The Clean Water Act
This year the Clean Water Act was passed.
What is 1972?
A permit issued under these regulations is required to discharge wastewater to the waters of the state.
What is a 22a-430 permit?
This is the first stage of treatment, where large solids are removed.
What is primary treatment?
This Julia Roberts film dramatized a water contamination case in Hinkley, California concerning Cr6+.
What is Erin Brockovich?
This Connecticut agency was created in 1971 to oversee environmental protection and conservation.
What is the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP)?
(Now known as DEEP)
This federal agency is primarily responsible for enforcing the Clean Water Act.
What is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?
This term refers to any substance that alters the physical, chemical, or biological properties of water.
What is a pollutant?
This biological process uses bacteria to break down organic material.
What is secondary treatment (or activated sludge)?
This animated film features a fish named Marlin navigating polluted waters.
What is Finding Nemo?
The infamous pollution of this Connecticut river led to lawsuits and helped spur the Clean Water Act.
What is the Naugatuck River?
This term refers to any discernible, confined, and discrete conveyance, such as a pipe or ditch.
What is a point source?
Permits must be renewed at this interval (in years).
What is about five years?
This is the amount of oxygen microorganisms need to break down organic matter in water—an essential indicator of pollution.
What is Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD)?
Kevin Costner starred in this post-apocalyptic water-themed movie.
What is Waterworld?
This Connecticut law, passed in 1971, was one of the first comprehensive state environmental protection acts.
What is the Connecticut Environmental Policy Act (CEPA)?
This permit program regulates discharges of pollutants into U.S. waters.
What is the NPDES (National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System)?
According to CT Regs §22a-430-3, permittees must notify DEEP of bypasses and upsets within this number of hours.
What is 2 hours?
(If discovered during normal business hours. Otherwise, as soon as possible.)
This nutrient, commonly found in fertilizers and human waste, must often be removed to prevent eutrophication.
What is nitrogen?
(Also acceptable: What is phosphorus?)
This 2019 Mark Ruffalo film tells the true story of PFAS contamination.
What is Dark Waters?
This town in Connecticut was the site of extensive mercury contamination due to hat manufacturing in the 19th century.
What is Danbury?
(Nickname: "Hat City" – known for the "Mad Hatter" mercury poisoning cases)
This section of the Clean Water Act requires states to identify impaired waters and develop Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) for pollutants.
What is Section 303(d)?
CT regs define this as a structure, excavation or other facility designed to allow settled sewage to percolate into the underlying soil, without overflow, and to mix with the groundwater.
What is Leaching System
Alkaline chlorination is a chemical treatment process commonly used in industry to break down this highly toxic contaminant, often found in electroplating and mining wastewater.
What is CN
In The Office, this character accidentally contaminates a lake with a printer.
Who is Dwight Schrute?
This Connecticut town, heavily impacted by chemical and rubber manufacturing from the early 1900s through the 1980s, is best known for contamination caused by the Uniroyal Chemical Company.
What is Naugatuck