CESSWI Exam Part 1 EXAM 2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED VERIFIED ANSWERS | ALREADY GRADED A+

CESSWI Exam Part 1 EXAM 2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED VERIFIED ANSWERS | ALREADY GRADED A+ 1. CESSWI is qualified to preform what inspections? - ANSWER Construction, post construction, industrial, MS4 2. Clean Water Act year of creation and intent of law - ANSWER 1972, enacted to restore and maintain the physical, bio, chem integrity of the waters of the US 3. CWA Section 402 - ANSWER Est. NPDES System, originally focused on industrial process waste water and POTW 4. CWA Section 404 - ANSWER regulated impacts to waters of the US, typically associated with a 401 certification 5. CWA Section 401 - 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 6. CWA Section 303 - ANSWER Establishes Water quality standards 7. Storm water discharge definition - ANSWER storm water runoff, snow melt runoff, and surface runoff/drainage 8. To be subject to NPDES rules, stormwater must: - ANSWER be in a discernible conveyance 9. Definitions of waters of the US - ANSWER All waters used in interstate or foreign commerce, including those subject to tidal flows  All interstate waters, including interstate wetlands  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  All impoundments of water defined by waters of the US by the above  Tributaries of the waters defined above  The territorial sea  Wetlands adjacent to any of the waters defined above 10. Beneficial Uses definition - ANSWER Uses necessary for the survival of and well-being of people, plants, and wildlife 11. Water quality standards definition - 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 12. Section 303d - ANSWER est a process for states, territories, and tribes to i.d. impaired waters, also referred to as water quality limited 13. TMDL - ANSWER id's the amount of a specific pollutnant that may be dicharged to a water body, states are responsible for implementing 14. Waste load allocations - ANSWER allocations of pollutant loadings to point sources 15. TMDL Implementation - ANSWER Define waste load allocation, develop implementation plan to connect allocations and permits, translate allocations to permit conditions. 16. Origin of NPDES stormwater regs - ANSWER NURP studies showed stormwater had many of the same qualities of commercial, industrial areas 17. NPDES Phase I and II regs implemented via - ANSWER General permits for a group of similar dischagers such as consutruction industry, industrial, utilities 18. Individual permits for a single entity, facility or project 19. Phase I NPDES Permits ID'd as: - ANSWER Industrial activity Construction activity <5 acres Cities over 100k population 20. Phase II NPDES Permits ID'd as: - ANSWER Construction activity 1 - 5 acres Cities 10k - 100k population commercial, retail, light industrial, institutional updated industrial and const. general permits 21. Phase II implemented MS4 requirements - ANSWER SWMP with 6 MCMs Develop measurable program goals Evaluate effectivness 22. 6MCMs - ANSWER Public education/outreach Public participation and involvement IDDE Const. site runoff control post-construction runoff control pollution prevention/good housekeeping 23. Components of Permit Compliance - ANSWER NOI COI SWPPP NOT Record keeping and documentation 24. What A SWPPP Should include - ANSWER Narrative description potential pollutants (batteries, concrete, etc.) Size of site pre and post const runoff coefficients non stormwater managment measures permanent post const bmps waste mgmt ad disposal measres montitoring and sampling analysis plan provisions for maintenance, inspection, and repair of BMPs