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Civil Engineering Vocab
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1. 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.
Pump Station
Wasteline Vent
drainage
Lateral Cleanout
2. A community's used water and water carried solids (including used water from industrial processes) that flow to a treatment plant. Storm water - surface water - and groundwater infiltration also may be included in the wastewater that enters a wastewa
Storm Water Inlet
Wastewater
softscape
Two-Way Cleanout
3. An opening or point of access in a building wastewater pipe system for rodding or snake operation.
Outlet
Wasteline Cleanout
view
Compaction Test
4. Horizontal shoring members - usually square - rough cut timber - that are used to hold solid sheeting - braces or vertical shoring members in place. Also called STRINGERS.
reclamation
Walers
Manhole Vents
Deadend Manhole
5. A small box-like structure that contains valves used to regulate flows.
national park
Combined Sewer
Day Tank
Vault
6. Material used in backfilling of an excavation - selected for desirable compaction or other characteristics.
Select Backfill
Cistern
manipulation of space
site plan
7. The pipe system for collecting and carrying water and watercarried wastes from domestic and industrial sources to a wastewater treatment plant.
Nonpotable
building (construction) permit
Wastewater Collection System
Splash Pad
8. 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.
Infiltrated Debris
Manhole Vents
Supersaturated
Equalizing Basin
9. A rough guess of the amount of flow in a collection system. When greater accuracy is needed - flow could be computed using average or typical flow quantities. Even greater accuracy would result from metering or otherwise measuring the actual flow.
Estimated Flow
Rubble - Ordinary
conservation plan
Combined System
10. A large pipe to which a series of smaller pipes are connected. Also called a HEADER.
Manifold
agronomy
Wastewater
zoning
11. 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.
contour
new town
multiple use
Service Pipe
12. The pipes - conduits - structures - equipment - and processes required to collect - convey - and treat domestic and industrial wastes - and dispose of the effluent and sludge.
Manhole Bedding
Catch Basin
Wastewater Facilities
Backfill
13. A 19th- and 20th-century planned community traditionally featuring careful mixes of housing - open space - commercial activity and recreation. Examples include Reston - Va. - and Columbia - Md. - in the United States - and Harlow and Stevenage in Gre
Pump Station
contour
drainage
new town
14. 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
Cross Braces
Saturated Soil
Combined Sewer
15. 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.
Equalizing Basin
Settlement
Wasteline Vent
Deadend Manhole
16. 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
Retention
Surface Runoff
land use
17. A U.S. government agency charged with administering vast areas of public land.
Sewer Main
International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA)
Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
Angle of Repose
18. A water treatment process in which solid particles settle out of the water being treated in a large clarifier or sedimentation basin.
Bearing Wall
Sedimentation
Impermeable
Terminal Manhole
19. The man-made creation of or alterations to a specific area - including its natural resources. This is in contrast to the 'natural environment.'
Retention
Easement
softscape
built environment
20. A structure made of concrete or other durable material to protect bare soil from erosion by splashing or falling water.
Splash Pad
conservation
site plan
Adsorption
21. The creative illustration - planning and specification of space for the greatest possible amount of harmony - utility - value and beauty.
Gravity Flow
greenbelt
Compaction Test
design
22. An authorization issued by a government agency allowing construction of a project according to approved plans and specifications.
Capillary Action
Bearing
building (construction) permit
Laundering Weir
23. 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.
multiple use
Angle Post
CADD
Overflow Manhole
24. 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.
Housing and Urban Development - Department of (HUD)
American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)
Balustrade
Main Sewer
25. 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.
Earth Shift
Secondary Treatment
Baffle
Artesian
26. Downward movement of the soil or of a structure which it supports
Vault
Settlement
Nonpotable
Newel Post
27. 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
Day Tank
National Park Service (NPS)
multiple use
Rubble - Ordinary
28. A wastewater treatment process used to convert dissolved or suspended materials into a form more readily separated from the water being treated. Usually the process follows primary treatment by sedimentation. The process commonly is a type of biologi
Wastewater
Secondary Treatment
planned unit development (PUD)
Impermeable
29. 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.
parkway
Saturated Soil
national park
easement
30. A system of major sewers serving as transporting lines and not as local or lateral sewers.
Seasonal Water Table
building codes
Laundering Weir
Trunk System
31. 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.
Interconnector
Easement
land trust
view
32. An arrangement of pipes - equipment - devices - tanks and structures for treating wastewater and industrial wastes. A water pollution control plant.
Wastewater Treatment Plant
building codes
Council of Landscape Architecture Registration Boards (CLARB)
environmental impact
33. One or a series of oneinch diameter holes through a manhole lid for purposes of venting dangerous gases found in sewers.
Manhole Vents
Storm Runoff
Absorption Capacity
Easement
34. A manhole located at the upstream end of a sewer and having no inlet pipe. Also called a DEADEND MANHOLE.
Terminal Manhole
designed landscape
Handhole Trap
Cross Braces
35. The excess water running off from the surface of a drainage area during and immediately after a period of rain. See STORM RUNOFF.
Equalizing Basin
Axial Load
Storm Water
building (construction) permit
36. Shoring members placed across a trench to hold other horizontal and vertical shoring members in place.
Interceptor
Cross Braces
Trunk Sewer
Aquifer
37. A downspout or pipe installed to drain a roof gutter to a storm drain or other means of disposal.
Baluster
Mail Line
Roof Leader
Collection Main
38. A device that admits surface waters to the storm water drainage system. Also see CURB INLET and CATCH BASIN.
contour
Wastewater
Angle Post
Storm Water Inlet
39. 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
contour
Adsorption
Imported Backfill
environmental design professions
40. 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.
Storm Water
designed landscape
Two-Way Cleanout
Artificial Groundwater Table
41. Rain and snow water accumulated in the earth's porous rock.
ground water
Angle Post
Forest Service
Water Table
42. 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.
International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA)
Chain of Custody
Acid Rain
Grade
43. The natural elements with which landscape architects work - such as plant materials and the soil itself.
easement
Wastewater
Septic Tank
softscape
44. A flat board or plate - deflector - guide or similar device constructed or placed in flowing water or slurry systems to cause more uniform flow velocities - to absorb energy - and to divert - guide - or agitate liquids (water - chemical solutions - s
Baffle
Storm Runoff
Aeration
Elevation
45. A large - public park - often highly scenic and isolated belonging to and operated by the federal government.
Soil Pipe
Compaction Test
national park
Storm Sewer
46. 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
Curb Stop
Easement
Secondary Treatment
building codes
47. 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.
Day Tank
landscape contractor
Impermeable
Check Valve
48. The prepared and compacted base on which a manhole is constructed.
Storm Water
Overflow Manhole
Absorption Capacity
Manhole Bedding
49. 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.
Select Backfill
master plan
Sedimentation Basin
Balustrade
50. 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.
Combined Wastewater
Pump Station
Seasonal Water Table
Runoff