DESIGNATED REPRESENTATIVE OSSF VERIFIED
EXAM QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
◉ OSSF permit application should include.
Answer: - Site Evaluation
- Legal description of property
- Affidavits as required
- Maintenance contract
- Design Calculations
- Equipment/Material Specifications
- Scale drawing showing all features effecting operation of disposal
system
◉ - Criminal Penalties
- Injunction or civil suit
- Administrative Penalties.
Answer: Legal Penalties for violating OSSF rules
◉ Criminal Penalties.
Answer: Initiated in court through district or county attorney by
either authorized agent or TCEQ. Often misdemeanors.
,◉ Injunction or Civil Suit.
Answer: Can only be initiated by TCEQ through Attorney General.
Local government may request TCEQ to initiate enforcement or
pursue civil action. TCEQ may choose not to.
◉ Administrative Penalites.
Answer: May be assessed by TCEQ against a person in violation of
the rules, regulations, or OSSF permit. May request enforcement
from Attorney General.
◉ Installers can plan.
Answer: Standard, conventional, gravel-filled standard drainfields,
lined and unlined ET beds, gravelless pipe, leaching chambers
◉ Requires a Professional Designer.
Answer: Surface application, low-pressure dosing, mounds, non
standard systems. All systems in Edwards Aquifer recharge zone. Al
multi-unit developments. All systems in floodways. All systems with
variance. Small lots with less than 1/2 acre on public water or 1 acre
without public water. Multiple systems on large tract
◉ Risers on any kind of tank in an OSSF must:.
Answer: - have inside diameter equal to or larger than clean-out
- be permanently fastened with watertight connection to tank lid
,- have removable watertight caps protected against unauthorized
access
◉ 6" to 12".
Answer: Clean-out ports must have risers that extend to the surface
except for septic tanks, where clean-out port or riser can be from
__________ below surface.
◉ A padlock
A cover that requires tools for removal
A cover with a minimum net weight of 65lbs set into recess of the
tank lid.
Answer: Acceptable protective measures to prevent unauthorized
access
◉ greater than 5 feet.
Answer: depth at which an excavation must be sloped, shored, or
otherwise supported
◉ Angle of repose.
Answer: The angle closest to the perpendicular at which the soil will
remain at rest
◉ Waterborne diseases caused by pathogens.
, Answer: Typhoid, Paratyphoid, Cryptosporosis, Bacillary Dysentery,
Cholera, Amoebic Dysentery, Giardiasis, Hepatitis, Polio, Meningitis
◉ Inorganics that appear to affect health.
Answer: Arsenic, cadmium, cyanide, fluoride, lead, mercury, nitrate,
and selenium
◉ Methemoglobinemia (Blue Baby Syndrome).
Answer: A serious, sometimes fatal poisoning in infants after
ingesting water with nitrate. Nitrate impairs the oxygen-carrying
capacity of blood.
◉ Three primary routes of contamination:.
Answer: 1) Neighborhood Pollution
2) Groundwater Contamination
3) Surface Water Pollution
◉ Illegal systems in Texas that may not be installed or used:.
Answer: Cesspools, seepage pits, bore holes, and injection wells
◉ Physical characteristics of fresh domestic wastewater:.
Answer: Light dishwater color, slight fecal odor, visible floating and
suspended solids . DO is present
EXAM QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
◉ OSSF permit application should include.
Answer: - Site Evaluation
- Legal description of property
- Affidavits as required
- Maintenance contract
- Design Calculations
- Equipment/Material Specifications
- Scale drawing showing all features effecting operation of disposal
system
◉ - Criminal Penalties
- Injunction or civil suit
- Administrative Penalties.
Answer: Legal Penalties for violating OSSF rules
◉ Criminal Penalties.
Answer: Initiated in court through district or county attorney by
either authorized agent or TCEQ. Often misdemeanors.
,◉ Injunction or Civil Suit.
Answer: Can only be initiated by TCEQ through Attorney General.
Local government may request TCEQ to initiate enforcement or
pursue civil action. TCEQ may choose not to.
◉ Administrative Penalites.
Answer: May be assessed by TCEQ against a person in violation of
the rules, regulations, or OSSF permit. May request enforcement
from Attorney General.
◉ Installers can plan.
Answer: Standard, conventional, gravel-filled standard drainfields,
lined and unlined ET beds, gravelless pipe, leaching chambers
◉ Requires a Professional Designer.
Answer: Surface application, low-pressure dosing, mounds, non
standard systems. All systems in Edwards Aquifer recharge zone. Al
multi-unit developments. All systems in floodways. All systems with
variance. Small lots with less than 1/2 acre on public water or 1 acre
without public water. Multiple systems on large tract
◉ Risers on any kind of tank in an OSSF must:.
Answer: - have inside diameter equal to or larger than clean-out
- be permanently fastened with watertight connection to tank lid
,- have removable watertight caps protected against unauthorized
access
◉ 6" to 12".
Answer: Clean-out ports must have risers that extend to the surface
except for septic tanks, where clean-out port or riser can be from
__________ below surface.
◉ A padlock
A cover that requires tools for removal
A cover with a minimum net weight of 65lbs set into recess of the
tank lid.
Answer: Acceptable protective measures to prevent unauthorized
access
◉ greater than 5 feet.
Answer: depth at which an excavation must be sloped, shored, or
otherwise supported
◉ Angle of repose.
Answer: The angle closest to the perpendicular at which the soil will
remain at rest
◉ Waterborne diseases caused by pathogens.
, Answer: Typhoid, Paratyphoid, Cryptosporosis, Bacillary Dysentery,
Cholera, Amoebic Dysentery, Giardiasis, Hepatitis, Polio, Meningitis
◉ Inorganics that appear to affect health.
Answer: Arsenic, cadmium, cyanide, fluoride, lead, mercury, nitrate,
and selenium
◉ Methemoglobinemia (Blue Baby Syndrome).
Answer: A serious, sometimes fatal poisoning in infants after
ingesting water with nitrate. Nitrate impairs the oxygen-carrying
capacity of blood.
◉ Three primary routes of contamination:.
Answer: 1) Neighborhood Pollution
2) Groundwater Contamination
3) Surface Water Pollution
◉ Illegal systems in Texas that may not be installed or used:.
Answer: Cesspools, seepage pits, bore holes, and injection wells
◉ Physical characteristics of fresh domestic wastewater:.
Answer: Light dishwater color, slight fecal odor, visible floating and
suspended solids . DO is present
