CPESC Exam Questions and 100% Correct Answers
What problems can accelerated erosion cause? - ✔✔Unrestricted development
removal of surface cover
increased imperviousness
poor stewardship
Problems associated with construction related erosion - ✔✔problems for down slope
property owners
nuisance problems on streets
clog streams and storm drains
increased turbidity downstream
cover sensitive habitat with sediment
Identify instream damages of sediment - ✔✔destruction of spawning areas, food sources,
habitat
direct toxicity to wildlife
lake degradation
filling of navigation channels
impacts to commercial fisheries
reduction of water storage capacities
Suspended material - ✔✔sediment can affect light penetration, channel stability, fisheries
and habitat
Name Off stream damages - ✔✔Increased flood hazards
increased water treatment costs
,decreased capacity in conveyance facilities
higher infrastructure maintenance costs
What has increased the amount of impervious surface in our watersheds? - ✔✔Urbanization
and development
priority pollutants include - ✔✔nutrients
pathogens
heavy metals
toxics
sediment
salts
detergents
hydro carbons
Clean Water Act (CWA) - ✔✔Federal Water Pollution Control Act enacted to restore and
maintain the chemical, physical and biological integrity of the waters of the US
administered by USEPA
Section 401 - ✔✔water quality certification
requires applicant, including any construction or operation of a facility, to obtain certification to
discharge ANY pollutant.
administered by the State
Section 402 - ✔✔NPDES Regs
NPDES - ✔✔National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
,MS4 - ✔✔Municipal Separate Storm Sewers Systems
NURP - ✔✔Nationwide Urban Runoff Program
1987-1983
led to EPA regulating stormwater
Phase I
(1987 - 1992) - ✔✔already covered by NPDES permit
facilities that engage in industrial activity
Large municipal storm systems (>250,000)
Medium municipal storms systems (100 - 250 K)
facilities that EPA said were significant contributors
Storm Water Implementation Rule - ✔✔enacted April 1992, identified minimum
requirements for NPDES stormwater permits
Section 404 - ✔✔regulates dredge / fill permitting into waters of the US administered by
USACE
CZARA - ✔✔Coastal Zone Act Reauthorization Amendments (CZARA) of 1990 requires coastal
zone states to develop Coastal Nonpoint Pollution Control Programs
section 6217 nonpoint source in coastal areas
stormwater - ✔✔stormwater runoff, snow melt runoff, and surface runoff and drainage
, NPDES stormwater regulation say - ✔✔stormwater must be in any discernable, confined,
and discrete conveyance, including but not limited to any pipe, ditch, channel, tunnel, well,
discrete fissure, container, rolling stock, concentrated feeding operation....
waters of the US - ✔✔waters used for interstate or foreign commerce
all interstate waters including wetlands
all other waters, the use ofr degeration of which would affect interstate or foreign commerce
impoundments of waters
territorial sea
wetlands adjacent to waters above
Phase II - ✔✔December 1999, require construction sites disturbing equal to or greater than 1
acre and less than 5 to control pollutants in stormwater runoff.
SWMP - ✔✔Stormwater Management Plan
6 minimum measures of SWMP - ✔✔Public Education and Outreach
Public Participation / Involvement
Illicit Discharge Detection and Elimination
Construction Site Runoff Control
Post Construction Runoff Control
Pollution Prevention / Good Housekeeping
(PPICPP)
Purpose of Clean Water Act - ✔✔protect the beneficial uses of surface waters
What problems can accelerated erosion cause? - ✔✔Unrestricted development
removal of surface cover
increased imperviousness
poor stewardship
Problems associated with construction related erosion - ✔✔problems for down slope
property owners
nuisance problems on streets
clog streams and storm drains
increased turbidity downstream
cover sensitive habitat with sediment
Identify instream damages of sediment - ✔✔destruction of spawning areas, food sources,
habitat
direct toxicity to wildlife
lake degradation
filling of navigation channels
impacts to commercial fisheries
reduction of water storage capacities
Suspended material - ✔✔sediment can affect light penetration, channel stability, fisheries
and habitat
Name Off stream damages - ✔✔Increased flood hazards
increased water treatment costs
,decreased capacity in conveyance facilities
higher infrastructure maintenance costs
What has increased the amount of impervious surface in our watersheds? - ✔✔Urbanization
and development
priority pollutants include - ✔✔nutrients
pathogens
heavy metals
toxics
sediment
salts
detergents
hydro carbons
Clean Water Act (CWA) - ✔✔Federal Water Pollution Control Act enacted to restore and
maintain the chemical, physical and biological integrity of the waters of the US
administered by USEPA
Section 401 - ✔✔water quality certification
requires applicant, including any construction or operation of a facility, to obtain certification to
discharge ANY pollutant.
administered by the State
Section 402 - ✔✔NPDES Regs
NPDES - ✔✔National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
,MS4 - ✔✔Municipal Separate Storm Sewers Systems
NURP - ✔✔Nationwide Urban Runoff Program
1987-1983
led to EPA regulating stormwater
Phase I
(1987 - 1992) - ✔✔already covered by NPDES permit
facilities that engage in industrial activity
Large municipal storm systems (>250,000)
Medium municipal storms systems (100 - 250 K)
facilities that EPA said were significant contributors
Storm Water Implementation Rule - ✔✔enacted April 1992, identified minimum
requirements for NPDES stormwater permits
Section 404 - ✔✔regulates dredge / fill permitting into waters of the US administered by
USACE
CZARA - ✔✔Coastal Zone Act Reauthorization Amendments (CZARA) of 1990 requires coastal
zone states to develop Coastal Nonpoint Pollution Control Programs
section 6217 nonpoint source in coastal areas
stormwater - ✔✔stormwater runoff, snow melt runoff, and surface runoff and drainage
, NPDES stormwater regulation say - ✔✔stormwater must be in any discernable, confined,
and discrete conveyance, including but not limited to any pipe, ditch, channel, tunnel, well,
discrete fissure, container, rolling stock, concentrated feeding operation....
waters of the US - ✔✔waters used for interstate or foreign commerce
all interstate waters including wetlands
all other waters, the use ofr degeration of which would affect interstate or foreign commerce
impoundments of waters
territorial sea
wetlands adjacent to waters above
Phase II - ✔✔December 1999, require construction sites disturbing equal to or greater than 1
acre and less than 5 to control pollutants in stormwater runoff.
SWMP - ✔✔Stormwater Management Plan
6 minimum measures of SWMP - ✔✔Public Education and Outreach
Public Participation / Involvement
Illicit Discharge Detection and Elimination
Construction Site Runoff Control
Post Construction Runoff Control
Pollution Prevention / Good Housekeeping
(PPICPP)
Purpose of Clean Water Act - ✔✔protect the beneficial uses of surface waters
