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Civil Engineering Vocab
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1. 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.'
contour
Manhole
Outlet
built environment
2. A sewer designed to carry both sanitary wastewaters and storm or surface water runoff.
Combined System
building codes
Grade
Supersaturated
3. Elements added to a natural landscape - such as paving stones - gravel - walkways - irrigation systems - roads - retaining walls - sculpture - street amenities - fountains - and other mechanical features.
Impermeable
Bearing Wall
Service Pipe
hardscape
4. 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
Storm Water Inlet
Roof Leader
view
landscape architect
5. An opening or point of access in a building wastewater pipe system for rodding or snake operation.
Potable Water
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
Earth Shift
Wasteline Cleanout
6. Landscape architecture - (civil) engineering - urban planning and architecture. Agronomy is also often included in this group.
environmental design professions
grade
landscape architecture
Lateral Break
7. 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
Surcharge Manhole
Rubble - Random
landscape architecture
hardscape
8. 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
Selector
Water Table
Backfill
Storm Collection System
9. The process of adding air to water. Air can be added to water by either passing air through water or passing water through air. In wastewater treatment - air is added to freshen wastewater and to keep solids in suspension. With mixtures of wastewater
cost-benefit analysis
Stratification
Clear Well
Aeration
10. A layer - usually of concrete or mortar - for providing continuous support to such items as bricks - slabs - pipes.
Angle of Repose
environmental inventory
Subsidence
Bedding
11. A small box-like structure that contains valves used to regulate flows.
Vault
cost-benefit analysis
Secondary Treatment
Roof Leader
12. 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.
Storm Collection System
Equalizing Basin
Artesian
landscape contractor
13. 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.
CADD
Lateral Break
Housing and Urban Development - Department of (HUD)
contour
14. 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
open space
Chain of Custody
Storm Sewer
Baffle
15. 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.
Selector
Mail Line
landscape
Select Bedding
16. 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.
Aquifer
Shear Wall
new town
landscape architecture registration
17. A structure made of concrete or other durable material to protect bare soil from erosion by splashing or falling water.
Splash Pad
Nonpotable
Service Pipe
landscape architecture registration
18. 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.
Manhole
Main Sewer
Lift Station
Rubble - Coursed
19. A line from which heights and depths are calculated or measured. Also called a datum plane or a datum level.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Service Pipe
Housing and Urban Development - Department of (HUD)
Datum Line
20. 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.
building codes
natural resources
Select Backfill
Surcharge Manhole
21. The pipe system for collecting and carrying water and watercarried wastes from domestic and industrial sources to a wastewater treatment plant.
Collection System
Wastewater Collection System
Bedding
Backfill
22. 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.
Bearing Wall
Angle Post
Clear Well
Interconnector
23. A system of major sewers serving as transporting lines and not as local or lateral sewers.
Compaction Test
Trunk System
land trust
Saturated Soil
24. 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
Aeration
drainage
greenbelt
B T U
25. 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.
Chain of Custody
Grease Trap
Sewer
Saturated Soil
26. Federal agency responsible for producing and managing many federally-funded public service programs - especially those affecting housing and public spaces.
zoning
landscape
Manhole Vents
Housing and Urban Development - Department of (HUD)
27. 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.
Compaction Test
Caisson
Subsidence
Clear Well
28. The gathering of a gas - liquid - or dissolved substance on the surface or interface zone of another material. Advanced Waste Treatment (water) n Any process of water renovation that upgrades treated wastewater to meet specific reuse requirements. Ma
Adsorption
planning
Grade
Storm Water
29. American Society for Testing and Materials
Sewer
A S T M
Combined Sewer
building codes
30. A natural underground layer of porous - waterbearing materials (sand - gravel) usually capable of yielding a large amount or supply of water.
Oxidation Ditch
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Soil Displacement
Aquifer
31. 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.
hardscape
Lift Station
new town
conservation
32. 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
building codes
Combined Sewer
Artificial Groundwater Table
33. Material used to fill in a trench or excavation
Manhole Bedding
Elevation
Gravity Flow
Backfill
34. The height to which something is elevated - such as the height above sea level.
drainage
Elevation
B T U
built environment
35. 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.
Deadend Manhole
Angle Post
ground water
Catch Basin
36. A manhole which fills and allows raw wastewater to flow out onto the street or ground.
Overflow Manhole
Manhole Vents
Artesian
Baffle
37. The lowest point of the channel inside a pipe - conduit - or canal.
base plan
Main Sewer
Invert
Selector
38. A U.S. government agency responsible for developing and enforcing regulations that guide the use of land and natural resources.
Invert
B T U
topography
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
39. Water that may contain objectionable pollution - contamination - minerals - or infective agents and is considered unsafe and/or unpalatable for drinking.
Retention
Nonpotable
Runoff
Backfill
40. Post at which the railing terminates at each floor level.
Subsidence
Stratification
Newel Post
Estimated Flow
41. A sewer designed to carry both sanitary wastewaters and storm or surface water runoff.
Combined Sewer
Wasteline Vent
parkway
Storm Runoff
42. Sewers are surcharged when the supply of water to be carried is greater than the capacity of the pipes to carry the flow. The surface of the wastewater in manholes rises above the top of the sewer pipe - and the sewer is under pressure or a head - ra
Surcharge
Day Tank
Easement
master plan
43. 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.
Handhole Trap
building (construction) permit
Manifold
Supersaturated
44. 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
Elevation
conservation
Two-Way Cleanout
Absorption Capacity
45. The creative illustration - planning and specification of space for the greatest possible amount of harmony - utility - value and beauty.
agronomy
design
Potable Water
Outlet
46. Tamping or rolling of a material to achieve a surface or density that is able to support predicted loads.
Groundwater
Compaction
view
City Beautiful Movement
47. 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.
new town
Soil Pipe
Baluster
Acid Rain
48. A manhole located at the upstream end of a sewer and having no inlet pipe. Also called a TERMINAL MANHOLE.
International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA)
Admixture
grade
Deadend Manhole
49. A U.S. government agency charged with administering vast areas of public land.
Groundwater
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
Surcharge Manhole
Trunk Sewer
50. A dimensioned drawing indicating the form of an existing area and the physical objects existing in it and those to be built or installed upon it.
Adsorption
Manhole
Mail Line
site plan