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Civil Engineering Vocab
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1. The creative illustration - planning and specification of space for the greatest possible amount of harmony - utility - value and beauty.
design
Laundering Weir
Combined Sewer
landscape architecture registration
2. A small tank (usually covered) or a storage facility used to store water for a home or farm. Often used to store rainwater.
Absorption Capacity
open space
Caisson
Cistern
3. Any method of determining the weight a compacted material is able to support without damage or displacement. Usually stated in pounds per square foot.
B T U
Curb Stop
Compaction Test
Catch Basin
4. 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.
Easement
Angle of Repose
landscape architecture registration
cost-benefit analysis
5. Sedimentation basin overflow weir. A plate with Vnotches along the top to ensure a uniform flow rate and avoid shortcircuiting.
City Beautiful Movement
Retention
planned unit development (PUD)
Laundering Weir
6. 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.
environmental impact
Earth Shift
conservation
natural resources
7. 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.
Day Tank
Baluster
Angle Post
American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)
8. An authorization issued by a government agency allowing construction of a project according to approved plans and specifications.
Subsidence
master plan
building (construction) permit
Earth Shift
9. 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
Absorption Capacity
National Park Service (NPS)
Mail Line
master plan
10. Any designated use or activity on a piece of land.
Compaction
land use
Wasteline Vent
Absorption Capacity
11. 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.
Equalizing Basin
Invert
Supersaturated
A S T M
12. A sewer pipe to which building laterals are connected. Also called a COLLECTION MAIN.
environmental impact
Sewer Main
Admixture
historic preservation
13. The lay of the land - particularly its slope and drainage patterns; the science of drawing maps and charts or otherwise representing the surface features of a region or site - including its natural and man-made features.
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
Storm Runoff
Terminal Manhole
topography
14. A sewer that receives wastewater from many tributary branches or sewers and serves a large territory and contributing population.
cost-benefit analysis
Trunk Sewer
Seasonal Water Table
Storm Water Inlet
15. Load applied along or parallel to and concentric with the primary axis
Collection System
Pump Station
Wastewater Collection System
Axial Load
16. An opening or point of access in a building wastewater pipe system for rodding or snake operation.
Manhole Bedding
Aquifer
Wasteline Cleanout
Impermeable
17. 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.
Aeration
Saturated Soil
landscape architect
Riprap
18. 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.
Saturated Soil
Manhole Bedding
Deadend Manhole
reclamation
19. 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.
Forest Service
American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)
Soil Displacement
Impermeable
20. 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
Combined Wastewater
Angle Post
agronomy
Storm Sewer
21. A pipe or conduit that carries wastewater or drainage water. The term 'collection line' is often used also.
Baffle
Artificial Groundwater Table
Sewer
Select Backfill
22. A U.S. government agency charged with administering vast areas of public land.
Collection Main
conservation
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
Artificial Groundwater Table
23. A coordinating agency formed in 1961 for state boards that administer licensing exams and maintain records for landscape architects to practice.
Council of Landscape Architecture Registration Boards (CLARB)
environmental inventory
Artesian
Cross Braces
24. 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
Baffle
Lift Station
natural resources
Lateral Sewer
25. A water treatment process in which solid particles settle out of the water being treated in a large clarifier or sedimentation basin.
Sedimentation
ecology
Absorption Capacity
Water Table
26. The pipes - conduits - structures - equipment - and processes required to collect - convey - and treat domestic and industrial wastes - and dispose of the effluent and sludge.
Invert
Wastewater Facilities
Balustrade
Combined System
27. The upper surface of the zone of saturation of groundwater in an unconfined aquifer.
Clear Well
Check Valve
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Water Table
28. The property of a material or soil that permits considerable movement of water through it when it is saturated.
Permeability
Shear Wall
Day Tank
landscape contractor
29. Tamping or rolling of a material to achieve a surface or density that is able to support predicted loads.
Rubble - Ordinary
Overflow Manhole
Compaction
Selector
30. In zoning - a housing or commercial development composed of individual units that are regulated as a whole.
environmental design professions
planned unit development (PUD)
Impermeable
Bearing Wall
31. The height to which something is elevated - such as the height above sea level.
Elevation
Water Table
Wastewater
B T U
32. Post at which the railing terminates at each floor level.
Newel Post
Backfill
Storm Runoff
scenic easement
33. A record of each person involved in the handling and possession of a sample from the person who collected the sample to the person who analyzed the sample in the laboratory and to the person who witnessed disposal of the sample.
Chain of Custody
Manhole Bedding
Adhesion
Acid Rain
34. A break in a lateral pipe somewhere between the sewer main and the building connection.
Capillary Action
multiple use
Collection Main
Lateral Break
35. Masonry composed of roughly shaped stones fitting approximately on level beds - well bonded and brought at vertical intervals to continuous level beds of courses.
agronomy
Rubble - Coursed
A S T M
multiple use
36. 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.
Interceptor
base plan
A S T M
Liquefaction
37. 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.
grade
Curb Stop
Overflow Manhole
Imported Backfill
38. The pipeline extending from the water main to the building served or to the consumer's system.
Lateral Break
site plan
Service Pipe
Curb Stop
39. Water that does not contain objectionable pollution - contamination - minerals - or infective agents and is considered satisfactory for drinking.
Potable Water
planned unit development (PUD)
Laundering Weir
Lateral Break
40. A layer - usually of concrete or mortar - for providing continuous support to such items as bricks - slabs - pipes.
softscape
Groundwater
Bedding
Adsorption
41. 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.
Rubble - Random
Wasteline Cleanout
Equalizing Basin
Balustrade
42. 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
Rubble - Ordinary
landscape architecture
national park
Storm Collection System
43. Masonry composed of roughly shaped stones - well bonded and brought at irregular intervals vertically to discontinuous but approximately level beds or courses.
Shear Wall
Rubble - Random
Chain of Custody
design
44. Solid material settled from suspension in a liquid.
Trunk Sewer
Sediment
Adhesion
Chain of Custody
45. Vertical member supporting the railing.
Storm Water Inlet
National Park Service (NPS)
Curb Stop
Baluster
46. A manhole in which the rate of the water entering is greater than the capacity of the outlet under gravity flow conditions. When the water in the manhole rises above the top of the outlet pipe - the manhole is said to be 'surcharged.'
Bedding
A S T M
Trunk Sewer
Surcharge Manhole
47. A railing composed of balusters capped by a handrail.
conservation plan
Terminal Manhole
Balustrade
Sediment
48. The man-made creation of or alterations to a specific area - including its natural resources. This is in contrast to the 'natural environment.'
greenbelt
designed landscape
built environment
Adhesion
49. 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.
Earth Shift
Two-Way Cleanout
Runoff
designed landscape
50. 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.
Manifold
contour
reclamation
building (construction) permit
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