Program Overview
Water Quality Criteria
QAQC
Biology
Potpourri
100
This document states that the waters of Tennessee belong to the state and are held in public trust for the use of current and future citizens.
What is the Tennessee Water Quality Control Act?
100
The pH criteria for wadeable streams.
What is 6.0-9.0?
100
The reason for a monitoring QAQC program.
What is to guarantee the generation of precise, accurate, and defensible data?
100
Of the three types of biology samples collected yesterday, these two can demonstrate a biological response to nutrients.
What are the SQSH and the diatom samples?
100
This Memphis area waterbody was chosen for additional monitoring as part of Tennessee's Vision 2.0. priorities which include environmental justice and rural tourism development.
What is McKellar Lake?
200
This section of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act includes the provision to give grant funding to States and Tribes to establish procedures necessary to monitor, compile, and analyze water quality data.
What is Section 106?
200
The dissolved oxygen criteria for Tennessee streams (excluding Ecoregion 74a).
What is 5.0 mg/L?
200
The frequency required for verification of mercury thermometers used for checking temperature probes by comparing with certified NIST or ASTM thermometers.
What is annually?
200
Name the Order and Family of the organism pictured?
What is Order Trichoptera and Family Hydropsychidae?
200
List at least 2 issues the consultant for Browning Farms (CAFO) found in his review of TDEC's monitoring efforts.
What are sampling after rain event, incomplete COC, no temperature recorded when E. coli analyzed, sampling effluent mixed with stormwater, and geomean was not collected for E. coli ?
300
This section of the Water Quality Control Act requires states to identify waters that do not meet water quality standards.
What is Section 303d?
300
To be considered safe for recreation, E.coli levels must be below_____.
What is 410 MPN?
300
The pH can vary by this amount from initial reading to final reading each day and still be valid.
What is +/- 0.2 s.u ?
300
The height in ft above the water's surface that the spherical densiometer should be held when measuring canopy cover.
What is 1 ft above the water surface?
300
Order name and Family name of the organism pictured.
What is Order Odonata (Suborder Zygoptera) and Family Calopterygidae?
400
Name 3 of the designated uses for waters in Tennessee.
What are
Fish and Aquatic life, Recreation, Livestock Watering and Wildlife, Irrigation, Drinking Water Supply, Industrial Water Supply, Navigation, and Trout Streams?
400
The water quality criteria for temperature for fish and aquatic life.
What is 30.5 C?
400
Memphis EFO staff are scheduled to collect 40 SQSH samples for Group 4.
The number of duplicate SQSH samples required.
What is 4?
400
If undercut bank/tree root is chosen as 1 of the 4 habitats sampled for a biorecon, you will need to do ___ jabs.
What is 2?
400
A geomean for E. coli requires the collection of ___ samples over _____ days taken at least 24 hours apart.
What is 5 samples in 30 days?
500
Name the four designated uses that are applicable to all waters in Tennessee
What are 1. Fish and Aquatic life
2. Recreation
3. Livestock Watering and Wildlife
4. Irrigation ?
500
The dissolved oxygen criteria for Ecoregion 74a?
What is 4.0 mg/L min, 5.0 mg/L average?
500
You must collect duplicate _____ at your first and last sample site of the day at a minimum.
What are field parameters?
500
Name four productive habitats that can be sampled for a biorecon.
What are riffle, undercut bank/tree root, leaf pack, woody debris, macrophyte bed, snag, pool rock, and sediment?
500
The most current assessment of waters in Tennessee can be found here.
What is in the ATTAINs database?