WASTE WATER COMPREHENSIVE EXAM
SCRIPT VERIFIED QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS
●● Waste water types (5 types)*
Answer: 1. Domestic Waste
2. Industrial Waste
3. Ground Water
4. Storm Drain Runoff
5. Municipal Waste
●● Domestic Waste
Answer: It refers to solid waste from homes, offices and stores (toilets,
shower, sinks)
The highest source of water pollution is ______.
●● Industrial Waste
Answer: Waste that comes from the production of consumer goods,
mining, agriculture, hospitals, meat processing, and petroleum extraction
and refining
,-must treat their waste prior to dumping into common swear system
●● Ground Water
Answer: underground water that is held in the soil and in pervious rocks
can infiltrate sewage system in pipe cracks
●● Storm Drain Runoff
Answer: from rainstorm water
protected by NPDES
●● Municipal Waste
Answer: waste consisting of everyday items that are discarded by the
public-residential, commercial, institutional, industrial sources that is
going to be treated at municipal waste plant
in large cities common to discharge sewage to directly to oceans
●● Leachate
Answer: the liquid that percolates to the bottom of a landfill.
can be from rainfall sipping through landfill or intentionally dumped
, ●● NPDES
Answer: National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
Prohibits draining of any kind of waste water onto public streets
●● What are some physical characteristics of waste water?
Answer: fresh water is 99.8% water and 0.2% solid
also called Grey Water
if sewage water enters lake untreated, nitrification process develops
(algae bloom)
●● Decomposition (water)
Answer: the anaerobic state of bacterial degradation, no dissolved
oxygens in the water
●● what is the completion of the decomposition state?
Answer: Clean water
●● Digestion of Sludge?
SCRIPT VERIFIED QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS
●● Waste water types (5 types)*
Answer: 1. Domestic Waste
2. Industrial Waste
3. Ground Water
4. Storm Drain Runoff
5. Municipal Waste
●● Domestic Waste
Answer: It refers to solid waste from homes, offices and stores (toilets,
shower, sinks)
The highest source of water pollution is ______.
●● Industrial Waste
Answer: Waste that comes from the production of consumer goods,
mining, agriculture, hospitals, meat processing, and petroleum extraction
and refining
,-must treat their waste prior to dumping into common swear system
●● Ground Water
Answer: underground water that is held in the soil and in pervious rocks
can infiltrate sewage system in pipe cracks
●● Storm Drain Runoff
Answer: from rainstorm water
protected by NPDES
●● Municipal Waste
Answer: waste consisting of everyday items that are discarded by the
public-residential, commercial, institutional, industrial sources that is
going to be treated at municipal waste plant
in large cities common to discharge sewage to directly to oceans
●● Leachate
Answer: the liquid that percolates to the bottom of a landfill.
can be from rainfall sipping through landfill or intentionally dumped
, ●● NPDES
Answer: National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
Prohibits draining of any kind of waste water onto public streets
●● What are some physical characteristics of waste water?
Answer: fresh water is 99.8% water and 0.2% solid
also called Grey Water
if sewage water enters lake untreated, nitrification process develops
(algae bloom)
●● Decomposition (water)
Answer: the anaerobic state of bacterial degradation, no dissolved
oxygens in the water
●● what is the completion of the decomposition state?
Answer: Clean water
●● Digestion of Sludge?
