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Civil Engineering Vocab
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1. The pipes - conduits - structures - equipment - and processes required to collect - convey - and treat domestic and industrial wastes - and dispose of the effluent and sludge.
Wastewater Facilities
topography
Liquefaction
Retention
2. Installation of pumps to lift wastewater to a higher elevation in places where flat land would require excessively deep sewer trenches. Also used to raise wastewater from areas too low to drain into available collection lines. These stations may be e
land trust
Surcharge
master plan
Pump Station
3. Masonry composed of roughly shaped stones - well bonded and brought at irregular intervals vertically to discontinuous but approximately level beds or courses.
Settlement
Impermeable
Rubble - Random
Grease Trap
4. 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.
Wastewater Facilities
Weir
Balustrade
Curb inlet
5. 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.
site plan
Manhole
Acidic
manipulation of space
6. A structure made of concrete or other durable material to protect bare soil from erosion by splashing or falling water.
Lateral Sewer
Splash Pad
Interceptor
topography
7. A branch of biology dealing with the relationship between living things and their environment.
ecology
Day Tank
Absorption
ground water
8. The condition of water or soil which contains a sufficient amount of acid substances to lower the pH below 7.0.
Wastewater Treatment Plant
Acidic
landscape
Imported Backfill
9. 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
Surface Runoff
Stratification
Easement
Soil Displacement
10. A natural underground layer of porous - waterbearing materials (sand - gravel) usually capable of yielding a large amount or supply of water.
Potable Water
Aquifer
Axial Load
greenbelt
11. Clarifier - Settling Tank. A tank or basin in which wastewater is held for a period of time during which the heavier solids settle to the bottom and the lighter materials float to the water surface.
Rubble - Random
Septic Tank
Sedimentation Basin
Activated Sludge Process
12. The science and management of land - especially rural - agricultural land.
Elevation
landscape architecture registration
agronomy
Adsorption
13. The slope of a plot of land. Grading is the mechanical process of moving earth changing the degree of rise or descent of the land in order to establish good drainage and otherwise suit the intent of a landscape design.
Saturated Soil
Soil Pipe
grade
Wastewater Collection System
14. 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
Collection System
zoning
Curb inlet
Axial Load
15. Masonry composed of roughly shaped stones fitting approximately on level beds - well bonded and brought at vertical intervals to continuous level beds of courses.
Rubble - Coursed
greenbelt
Lift Station
building (construction) permit
16. 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.
building (construction) permit
Soil Pipe
Cross Braces
contour
17. 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
Storm Collection System
parkway
Absorption
18. 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.
site plan
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Rubble - Ordinary
National Park Service (NPS)
19. 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.'
grade
built environment
Walers
Groundwater
20. A trained builder or installer of landscapes - retained to implement the plans of landscape architects.
planned unit development (PUD)
Earth Shift
landscape contractor
design
21. A sewer that receives wastewater from many tributary branches or sewers and serves a large territory and contributing population.
B T U
Trunk Sewer
cost-benefit analysis
Absorption
22. 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.
Grease Trap
multiple use
Catch Basin
ecology
23. 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.
Storm Runoff
Impermeable
Liquefaction
Artesian
24. A water service shutoff valve located in a water service pipe near the curb and between the water main and the building. This valve is usually operated by a wrench or valve key and is used to start or stop flows in the water service line to a buildin
Liquefaction
Manhole
Curb Stop
Water Table
25. 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.
parkway
designed landscape
Adsorption
Cistern
26. Any designated use or activity on a piece of land.
land use
Baluster
agronomy
contour
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.
Groundwater
Caisson
Impermeable
Earth Shift
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
Sewer Main
Lift Station
Trunk Sewer
Storm Water
29. 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.
Wastewater Collection System
ecology
Manifold
landscape
30. 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.
Backfill
Equalizing Basin
American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)
Riprap
31. 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.
Activated Sludge Process
Main Sewer
Caisson
Earth Shift
32. Record of an area's natural and man-made resources - including vegetation - animal life - geological characteristics and mankind's presence in such forms as housing - highways and even hazardous wastes.
environmental inventory
Combined Wastewater
Estimated Flow
National Park Service (NPS)
33. Narrowly defined - an extended view or prospect from a site which - many times - is as important as or more important than the site itself.
Compaction
view
landscape contractor
Storm Sewer
34. Precipitation which has been rendered (made) acidic by airborne pollutants.
Acid Rain
Interconnector
Walers
landscape architecture registration
35. 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.
land trust
Manifold
air rights
Compaction Test
36. 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.
Supersaturated
Storm Collection System
Rubble - Ordinary
Trunk Sewer
37. 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.
Deadend Manhole
Storm Sewer
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
Clear Well
38. A wall that supports any vertical load in addition to its own weight.
Laundering Weir
Nonpotable
Bearing Wall
zoning
39. 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.
Deadend Manhole
multiple use
environmental inventory
Storm Runoff
40. The taking in or soaking up of one substance into the body of another by molecular or chemical action (as tree roots absorb dissolved nutrients in the soil).
environmental inventory
open space
landscape architecture
Absorption
41. In landscape architecture - a study of the potential cost of site purchase - demolition and improvement in comparison to the income or other benefit to be derived from site development.
Lift Station
cost-benefit analysis
Acidic
Surface Runoff
42. 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.
easement
Storm Sewer
Rubble - Coursed
Equalizing Basin
43. An authorization issued by a government agency allowing construction of a project according to approved plans and specifications.
building (construction) permit
Gravity Flow
air rights
Day Tank
44. The linear or a real dimension over which a higher component transmits load to a lower component
Bearing
Hydrostatic Pressure
Rubble - Ordinary
scenic easement
45. The natural elements with which landscape architects work - such as plant materials and the soil itself.
Acidic
Shear Wall
softscape
Surface Runoff
46. 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.
landscape architect
Interceptor
Stratification
Selector
47. A device that admits surface waters to the storm water drainage system. Also see CURB INLET and CATCH BASIN.
Combined Wastewater
Impermeable
master plan
Storm Water Inlet
48. A device made of pipe fittings used to prevent sewer gases escaping from the branch or lateral sewer from entering a building sewer.
Bearing Wall
Cistern
Handhole Trap
planned unit development (PUD)
49. A groundwater table that has seasonal changes in depth or elevation.
Newel Post
Seasonal Water Table
Select Backfill
Main Sewer
50. A sewer designed to carry both sanitary wastewaters and storm or surface water runoff.
greenbelt
Combined System
Sedimentation Basin
Impermeable