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Civil Engineering Vocab
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1. A large - public park - often highly scenic and isolated belonging to and operated by the federal government.
Grease Trap
air rights
national park
new town
2. 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.
Roof Leader
Supersaturated
Lateral Cleanout
Caisson
3. Harmonious use of the land for more than one purpose; not necessarily the combination of uses that will yield the highest economic return - e.g. - a mix of residential and commercial developments in the same area.
Lateral Break
multiple use
Storm Collection System
site plan
4. The used household water and watercarried solids that flow in sewers to a wastewater treatment plant. The preferred term is WASTEWATER.
Sewer
Interceptor
Sewage
Collection System
5. 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.
Curb inlet
Acid Rain
new town
landscape
6. A reactor or basin in which baffles or other devices create a series of compartments. The environment and the resulting microbial population within each compartment can be controlled to some extent by the operator. The environmental conditions (food
Wasteline Cleanout
Selector
Storm Water Inlet
Surcharge Manhole
7. 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.
Easement
Sewer Main
Day Tank
master plan
8. 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
Artificial Groundwater Table
Cross Braces
Storm Sewer
Rubble - Ordinary
9. 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
ground water
Sewer Main
Grease Trap
10. A branch of biology dealing with the relationship between living things and their environment.
Gravity Flow
site plan
manipulation of space
ecology
11. The height to which something is elevated - such as the height above sea level.
Trunk System
Compaction Test
Elevation
Acid Rain
12. 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.
manipulation of space
softscape
American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)
grade
13. 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
softscape
Artificial Groundwater Table
Compaction Test
14. 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.
CADD
built environment
Surface Runoff
agronomy
15. The angle between a horizontal line andthe slope or surface of unsupported material such as gravel - sand -or loose soil. Also called the 'natural slope.'
Angle of Repose
environmental impact
Interceptor
Curb Stop
16. The property of a material or soil that permits considerable movement of water through it when it is saturated.
building (construction) permit
Select Bedding
Permeability
Absorption Capacity
17. A U.S. government agency responsible for developing and enforcing regulations that guide the use of land and natural resources.
Grade
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Elevation
Select Backfill
18. 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.
environmental inventory
Nonpotable
City Beautiful Movement
multiple use
19. Water that may contain objectionable pollution - contamination - minerals - or infective agents and is considered unsafe and/or unpalatable for drinking.
Nonpotable
Sedimentation Basin
Admixture
topography
20. A road laid through a garden or park-like landscape - usually with median and roadside plantings.
Select Backfill
site plan
parkway
Housing and Urban Development - Department of (HUD)
21. A wall that supports any vertical load in addition to its own weight.
Rubble - Ordinary
Clear Well
Invert
Bearing Wall
22. 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.'
Water Table
CADD
Groundwater
building (construction) permit
23. A multinational organization of landscape architects whose purpose is the promotion of landscape design and planning.
International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA)
Two-Way Cleanout
Council of Landscape Architecture Registration Boards (CLARB)
City Beautiful Movement
24. A small tank (usually covered) or a storage facility used to store water for a home or farm. Often used to store rainwater.
Oxidation Ditch
Select Backfill
air rights
Cistern
25. The excess water running off from the surface of a drainage area during and immediately after a period of rain. See STORM RUNOFF.
Soil Pipe
Earth Shift
Sedimentation
Storm Water
26. 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.
Soil Pipe
Bearing
B T U
Catch Basin
27. A capped opening in a building lateral -usually located on the property line - through which the pipelines can be cleaned.
Lateral Cleanout
Mail Line
Runoff
landscape contractor
28. 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
Lift Station
Cross Braces
Soil Pipe
Outlet
29. 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.
Lateral Break
Curb Stop
landscape architecture
Caisson
30. Masonry composed of roughly shaped stones - well bonded and brought at irregular intervals vertically to discontinuous but approximately level beds or courses.
Rubble - Random
Admixture
planned unit development (PUD)
easement
31. A small box-like structure that contains valves used to regulate flows.
Vault
Grade
Absorption Capacity
building (construction) permit
32. 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.
Equalizing Basin
Potable Water
Grade
Lateral Sewer
33. The upper surface of the zone of saturation of groundwater in an unconfined aquifer.
Water Table
Aquifer
Angle Post
Combined System
34. Federal agency responsible for producing and managing many federally-funded public service programs - especially those affecting housing and public spaces.
Forest Service
drainage
Housing and Urban Development - Department of (HUD)
landscape architect
35. A groundwater table that has seasonal changes in depth or elevation.
Seasonal Water Table
Balustrade
Interconnector
softscape
36. A type of easement granting permission to a constructor or developer to build over a street or structure.
air rights
Septic Tank
natural resources
Terminal Manhole
37. A natural underground layer of porous - waterbearing materials (sand - gravel) usually capable of yielding a large amount or supply of water.
Select Bedding
Combined Sewer
building (construction) permit
Aquifer
38. Shoring members placed across a trench to hold other horizontal and vertical shoring members in place.
Infiltrated Debris
Collection Main
Subsidence
Cross Braces
39. 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.
manipulation of space
Retention
Rubble - Coursed
contour
40. 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.
Compaction
Infiltrated Debris
designed landscape
Clear Well
41. A plan for conserving or protecting various natural or manufactured resources. Such a plan is used as a management tool in making decisions regarding soil - water - vegetation - manufactured objects and other resources at a particular site.
Manhole
conservation plan
softscape
Wasteline Vent
42. The movement or dislocation of underground soil or structure. Earth shift is usually caused by external forces such as surface loads - slides - stresses or nearby construction - water movements or seismic forces.
Surcharge Manhole
greenbelt
Earth Shift
Baluster
43. Any designated use or activity on a piece of land.
land use
Earth Shift
Rubble - Random
Elevation
44. 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.
landscape architect
Lateral Sewer
Easement
Estimated Flow
45. 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
Sanitary Sewer
agronomy
Curb Stop
Shear Wall
46. A chamber or well used with storm or combined sewers as a means of removing grit which might otherwise enter and be deposited in sewers. Also see STORM WATER INLET and CURB INLET.
Catch Basin
Capillary Action
Bearing Wall
Lateral Cleanout
47. Downward movement of the soil or of a structure which it supports
Rubble - Random
Handhole Trap
Acidic
Settlement
48. 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.
Hydrostatic Pressure
Sedimentation
Storm Runoff
Combined System
49. An authorization issued by a government agency allowing construction of a project according to approved plans and specifications.
Retention
Council of Landscape Architecture Registration Boards (CLARB)
Settlement
building (construction) permit
50. A layer - usually of concrete or mortar - for providing continuous support to such items as bricks - slabs - pipes.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Supersaturated
Oxidation Ditch
Bedding