Chapter 1 Review Questions and
Answers
What is the first clarifier that wastewater flows into called? - Answer-Primary clarifier
What recovery and recycling processes are typical at wastewater treatment plants? - Answer-
Recovering nutrients, generating energy, and creating biosolids
Where does effluent flow from? - Answer-Reservoirs, basins, treatment processes, and wastewater
treatment plants
Who are receiving water quality standards and waste discharge requirements designed to protect? -
Answer-Water users downstream from wastewater treatment plants
What kind of reuse stores treated water in surface or groundwater storage before being delivered to a
drinking water treatment plant? - Answer-Indirect potable reuse
What environment do anaerobic bacteria live and reproduce in? - Answer-An environment with no free
or dissolved oxygen
Answers
What is the first clarifier that wastewater flows into called? - Answer-Primary clarifier
What recovery and recycling processes are typical at wastewater treatment plants? - Answer-
Recovering nutrients, generating energy, and creating biosolids
Where does effluent flow from? - Answer-Reservoirs, basins, treatment processes, and wastewater
treatment plants
Who are receiving water quality standards and waste discharge requirements designed to protect? -
Answer-Water users downstream from wastewater treatment plants
What kind of reuse stores treated water in surface or groundwater storage before being delivered to a
drinking water treatment plant? - Answer-Indirect potable reuse
What environment do anaerobic bacteria live and reproduce in? - Answer-An environment with no free
or dissolved oxygen