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"Water Basics" Vocabulary
100

The nation's first solar-powered sports area.

What is " Golden 1 Center"?

100
The letters in TEAP represents this.

What is "Threshold Exceedance Action Plan"?

100

The number of embankments at Bethany Dams.

What is "five"?

100

The letters in JHA represent this. 

What is "Job Hazard Analysis"?

100

A well used to obtain water quality samples or measure groundwater levels.

What is a "monitoring well"?

200

The longest river within California, flowing south for 447 miles.

What is the "Sacramento River"?

200

The letters in DSIT represent this.

What is "Dam Safety Information Tracker"?

200

The DWR Director preceded Karla Nemeth and was famous for getting the old Resource Building windows washed.

Who is "Grant Davis"?

200

The Code of Safe Work Practice Number that you should be familiar with if your inspection involves confined spaces.

What is "8.0"?

200

The flow of water downward from the land surface into and through the upper soil layers.

What is "infiltration"? 

300

In 1848, gold was found in this river, which lead to the Gold Rush.

What is the "American River"?

300

The letters in EDMS represents this.

What is "Electronic Document Management System "?

300

The California Governor that dedicated Oroville Dam on May 5, 1968.

Who is "Ronald Reagan"? 

300

The letters in PPM/RM represent this. 

What is "Portfolio-Project Management/Resource Management"?

300

The gradual movement of water into, through, or from a porous medium; also, infiltration of water into soil from canals, ditches, laterals, watercourses, reservoirs, storage facilities, or other water bodies, or from a field.

What is "seepage"?
400

The number of parks in Sacramento.

What is "30"?

400

The letters in ODSP represent this. 

What is "Owner’s Dam Safety Program"?

400

The two SWP dams that have bolted bulkheads on their low-level outlets that must be removed if one wants to maximize an emergency release.

What is "Pyramid and Perris Dams"?

400

The letters in ASDSO represents this.

What is "Association of State Dam Safety Officials"? 

400

Rainfall, snowmelt, or irrigation water in excess of what can infiltrate the soil surface and be stored in small surface depressions.

What is "runoff"?

500

The year Sacramento was officially established.

What is "1850"?
500

The letters in OCAC represent this. 

What is "Oroville Citizen’s Advisory Commission"?

500

DS_34_02_02 will help instruct you on how to accomplish this common regulatory task.

What is "writing and routing a letter to DSOD"?

500

With respect to their operations, Oroville, Del Valle and Los Banos Detention Dam have this in common.

What is " USACE Flood control criteria"?

500

Any method, technique, or process designed to remove solids and/or pollutants from water or wastewater.  

What is "water treatment"?