Definitions and Terms
The limits of land which the public owner of the roadway may use for locating utilities.
What is the Right of Way?
To produce safe drinking water and to provide aesthetically pleasing water.
What are the Goals of Water Treatment?
Design of infrastructure that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
What is Sustainability?
An alternate form of transportation that includes busses, trolleys, rail, and ferries.
Identify the outlet, the highpoints, and the saddles along the sides of the water course. Connect these instances where the boundary line crosses contour lines at a right angle.
What is the Method to Delineate a Watershed?
What is a Levee?
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What is a Dike?
An aspect of road design that is based on intended use, desired traffic volume, adjacent land use, and other factors.
What is Design Speed?
Bribery, Extortion, Fraud, Collusion, and Money Laundering.
What are examples of Corruption?
Point where the paths of two through or turning vehicles diverge, merge, or cross.
What are Conflict Points?
The parameter for rate of precipitation.
What is the Rain Intensity?
The pressure that soil or rock exerts in the horizontal direction.
What is Lateral Earth Pressure?
Indicates the likelihood of a precipitation event happening. Used as a design parameter to ensure that flood control structures can withstand an appropriate amount of rainfall.
What is a Recurrence Interval?
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What is a Return Period?
Adaptation, Professional Credentials, Project Rating Levels, MPRs, Categories, Credit Intent & Requirements.
What are components of the LEED Rating System?
They are used for navigation, flood control, hydroelectric power, water supply, and/or recreation.
What is the purpose of a Dam?
A facility that uses heat from combustion or nuclear reactions to produce steam to turn the turbines, generating electricity.
Accumulated solids collected from clarifiers and treated for disposal.
What is Sludge?
This includes runways, taxiways, terminal parking, pavement design, and stormwater management plans.
What are Airport Design Elements?
A nonprofit organization composed of leaders from every sector of the building industry working to promote buildings and communities that are environmentally responsible, profitable, and healthy places to live and work.
What is the USGBC?
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What is the United States Green Building Council?
Something that is considered when determining the speed of a road to ensure drivers are able to stop or maneuver the vehicle in a controlled manner if they see an obstacle blocking their lane.
The total water use of a community divided by the population.
Liquid generated from decomposition of waste and from rainfall.
What is Leachate?
Preliminary, Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary.
What are the Treatment Steps of Wastewater?
Competition, Pressure to Perform, Economic Dependance, and Ignorance of What Constitutes as Unethical Behavior.
What are Motivations for Unethical Behavior?
A costly but very effective means of 'shortcutting' transportation routes for rail or roadways.
What are Tunnels?
A protection plan required on all construction sites to protect the environment from polluted runoff created during construction.
What is the SW3P?