Water Quality/Lab
A document found in each SCWA Laboratory that states the management policies, objective, principle, organizational structure/authority, responsibilities, accountability and implementation of an agency, organization, or laboratory, to ensure the quality and utility of the product to its users
What is the Laboratory Quality Manual?
This is a process control application that collects data from sensors and machines on the shop floor or in remote locations and sends them to a central computer for management and control.
What is SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition)?
The amount of times a year Safety calibrates the oxygen and chlorine meters for confined space testing.
What is 2 times a year?
The Suffolk County Water Authority began operations with acquisition of THIS Water Company:
What is South Bay Consolidated Water Company?
The campaign made under the Long Island Commission for Aquifer Protection to spread awareness of aquifer protection and water conservation.
What is Our Water Our Lives?
THIS department in the SCWA lab uses the method of membrane filtration to help in identifying any E. coli and total coliform growth on agar plates from water samples:
What is The Bacteriology Lab?
All electrical lines underground must be marked out on the road in THIS color:
What is Red?
The amount of access controlled card readers there are between all authority buildings.
What is 87?
The year SCWA was founded.
What is 1951?
SCWA offers account credit for purchase of qualifying water-saving devices through this program.
What is water wise?
The amount of GAC systems SCWA has built for the removal of organic contaminants.
What is 145?
Connecting a new water line to an existing water line while water is flowing.
What is a wet tap?
To ensure cleaning is done properly THIS is done everyday.
What is Quality Assurance Checklist?
The Long Island Commission for Aquifer protection (LICAP) held its first meeting in THIS year:
What is 2014?
The percentage of the approximate amount of Suffolk County’s population that the water authority is serving.
What is 85%?
The amount of chemicals the laboratory tests.
What is 400 chemicals? (251 more than required by regulators)
The color of the gas mark outs in the road.
What is Yellow?
The tenants at the Coram Location.
What is the USGS (United States Geological Services), USCG (United States Coast Guard), and PSEG (Public Service Electric and Gas Company?
The decade SCWA took an active role in the enactment towards the Landmark Pine Barrens Preservation Act.
What is the 90s?
The renewable resource used by the water authority to filter water (Hint: This resource grows on trees.)
What is a coconut?
The 3 emerging contaminants that now need new treatment systems.
What is 1,4 Dioxane, PFOS and PFOA?
The amount of valve key rotations that are required to close a 6” water main valve.
What is 18?
The Telecontrol system in SCWA vehicles collect THIS information:
What is speeding, hard breaks, seatbelt, and location?
The year SCWA purchased 10 acres of land in Oakdale for a centrally located administrative and operating headquarters.
What is 1956?
The amount of water SCWA pumps out of the aquifers per year.
What is 70 billion gallons?