Clean Water (WW)
Water
Collection Systems
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100

Meaning of TNTC.

What is "Too Numerous to Count"?

100

While converting carbonate (CO32-) back to the original bicarbonate (HCO3-), how does recarbonation affect the pH?

What is: it lowers the pH to about 8.8?

100

Most often the first indication that something is wrong in the collection system. 

What is Customer Complaints?

100

Most likely problem that causes consumer complaints about chlorine taste in their drinking water.  

What is: the chlorine dose is inadequate?

100

The mean of the daily effluent nitrate concentrations for the past 6 days when the daily nitrate measurements were 

     8.2, 5.3, 6.9, 10.1, 2.3, and 2.6 mg/L.  

What is 5.9 mg/L?

200


200

Determines the rate of oxidation of iron and manganese with chloride.

What is Chlorine Residual?

200

The kind of monitoring used to isolate line segments with excessive infiltration.

What is Instantaneous flow monitoring?

200

How a distribution system can be cleared of iron bacteria.

What is Develop a flushing program?

200

Determine the chemical feeder setting in pounds of polyphosphate per day if 0.62 million gallons per day is treated with a dose of 6 milligrams per liter.  

What is 31.0 lb/day?

  • lb/day=MGD×mg/L×8.34

  • 0.62×6=3.72

  • 3.72×8.34=31.0
300

Sensors: The property of a conductor that opposes the passage of a current. 

What is Density?

300

How spent granular activated carbon is reconditioned after breakthrough occurs.  

What is Thermal Reconditioning?

300

The amount of time water quality in nearby waters is monitored after an SSO event.  

What is until no adverse impacts are detected?

300

The permit program that regulates process wastes discharged directly to waters of the US.

What is NPDES?

300

Program that may be needed to address frequent odor complaints. 

What is Hydrogen Sulfide Control?

400

The discharge requirement that is calculated using flow.

What is Biochemical Oxygen Demand?

400

Place in a treatment plant where nitric acid is most commonly used.  

What is the laboratory?

400

Solution to water hammer and negative pressures strong enough to collapse a pipe. 

What is installation of air release valves?

400

A limitation of prechlorination.  

What is:

  It may increase the formation of THMs in raw water. (trihalomethanes)

400

The document that describes strategies, plans and procedures to prepare for & respond to accidents, natural disasters, and malevolent acts?

What is an Emergency Response Plan?

500

The adsorption process that is most commonly used in odor control. 

What is the Physical Process?

500

A sanitary defect that could develop in a fluoridation system.

What is Fluoridation chemical not meeting AWWA specifications? 

500

Describes the vertical distance from a reference point to the water surface when the water is not moving.  

What is static head?

500


500

The most common hydraulic design parameter affecting water velocity in wastewater collection pipes.

That is Slope?