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100

What floor of the Bryan building is the Tahoe conference room?

What is the 2nd floor?

100

What are the two types of operator certifications a person can get?

What are treatment and distribution?

100

What is this oldest city in Georgia, also known for its hanging Spanish moss?

What is Savannah?

100

How many years should laboratories retain all original observations, calculations, and derived data?

What is 5 years?

100

There is a group of chemical compounds known as Endocrine Disruptors that interfere with an organism’s endocrine system leading to issues in development, reproduction, immune system, nervous system, and are carcinogenic. Can you name 2 endocrine disrupting compounds or compound families??

What are pesticides, heavy metals (lead, arsenic, etc.), DDT, PCB, perchlorate, some disinfection by-products, hormones in waste/drinking water, dioxins, prescription human metabolites...

200

Who in the office receives environmental reviews and vulnerability assessments?

Who is Brendon?

200

What was the % passing rate for grade one in the 2nd Quarter of 2022?

What is 45%?

200

What is the largest ice shelf in Antarctica, or place where you can dress for less?

What is a ross?

200

How many labs in Nevada are currently certified to run PFAS?

What is 0?

200

What is BAT in reference to water treatment technologies?

What is Best Available Technology?

 

300

Who or what is DAWN?

What is the Data Warehouse of Nevada?

300

How much experience do you need to have to take an Operator In Training exam?

What is none?

300

What is a large, flightless bird native to South America?

What is a rhea?

300

How many passing Proficiency tests per an analyte/method/matrix need to be submitted to the Nevada Laboratory Certification Program per year to be certified?

What is 2?

300

What is the current MCL for Arsenic?

What is 10 micrograms per milliliter (ppm)? 

Since 2006 – before the new Arsenic Rule in 2006, it was 50 ppm.

400

What mass mailing goes out in February and November?

What are the monitoring reports? (MRs)

400

What is the experience requirement for a Grade 4 certification?

What is 4 years of experience with 1 year of Grade 3 full certification?

400

What is the other type of screwdriver, not regular?

What is a phillips?

400

Colilert is an enzyme substrate medium used to test for total coliforms and E. coli. What color change after incubation with this media would indicate a total coliform positive test?

What is yellow?

400

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

What is a woodchuck would chuck as much wood as a woodchuck would if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

500

What is the phone number for Safe Drinking Water's main line?

What is 775.687.9521?

500

How many Continue Education Units (CEUs) does a grade 1 operator need to renew certification?

What is 7 hours?

500

What is a type of shaft converts rotational motion to reciprocal motion?

What is a cam shaft?

500

Cryptosporidium is a protozoan parasite regulated under the Surface Water Treatment Rule. Where in Nevada is one of the two labs certified for Cryptosporidium testing located?

What are 

Southern Nevada Water Authority - Las Vegas, NV

or

Truckee Meadows Water Authority- Sparks, NV?

500

There is a lot of discussion about “forever chemicals”, most notably PFAS – what does PFAS stand for?

What are Per- and Poly - Fluoroalkyl substances?

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