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1. Post at which the railing terminates at each floor level.
Sanitary Sewer
Day Tank
Newel Post
Selector
2. The property of a material or soil that permits considerable movement of water through it when it is saturated.
Angle Post
Roof Leader
multiple use
Permeability
3. A sewer that receives wastewater from many tributary branches or sewers and serves a large territory and contributing population.
Saturated Soil
Imported Backfill
Baluster
Trunk Sewer
4. A legal form of land-use control and building regulations usually exercised by a municipal authority; usually involves setting aside of distinct land areas for specific purposes - such as commercial - educational or residential development.
National Park Service (NPS)
zoning
design
easement
5. 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.
City Beautiful Movement
Soil Displacement
Wastewater Treatment Plant
Catch Basin
6. A strip of unspoiled - often treed - agricultural or other outlying land used to separate or ring urban areas.
landscape
Stratification
Cross Braces
greenbelt
7. 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.
Seasonal Water Table
Potable Water
Settlement
Equalizing Basin
8. 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.
Axial Load
International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA)
Sanitary Sewer
American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)
9. 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.
Shear Wall
Splash Pad
Manhole Vents
Lateral Sewer
10. Shoring members placed across a trench to hold other horizontal and vertical shoring members in place.
Cross Braces
Estimated Flow
topography
Angle of Repose
11. Water that may contain objectionable pollution - contamination - minerals - or infective agents and is considered unsafe and/or unpalatable for drinking.
Nonpotable
Compaction
Baffle
drainage
12. Material used for backfilling a trench or excavation which was not the original material removed during excavation. This is a common practice where tests on the original material show it to have poor compactability or load capacity. Also called BORRO
Potable Water
Interceptor
Imported Backfill
Absorption Capacity
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.
Nonpotable
Sanitary Sewer
contour
Settlement
14. An authorization issued by a government agency allowing construction of a project according to approved plans and specifications.
building (construction) permit
Overflow Manhole
Rubble - Coursed
Impermeable
15. Not easily penetrated. The property of a material or soil that does not allow - or allows only with great difficulty - the movement or passage of water.
Sanitary Sewer
Pump Station
Impermeable
Grade
16. In landscape architecture - an essential sheet showing site boundaries and significant site features - used as a basis for subsequent plan development.
Two-Way Cleanout
base plan
Outlet
scenic easement
17. Sand - silt - gravel and rocks carried or washed into a collection system by infiltration water flows.
ecology
Infiltrated Debris
Wasteline Vent
topography
18. A manhole which fills and allows raw wastewater to flow out onto the street or ground.
Estimated Flow
design
A S T M
Overflow Manhole
19. 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
Secondary Treatment
topography
Retention
Storm Runoff
20. Water or wastewater flowing from a higher elevation to a lower elevation due to the force of gravity. The water does not flow due to energy provided by a pump. Wherever possible - wastewater collection systems are designed to use the force of gravity
Adhesion
land trust
Surface Runoff
Gravity Flow
21. 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.
Interconnector
Combined Sewer
Earth Shift
Outlet
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.
Admixture
Hydrostatic Pressure
master plan
Sedimentation
23. Water that does not contain objectionable pollution - contamination - minerals - or infective agents and is considered satisfactory for drinking.
American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)
Potable Water
Wasteline Vent
Liquefaction
24. Masonry composed of roughly shaped stones fitting approximately on level beds - well bonded and brought at vertical intervals to continuous level beds of courses.
Angle Post
Adhesion
Rubble - Coursed
Newel Post
25. 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.
Datum Line
Cross Braces
Aquifer
City Beautiful Movement
26. 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
Manhole Bedding
Lift Station
Equalizing Basin
Angle Post
27. A collection pipe to which building laterals are connected.
Select Backfill
Sanitary Sewer
Collection Main
Infiltrated Debris
28. A device made of pipe fittings used to prevent sewer gases escaping from the branch or lateral sewer from entering a building sewer.
Absorption
Water Table
Handhole Trap
Infiltrated Debris
29. Downward movement of the soil or of a structure which it supports
Compaction
Splash Pad
Settlement
Acid Rain
30. Any attempt to restore to beneficial use land that has lost its fertility and stability; most often applies to mining reclamation - such as the restoration of strip mines and quarries.
parkway
Baffle
reclamation
Sewer Main
31. A natural underground layer of porous - waterbearing materials (sand - gravel) usually capable of yielding a large amount or supply of water.
Interconnector
Select Backfill
Aquifer
Saturated Soil
32. A sewer designed to carry both sanitary wastewaters and storm or surface water runoff.
Combined System
Gravity Flow
Cistern
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
33. 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
Adhesion
Grease Trap
Manhole
Wastewater Facilities
34. 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.
Bearing
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
CADD
contour
35. 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
built environment
Cistern
air rights
Sanitary Sewer
36. The precipitation that cannot be absorbed by the soil and flows across the surface by gravity. The water that reaches a stream by traveling over the soil surface or falls directly into the stream channels - including not only the large permanent stre
base plan
Trunk System
Collection System
Surface Runoff
37. 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.'
Adsorption
Angle of Repose
Water Table
Manhole Bedding
38. A railing composed of balusters capped by a handrail.
Permeability
Oxidation Ditch
Balustrade
Axial Load
39. 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.
Select Backfill
reclamation
Runoff
Elevation
40. 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.
Lift Station
new town
Interceptor
Collection Main
41. Federal agency responsible for producing and managing many federally-funded public service programs - especially those affecting housing and public spaces.
Collection Main
Housing and Urban Development - Department of (HUD)
Bearing
Subsidence
42. A tank used to store a chemical solution of known concentration for feed to a chemical feeder. A day tank usually stores sufficient chemical solution to properly treat the water being treated for at least one day. Also called an AGE TANK.
Day Tank
Surface Runoff
Artesian
Soil Pipe
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
Imported Backfill
Storm Water
Trunk System
Weir
44. 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
Sediment
Stratification
International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA)
45. The lowest point of the channel inside a pipe - conduit - or canal.
greenbelt
Invert
Artesian
building codes
46. A line from which heights and depths are calculated or measured. Also called a datum plane or a datum level.
Surface Runoff
Datum Line
Compaction Test
Sewage
47. 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.
Saturated Soil
Adhesion
Two-Way Cleanout
land trust
48. A water treatment process in which solid particles settle out of the water being treated in a large clarifier or sedimentation basin.
Sedimentation
Sanitary Sewer
cost-benefit analysis
historic preservation
49. Solid material settled from suspension in a liquid.
Aquifer
Sediment
Admixture
Absorption Capacity
50. 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.
Wastewater Collection System
B T U
Sewer Main
natural resources
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