Corpus Christi Water System
CCW operates this many wastewater treatment plants across its service area.
What is 6?
This state agency oversees water planning and financing for water projects in Texas.
What is the Texas Water Development Board (TWDB)
Unwanted reversal of water flow in a plumbing system
What is backflow?
This process removes harmful pollutants from industrial wastewater before it enters the sewer system.
What is pretreatment?
What is the chemical formula for water
H2O
CCW provides water and wastewater services to this many counties.
What is 7?
Texas has this many major river basins, including the Rio Grande and Brazos Rivers.
What is 15?
What is the chemical that disinfects potable water?
Chlorine
The term for the unauthorized discharge of untreated wastewater from a sanitary sewer system.
What is a Sanitary Sewer Overflow (SSO)?
Two types of bore drilling methods
Horizontal Directional Drilling
Auger Boring
Percussion Drilling
Rotary Drilling
These are the 4 surface water sources that supply CCW's system.
What are Lake Corpus Christi, Choke Canyon Reservoir, Colorado River, and Lake Texana?
This state agency is responsible for enforcing rules about Public Water Systems in Texas.
What is the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ)?
This device is installed to prevent contaminants from entering potable water.
What is a backflow prevention assembly?
What is a clarifier's main operation in a wastewater treatment plant?
To separate water from solids by gravity settling.
A gallon of water weighs approximately this many pounds.
What is 8.34 pounds?
Along with Lake Corpus Christi, water is drawn from this canyon reservoir system in the Nueces River Basin.
What is the Choke Canyon Reservoir?
This lake is Texas' most prominent naturally formed lake
Caddo Lake
The maximum spacing shall be no more than 600-feet on center.
The term for the final, "polishing," stage of wastewater treatment
Tertiary treatment
What is the minimum pressure in the distribution system required by TCEQ during firefighting operations
20 PSI
Water from the Colorado River is transferred to this lake via the Mary Rhodes Pipeline before reaching Corpus Christi.
What is Lake Texana.
Per TCEQ chapter 290; what are the required colors of pipe for Potable Water, Chlorine Gas, and Raw Water?
Potable = Light Blue
Chlorine Gas = Yellow
Raw Water = Tan
This U.S. law was passed in 1974 to protect public health by regulating drinking water.
What is the Safe Drinking Water Act?
This measurement indicates the amount of oxygen needed by microorganisms to break down organic matter in water
biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD)
What does the Mannings formula give you?
Average flow velocity of water in an open channel