CHAP 2 C-D Flashcards
plugging an opening with oakum, lead or other materials
that are pounded into the annular space. Also, the material pounded into
the annular opening .
CAULKING
a fitting, screwed or caulked over the end of a pipe for closing the
pipe end.
CAP
- a receptacle in which liquids are retained for ~
suflicient period of time to allow settleable material to deposit.
CATCH BASIN
a person who has
shown compct(‘ncc to test and maintain backtlow assemblies to the
satisfaction of the Administratiw Authority having jurisdiction.
CERTIFIED BACKFLOW ASSEMBLY TESTER
a non-watertight lined excavation in .thl! ground which
receives the discharge of a sanitttry drainage system or part thereof,
d~signed to retain the organic matter and solids discharging thcretrom, 0ut
permitting the li4uid to seep through the bottom and sides of the cesspool.
CESSPOOL
a vertical shaft for installarion of different pipe stacks.
CHASE
a valve that automatically closes to prevent the flow
of liquid or gas in a reverse direction
CHECK VALVE
a group vent pipe which starts in front of the extreme
fixture connection on a h01izontal branch and connects to the vent stack.
Sec loop’ vent, also.
CIRCUIT VENT -
Sec Interceptor.
CLARIFIER
The word ‘‘Code” or “this Code,” when U5ed alone, shall mean
these regulations, subsequent amendments thereto or any emergency rule
or regulation which the Administrative Authority having jurisdiction may
lawfully adopt .
CODE
- sec unit vent and dual vent.
COMMON VENT
a specially
designed system of waste piping embodying the horizontal wet venting of
one or more sinks or floor drains by means of a common horizontal waste
and vent pipe. adequately sized to provide free movement of air above the·
flow line of the drain.
COMBINATION WASTE AND VENT SYSTEM
a structure which any part of it!>
stmctural framework will ignite and burn at a temperature of 756 degrees
centigrade or less.
COMBUSTIBLE CONSTRUCTION
The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC)
COMMISSION
that part of a plumbing system designed and installed to
serve more than one ( 1) appliance, fixture, building or system.
COMMON
a mom or space having a volume less than I 4 cu.
m with 250 kilogram calorie of the aggregate input rating of all fuelbmning applianc~s installed in that space
CONFINED SPACE
an impairment of the quality of the potable water
which creates an actual hazard to the public health through poisoning or
spread of disease by sewage, industrial fluids or waste. Also, defined as
High Hazard.
CONTAMINATION
a continuous vent is vertical vent that is a
continuation of the drain to which the vent connects.
CONTINUOUS VENT
- a drain connecting the compartments of a set of fixtures to a trap or connecting other permitted fixtures to a common
trap.
CONTINUOUS WASTE
- a vertical pipe to convey rainwater
CONDUCTOR OR DOWNSPOUT
- a stop valve placed at the connection of the water service pipe to the water main.
CORPORATION COCK
an open, unoccupied space, bounded on two (2) or more sides
by the walls of the building. An inner court is a court entirely within the
exterior walls of a building. All other courts are outer courts.
COURT
- C-L or C/L marking on a backflow prevention
device or vacuum breaker is a point conforming to approved standards (;:fld
established by the testing laboratory (usually stamped on the device by the
manufacturer) which determines the minimum elevation above the flood
level rim of the fixture or rcceptable served where the device may be
installed. When a backflow prevention device does not bear a critical level
marking, the bottom of the vacuum breaker, combination valve or the
bottom of any such approved device shaH constitute the critical level.
CRITICAL LEVEL
any connection or arrangement, physical or
otherwise, between a potable water supply system and any plumbing
fixture or any tank. receptable, equipment or device, through which
enables non-potable, used, unclean, polluted, contaminated water or other
substances to enter into any part of such potable water system under any
condition.
CROSS-CONNECTION
the Administrative
Authority and includes any other law enforcement agency concerned by any
provision of this Code, whether St1ch agency is specifically named or not.
DEPARTMENT HAVING JURISDICTION
the extended portion of a pipe that is closed at one end to
which no councctions arc made on the exl.cndcd portion, thus permitting the
stagnation of liquid or air therein.
DEAD-END
the length of a pipe along its centerline and fittings.
DEVELOPED LENGTH
- unless specifically stated, the term “diameter’’ is the nominal
diameter as designated commercially. I. D. denotes inside diameter of pipe
and O.D. denotes outside diameter of tube.
DIAMETER
the liquid and water-home wastes derived from
the ordinary living processes, free trom industrial wastes and of such
character that permit satisfactory disposal without special treatment. It is
discharged into the public sewer or into a private sewage disposal system .
DOMESTIC SEWAGE
a pipe fitting with adjacent reverse bends and shaped like the letter “S’’
DOUBLE-BEND FITTING
- two offsets in succession or in series such that the centerlines of the outside ends are in the same straight line .
DOUBLE OFFSET
the vertical portion of a rainwater conductor .
DOWNSPOUT
a pipe, which carries ground and surface waters, stonn water or
wastewater into a building drainage system .
DRAIN
includes all the pipings within public or private
premises which convey sewage or other liquid wastes to a legal point of
disposal but does not include the mains of a public sewer system or a public
sewage treatment or disposal plant.
DRAINAGE SYSTEM
a vent that does not carry liquid or water-borne wastes.
DRY VENT
see unit Vent.
DUAL VENT
- a term used to describe soil or waste system where
all pipings are of threaded pipe, tubing or other such rigid construction using
recessed drainage fittings to con·espond to the types of piping.
DURHAM SYSTEM
