CESSWI PART I Newest Updated Exam with precise ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
detailed solutions ||\\//||
CESSWI is qualified to preform what inspections? - correct answer✔✔Construction, post
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
construction, industrial, MS4 ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Clean Water Act year of creation and intent of law - correct answer✔✔1972, enacted to
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
restore and maintain the physical, bio, chem integrity of the waters of the US
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
CWA Section 402 - correct answer✔✔Est. NPDES System, originally focused on industrial
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
process waste water and POTW ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
CWA Section 404 - correct answer✔✔regulated impacts to waters of the US, typically
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
associated with a 401 certification ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
CWA Section 401 - correct answer✔✔Regulates water quality impacts and state cert
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
systems, required permit issued by a federal agency for any activity that may discharge a
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
pollutant, Applies heavily in industrial sites ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
CWA Section 303 - correct answer✔✔Establishes Water quality standards
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Stormwater discharge definition - correct answer✔✔stormwater runoff, snow melt runoff, ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
and surface runoff/drainage
||\\//|| ||\\//||
To be subject to NPDES rules, stormwater must: - correct answer✔✔be in a discernible
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
conveyance
,Definitions of waters of the US - correct answer✔✔All waters used in interstate or foreign ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
commerce, including those subject to tidal flows ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
o All interstate waters, including interstate wetlands
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
o All INTRAstate lakes, rivers, streams (intermittent also), mudflats, sand flats, wetlands,
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
sloughs, prairie potholes, wet meadows, playa lake, or natural ponds that the destruction of
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
which would affect interstate/foreign commerce including those which:
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
||\\//|| Could be used for recreational or other purposes ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
||\\//|| From which shellfish or fish could be retrieved and sold
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
||\\//|| Could be used for industrial purposes ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
o All impoundments of water defined by waters of the US by the above
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
o Tributaries of the waters defined above
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
o The territorial sea
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
o Wetlands adjacent to any of the waters defined above
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Beneficial Uses definition - correct answer✔✔Uses necessary for the survival of and well- ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
being of people, plants, and wildlife ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Water quality standards definition - correct answer✔✔state or tribal requirements that
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
define the water quality goals of a lake stream or other wateerbody by designation the
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
benefical uses and setting criteria to protect those uses ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Section 303d - correct answer✔✔est a process for states, territories, and tribes to i.d.
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
impaired waters, also referred to as water quality limited ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
TMDL - correct answer✔✔id's the amount of a specific pollutnant that may be dicharged to
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
a water body, states are responsible for implementing
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Waste load allocations - correct answer✔✔allocations of pollutant loadings to point sources
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
, TMDL Implementation - correct answer✔✔Define waste load allocation, develop
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
implementation plan to connect allocations and permits, translate allocations to permit ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
conditions.
Origin of NPDES stormwater regs - correct answer✔✔NURP studies showed stormwater
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
had many of the same qualities of commercial, industrial areas
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
NPDES Phase I and II regs implemented via - correct answer✔✔General permits for a
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
group of similar dischagers such as consutruction industry, industrial, utilities
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Individual permits for a single entity, facility or project ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Phase I NPDES Permits ID'd as: - correct answer✔✔Industrial activity
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Construction activity <5 acres ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Cities over 100k population
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Phase II NPDES Permits ID'd as: - correct answer✔✔Construction activity 1 - 5 acres
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Cities 10k - 100k population
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
commercial, retail, light industrial, institutional ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
updated industrial and const. general permits ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Phase II impletmented MS4 requirements - correct answer✔✔SWMP with 6 MCMs
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Develop measurable program goals ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Evaluate effectivness ||\\//||
6MCMs - correct answer✔✔Public education/outreach ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Public participation and involvement
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
detailed solutions ||\\//||
CESSWI is qualified to preform what inspections? - correct answer✔✔Construction, post
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
construction, industrial, MS4 ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Clean Water Act year of creation and intent of law - correct answer✔✔1972, enacted to
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
restore and maintain the physical, bio, chem integrity of the waters of the US
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
CWA Section 402 - correct answer✔✔Est. NPDES System, originally focused on industrial
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
process waste water and POTW ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
CWA Section 404 - correct answer✔✔regulated impacts to waters of the US, typically
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
associated with a 401 certification ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
CWA Section 401 - correct answer✔✔Regulates water quality impacts and state cert
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
systems, required permit issued by a federal agency for any activity that may discharge a
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
pollutant, Applies heavily in industrial sites ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
CWA Section 303 - correct answer✔✔Establishes Water quality standards
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Stormwater discharge definition - correct answer✔✔stormwater runoff, snow melt runoff, ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
and surface runoff/drainage
||\\//|| ||\\//||
To be subject to NPDES rules, stormwater must: - correct answer✔✔be in a discernible
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
conveyance
,Definitions of waters of the US - correct answer✔✔All waters used in interstate or foreign ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
commerce, including those subject to tidal flows ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
o All interstate waters, including interstate wetlands
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
o All INTRAstate lakes, rivers, streams (intermittent also), mudflats, sand flats, wetlands,
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
sloughs, prairie potholes, wet meadows, playa lake, or natural ponds that the destruction of
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
which would affect interstate/foreign commerce including those which:
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
||\\//|| Could be used for recreational or other purposes ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
||\\//|| From which shellfish or fish could be retrieved and sold
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
||\\//|| Could be used for industrial purposes ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
o All impoundments of water defined by waters of the US by the above
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
o Tributaries of the waters defined above
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
o The territorial sea
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
o Wetlands adjacent to any of the waters defined above
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Beneficial Uses definition - correct answer✔✔Uses necessary for the survival of and well- ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
being of people, plants, and wildlife ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Water quality standards definition - correct answer✔✔state or tribal requirements that
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
define the water quality goals of a lake stream or other wateerbody by designation the
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
benefical uses and setting criteria to protect those uses ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Section 303d - correct answer✔✔est a process for states, territories, and tribes to i.d.
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
impaired waters, also referred to as water quality limited ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
TMDL - correct answer✔✔id's the amount of a specific pollutnant that may be dicharged to
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
a water body, states are responsible for implementing
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Waste load allocations - correct answer✔✔allocations of pollutant loadings to point sources
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
, TMDL Implementation - correct answer✔✔Define waste load allocation, develop
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
implementation plan to connect allocations and permits, translate allocations to permit ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
conditions.
Origin of NPDES stormwater regs - correct answer✔✔NURP studies showed stormwater
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
had many of the same qualities of commercial, industrial areas
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
NPDES Phase I and II regs implemented via - correct answer✔✔General permits for a
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
group of similar dischagers such as consutruction industry, industrial, utilities
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Individual permits for a single entity, facility or project ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Phase I NPDES Permits ID'd as: - correct answer✔✔Industrial activity
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Construction activity <5 acres ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Cities over 100k population
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Phase II NPDES Permits ID'd as: - correct answer✔✔Construction activity 1 - 5 acres
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Cities 10k - 100k population
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
commercial, retail, light industrial, institutional ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
updated industrial and const. general permits ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Phase II impletmented MS4 requirements - correct answer✔✔SWMP with 6 MCMs
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Develop measurable program goals ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Evaluate effectivness ||\\//||
6MCMs - correct answer✔✔Public education/outreach ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
Public participation and involvement
||\\//|| ||\\//|| ||\\//||
