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Civil Engineering Vocab

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






2. A coordinating agency formed in 1961 for state boards that administer licensing exams and maintain records for landscape architects to practice.






3. A 19th- and 20th-century planned community traditionally featuring careful mixes of housing - open space - commercial activity and recreation. Examples include Reston - Va. - and Columbia - Md. - in the United States - and Harlow and Stevenage in Gre






4. The man-made creation of or alterations to a specific area - including its natural resources. This is in contrast to the 'natural environment.'






5. A strip of unspoiled - often treed - agricultural or other outlying land used to separate or ring urban areas.






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






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






8. A railing composed of balusters capped by a handrail.






9. Narrowly defined - the amount of countryside and/or city that can be taken in at a glance. Also - an area of land or water taken in the aggregate.






10. 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.






11. 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.






12. A sewer pipe to which building laterals are connected. Also called a COLLECTION MAIN.






13. A trained builder or installer of landscapes - retained to implement the plans of landscape architects.






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






15. Sand - silt - gravel and rocks carried or washed into a collection system by infiltration water flows.






16. 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.'






17. The used household water and watercarried solids that flow in sewers to a wastewater treatment plant. The preferred term is WASTEWATER.






18. A multinational organization of landscape architects whose purpose is the promotion of landscape design and planning.






19. Pertaining to groundwater - a well - or underground basin where the water is under a pressure greater than atmospheric and will rise above the level of its upper confining surface if given an opportunity to do so.






20. A sewer that receives wastewater from many tributary branches or sewers and serves a large territory and contributing population.






21. 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






22. A professional who designs - plans - and manages outdoor spaces ranging from entire ecosystems to residential sites and whose media include natural and built elements; also referred to as a designer - planner - consultant. Not to be confused with lan






23. 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






24. A branch of biology dealing with the relationship between living things and their environment.






25. 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.






26. 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.'






27. The dropping or lowering of the ground surface as a result of removing excess water (overdraft or overpumping) from an aquifer. After excess water has been removed - the soil will settle - become compacted and the ground surface will drop and can cau






28. Water that does not contain objectionable pollution - contamination - minerals - or infective agents and is considered satisfactory for drinking.






29. That part of the precipitation falling on a drainage area which does not escape as surface stream flow during a given period. It is the difference between total precipitation and total runoff during the period - and represents evaporation - transpira






30. 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.'






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






32. A sewer designed to carry both sanitary wastewaters and storm or surface water runoff.






33. A manhole which fills and allows raw wastewater to flow out onto the street or ground.






34. 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






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






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






37. 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.






38. 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






39. Tamping or rolling of a material to achieve a surface or density that is able to support predicted loads.






40. The natural elements with which landscape architects work - such as plant materials and the soil itself.






41. 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.






42. A collection pipe to which building laterals are connected.






43. 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






44. Masonry composed of roughly shaped stones fitting approximately on level beds - well bonded and brought at vertical intervals to continuous level beds of courses.






45. 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






46. A layer - usually of concrete or mortar - for providing continuous support to such items as bricks - slabs - pipes.






47. 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.






48. The pipes - conduits - structures - equipment - and processes required to collect - convey - and treat domestic and industrial wastes - and dispose of the effluent and sludge.






49. A water treatment process in which solid particles settle out of the water being treated in a large clarifier or sedimentation basin.






50. 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.