Basic Water
Basic WW
Distribution
WW Treatment
Water Treatment
100

TCEQ means?

Texas Commission on Environmental Quality

100

Mininum separation between sewer pipe and water pipe?

What is 9'.

100
Place in the distribution system where you could find what is typically called a curb stop?

What is at the property line and immediately in front of the water meter.

100

BOD

What is biological oxygen demand (BOD). The amount of oxygen required by aerobic biological microorganisms to decompose organic material in a given water at certain temperature over a time period.    

100

Two types of water that can be treated?

What is surface water & groundwater.

200
Federal law that is most important in the water industry.
What is the Safe Drinking Water Act.
200

_____________ is/are used to flow WW to the treatment plant(s) by gravity. 

What is lift stations.

200
Minerals that cause hardness in water.

What are magnesium and calcium.

200

Two types of disinfection methods in WW treatment.

What are chlorine, UV and ozone.

200

The monthly report name for surface water treatment to TCEQ.

What is a SWMOR.

300

A gallon of water weighs.

What is 8.34 pounds.

300

WW odors occur when WW becomes?

What is anaerobic.

300
Minimum allowable pressure in a distribution system.

What is 20psi

300

Annual report if you have more than 10,000 gallons of hazardous materials on site.

What is Tier II.

300

HCl2 or HOCL2 what is more effective?

What is HOCL2.
400

MGD(s) if a groundwater well is producing 820 gallons per minutes?

What is 1.18 MGDs.

400

Two diseases caused by pathogenic organisms that may be present in raw wastewater? 

What are: Hepatitis, typhoid, paratyphoid, dysentery, and cholera 

400

1 cubic foot of water equals:

a. 8.34 gallons
b. 3.14 gallons
c. 7.48 gallons
d. 2.31 gallons


What is 7.48 gallons

400

Amount of detention time in sedimentation basins to allow floc to settle.

What is 6 hours.

400

Gallons per minute in 21 MGD.

What is 14,583 gallons.

500

Source of groundwater.

What is aquifer.

500

Sanitary control easement must cover land within _______ feet of public water well.

What is 150'. 

500

Location of a corporation stop in the distribution system.

What is at the provider's main line.

500

Preliminary treatment in WW treatment.  

What is Industrial Pretreatment.

500

Bouncing rock or pinging sound coming from a pump typically is a sign of_________?

What is cavitation.