure (wat
Wastewater
Elevation
Sewer Main
B T U
47. 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
Collection System
Chain of Custody
Easement
Storm Sewer
48. Landscape architecture - (civil) engineering - urban planning and architecture. Agronomy is also often included in this group.
Subsidence
Wasteline Cleanout
environmental design professions
Angle of Repose
49. The property of a material or soil that permits considerable movement of water through it when it is saturated.
landscape architect
Permeability
Gravity Flow
Collection Main
50. 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
landscape architecture
Sewer Main
Wasteline Vent
Sedimentation