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Civil Engineering Vocab
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1. 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
National Park Service (NPS)
Datum Line
Balustrade
Catch Basin
2. 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.
Curb inlet
Day Tank
Sediment
Cross Braces
3. The dropping or lowering of the ground surface as a result of removing excess water (overdraft or overpumping) from an aquifer. After excess water has been removed - the soil will settle - become compacted and the ground surface will drop and can cau
CADD
Storm Sewer
planning
Subsidence
4. The height to which something is elevated - such as the height above sea level.
Subsidence
Elevation
Sanitary Sewer
Sedimentation
5. A U.S. government agency responsible for developing and enforcing regulations that guide the use of land and natural resources.
Absorption Capacity
conservation plan
Two-Way Cleanout
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
6. 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 Collection System
Curb inlet
Stratification
Storm Water
7. Downstream opening or discharge end of a pipe - culvert - or canal.
Sewer Main
Outlet
Caisson
planning
8. 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.
Runoff
CADD
Caisson
Aquifer
9. Vertical member supporting the railing.
Catch Basin
Combined Sewer
Elevation
Baluster
10. A material - other than aggregate - cementitious material or water - added in small quantities to the mix in order to produce some (desired) modifications - either to the properties of the mix or of the hardened product.
Axial Load
Water Table
Admixture
conservation
11. 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
Absorption Capacity
B T U
conservation plan
12. The force that resists the separation of two bodies in contact.
Estimated Flow
Sedimentation
Bearing
Adhesion
13. Water that may contain objectionable pollution - contamination - minerals - or infective agents and is considered unsafe and/or unpalatable for drinking.
International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA)
Splash Pad
Nonpotable
air rights
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
Impermeable
Storm Sewer
Interconnector
Check Valve
15. A manhole located at the upstream end of a sewer and having no inlet pipe. Also called a DEADEND MANHOLE.
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
Caisson
Terminal Manhole
Wasteline Cleanout
16. A biological wastewater treatment process which speeds up the decomposition of wastes in the wastewater being treated. Activated sludge is added to wastewater and the mixture (mixed liquor) is aerated and agitated. After some time in the aeration tan
softscape
Oxidation Ditch
Lateral Sewer
Activated Sludge Process
17. Solid material settled from suspension in a liquid.
Sediment
Supersaturated
Secondary Treatment
Combined Wastewater
18. The man-made creation of or alterations to a specific area - including its natural resources. This is in contrast to the 'natural environment.'
Imported Backfill
Septic Tank
ground water
built environment
19. 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
Gravity Flow
Easement
Lift Station
Aquifer
20. 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.
Earth Shift
new town
landscape
Caisson
21. Tamping or rolling of a material to achieve a surface or density that is able to support predicted loads.
Compaction
Sewer Main
Cistern
Overflow Manhole
22. A sewer designed to carry both sanitary wastewaters and storm or surface water runoff.
Trunk Sewer
Grease Trap
Combined Sewer
Runoff
23. The excess water running off from the surface of a drainage area during and immediately after a period of rain. See STORM RUNOFF.
ground water
Storm Water
Easement
Overflow Manhole
24. 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
landscape architect
Curb Stop
Select Backfill
Permeability
25. 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
Admixture
Combined System
Angle Post
Adsorption
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
softscape
Council of Landscape Architecture Registration Boards (CLARB)
Selector
Curb inlet
27. A wall that supports any vertical load in addition to its own weight.
conservation plan
Bearing Wall
Stratification
Compaction
28. In landscape architecture - an essential sheet showing site boundaries and significant site features - used as a basis for subsequent plan development.
Impermeable
base plan
Clear Well
Wasteline Vent
29. 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.
Absorption Capacity
Lateral Sewer
Handhole Trap
contour
30. The condition of water or soil which contains a sufficient amount of acid substances to lower the pH below 7.0.
Storm Water Inlet
Clear Well
Acidic
Collection Main
31. A type of easement granting permission to a constructor or developer to build over a street or structure.
International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA)
conservation plan
air rights
Deadend Manhole
32. 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.
Storm Runoff
conservation
Walers
Riprap
33. 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.
cost-benefit analysis
Caisson
Chain of Custody
Rubble - Random
34. Rain and snow water accumulated in the earth's porous rock.
Collection System
Soil Pipe
Outlet
ground water
35. 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.
softscape
hardscape
environmental design professions
Invert
36. Any designated use or activity on a piece of land.
Weir
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
land use
Overflow Manhole
37. 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.
landscape architect
Handhole Trap
Stratification
Curb Stop
38. A sewer pipe to which building laterals are connected. Also called a COLLECTION MAIN.
Sewer Main
Vault
Absorption
easement
39. The prepared and compacted base on which a manhole is constructed.
Service Pipe
Water Table
Handhole Trap
Manhole Bedding
40. Precipitation which has been rendered (made) acidic by airborne pollutants.
greenbelt
Acid Rain
Trunk System
Manhole
41. Masonry composed of irregularly shaped stones laid without regularity of coursing - but well bonded.
softscape
reclamation
Rubble - Ordinary
Trunk Sewer
42. The movement of water through very small spaces due to molecular forces.
Weir
Manhole Bedding
Capillary Action
Caisson
43. 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.
Collection Main
Grease Trap
Weir
Impermeable
44. A manhole located at the upstream end of a sewer and having no inlet pipe. Also called a TERMINAL MANHOLE.
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
air rights
Combined System
Deadend Manhole
45. A railing composed of balusters capped by a handrail.
open space
Bedding
Groundwater
Balustrade
46. 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
Retention
Housing and Urban Development - Department of (HUD)
Potable Water
Runoff
47. 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.
hardscape
land trust
Groundwater
Chain of Custody
48. A strip of unspoiled - often treed - agricultural or other outlying land used to separate or ring urban areas.
Baffle
Soil Displacement
greenbelt
Sanitary Sewer
49. 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.
Shear Wall
environmental inventory
A S T M
agronomy
50. Any method of determining the weight a compacted material is able to support without damage or displacement. Usually stated in pounds per square foot.
Absorption
Storm Collection System
Acidic
Compaction Test
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