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Civil Engineering Vocab

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1. The change to an area's natural resources - including animal and plant life - resulting from use by man. Some projects may require conducting of an 'environmental impact study' before development can proceed.






2. A relatively clear or forested area left untouched in or near a city. It may be active open space - such as a baseball field - or passive open space - such as an area of natural woodland.






3. Rain and snow water accumulated in the earth's porous rock.






4. 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






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






6. A wall that resist horizontal forces applied in the plane of the wall.






7. The prepared and compacted base on which a manhole is constructed.






8. A road laid through a garden or park-like landscape - usually with median and roadside plantings.






9. An opening or point of access in a building wastewater pipe system for rodding or snake operation.






10. Railing support at landings or other breaks in the stairs. If an angle post projects beyond the bottom of the strings - the ornamental detail formed at the bottom of the post is called the drop.






11. A large - public park - often highly scenic and isolated belonging to and operated by the federal government.






12. A pipe or conduit that carries wastewater or drainage water. The term 'collection line' is often used also.






13. 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.






14. 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.






15. A device made of pipe fittings used to prevent sewer gases escaping from the branch or lateral sewer from entering a building sewer.






16. Broken stones - boulders - or other materials placed compactly or irregularly on levees or dikes for the protection of earth surfaces against the erosive action of waves.






17. A groundwater table that has seasonal changes in depth or elevation.






18. Any method of determining the weight a compacted material is able to support without damage or displacement. Usually stated in pounds per square foot.






19. A wall that supports any vertical load in addition to its own weight.






20. Narrowly defined - an extended view or prospect from a site which - many times - is as important as or more important than the site itself.






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






22. 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.






23. 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.






24. An agency of the U.S. Department of the Interior charged with the planning and administration of all parks and monuments in the federal park system. The NPS is often referred to as the largest single employer of landscape architects in the United Sta






25. A system of major sewers serving as transporting lines and not as local or lateral sewers.






26. 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






27. 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.'






28. 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.






29. 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.






30. Most plumbing codes require a vent pipe connection of adequate size and located downstream of a trap in a building wastewater system. This vent prevents the accumulation of gases or odors and is usually piped through the roof and out of doors.






31. 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.






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






33. A mixture of storm or surface runoff and other wastewater such as domestic or industrial wastewater.






34. An agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture - primarily responsible for planning and overseeing the use of national forest lands by private - commercial and government users.






35. 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






36. Downstream opening or discharge end of a pipe - culvert - or canal.






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






38. American Society for Testing and Materials






39. A special valve with a hinged disc or flap that opens in the direction of normal flow and is forced shut when flows attempt to go in the reverse or opposite direction of normal flows.






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






41. A manhole located at the upstream end of a sewer and having no inlet pipe. Also called a DEADEND MANHOLE.






42. This landscape architecture specialization has evolved to encompass maintenance of a site in its present condition; conservation of a site as part of a larger area of historic importance; restoration of a site to a given date or quality; renovation o






43. 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






44. 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.






45. 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






46. That part of rain or other precipitation that runs off the surface of a drainage area and does not enter the soil or the sewer system as inflow.






47. 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.






48. 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.






49. 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






50. Solid material settled from suspension in a liquid.







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