MUD Mastery
This state agency creates and regulates Municipal Utility Districts and approves bond issuances.
What is the TCEQ?
Quiddity has served Texas communities for over this many years.
What is 50 years?
This is the maximum number of phases allowed in a TPDES permit.
What is three?
Acceptable free chlorine residual in a potable water distribution system.
What is approximately 0.2–4.0 mg/L (2 ppm often used operationally)?
BOD stands for this measurement
What is Biochemical Oxygen Demand?
A MUD Board consists of this number of elected Directors.
What is five?
A Quiddity District Engineer's job doesn't stop after design. Name three additional responsibilities.
Examples: Board meetings, construction observation, emergency response, budgeting, capital improvements, operations support.
In accordance with the National Electrical Code (NEC), this is the minimum working clearance required in front of an electrical panel.
What is 3 feet?
This form of mechanical cleaning, removes build up on the liner and screen.
What is wire brushing?
The engineering team should always consult with this person when creating a bypass plan.
Who is the facility Operator?
Property owners repay infrastructure through this tax rather than citywide taxes.
What is an ad valorem tax? (or debt service tax)
Name three services Quiddity provides besides traditional civil engineering.
What are surveying, planning, transportation, environmental services, construction management, hydrology & hydraulics, water/wastewater treatment, etc.?
Zone AE represents this Special Flood Hazard Area designation on FEMA Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs).
What is the 1% Annual Chance Floodplain (100-year floodplain)?
Three consecutive passing bacteriological samples are required before this can occur.
What is placing a waterline or storage tank into service?
The biggest long-term issue affecting aging sanitary sewer systems is commonly abbreviated as these two letters.
What is I&I (Inflow and Infiltration)?
Before digging anywhere in Texas, state law requires you call this number.
What is 811?
This Quiddity value emphasizes keeping clients informed throughout every project.
What is Communication?
BOD₅/CBOD, TSS, NH₃-N, and this constituent are the four most common pollutant effluent limits included in TPDES permits for municipal facilities in the greater Houston area.
What is E. coli?
The engineering term for pressure added by a pump in the energy equation.
What is Pump Head?
Activated sludge systems size aeration equipment primarily based on this parameter.
What is BOD loading?
Before a Municipal Utility District can issue unlimited tax bonds for water, wastewater, or drainage facilities, voters within the district must first approve this.
What is a bond authorization election?
Quiddity's Core Values
Quality, Collaboration, Accountability, Respect, and Ethical Behavior (QCARE)
This report contains the flood profiles and hydraulic data used to determine water surface elevations during floodplain analyses.
What is the Flood Insurance Study (FIS)?
This equation, developed in 1906, is commonly used to estimate headloss in pressure pipelines.
What is the Hazen-Williams Equation?
This test must wait 30 days after installation and verifies PVC pipe deformation.
What is the Mandrel Test?