Operations
Health & Safety
Valves & Hydrant
Pipes
Construction
100

This system to monitor and control the dist. sys. from a single screen.

What is SCADA

100

This type of vest is worn by utility employees in a high traffic work zone.

What is a class three safety vest?

100

This visual indicator may identify flow capacity and function of a hydrant.

What is Color?

100

This pipe distributes clean water from pump stations to distribution mains.

What are transmission mains?

100

This unit of measurement is used for backfilling and removal calculations.

What is yards?

200

This action but be taken periodically to test for unhealthy conditions in the system?

What is Sampling?

200

This action must be taken prior to digging in the construction or repair of underground infrastructure.

What is call 811 or Submit locate request?

200

This condition may arise with rapid changes in water velocity caused by valve and hydrant operation.

What is Water Hammer?

200

This type of pipe is obsolete in contemporary distribution systems.

What are wooden or lead pipes?

200

Spoils piles bus be this far from the edge of a trench.

What is two feet?

300

IN Texas this agency is responsible for licensing and permitting.

What is TCEQ?

300

This person is responsible for identifying existing and predictable excavation hazards and taking prompt action.

Who is a Compitent Person?

300

A hydrant flowing 1,000 gallons per minute for 30 minutes will discharge this?

What is 30,000 gallons?

300

This type of pipe provides service from customer main to customer.

What are service lines?

300

The minimum allowable distance between clean water and wastewater carrying pipelines.

What is Nine feet?

400

This Texas State regulation chapter that covers Distribution Systems.

What is the 290?
400

This is the minimum free chlorine that must exist within the distribution system.

What is 0.2 mg/L?

400

This type of valve is the most common type of valve used in distribution systems.

What is a gate valve?

400

This devise is used to collect revenue and may be used to detect household leaks.

What is the water meter?

400

When working at a depth of five feet a trench must have?

What is trench protection system?

500

This is the total storage capacity that a public water system must provide for a single-family residential connection with more than 250 connections.

What is 200 gallons per connection?

500

This element should exist throughout the distribution system.

What is Chlorine?

500

This is the minimum spacing for fire hydrants in a residential area.

What is 500 feet?

500

Friction in a pipeline is measured as coefficient of roughness and is referred to as what factor?

What is C-factor?

500
A passing result of this sample bus be obtained prior to putting new water mains in service every 1000 feet.

What is a bacteriological sample?