Environmental Engineering Midterm 1 – Study Guide, Review & Practice
Questions
Environmental Engineering - correct answer ✔✔Mitigate/minimize/alleviate the impacts of
human actions on the environment.
Environmental Engineering entails the following goals: - correct answer ✔✔1. Protect human
health by:
a. Ensuring an ample supply of potable water
b. Managing pollution in air, soil and water
c. Managing waste in a sustainable manner
2. Ensure minimal impact of industry and development on:
a. The environment
b. Society
c. Human health (of course)
origin of enveng - correct answer ✔✔why disease broke out, coined the term "sanitary
awakening" and relied on the work of Dr. John Snow.
1854 London cholera outbreak - correct answer ✔✔- snow figured out disease was transmitted
through contaminated water
Early efforts of Environmental Engineers were thus devoted to (due to london cholera outbreak:
- correct answer ✔✔1. Management of human/ animal waste.. led to waste water treatment
and collection
2. purification of drinking water... drinking water treatment
The Donora Episode - correct answer ✔✔approx. 14,000 residents
, On the Monongahela R. Isolated by cliffs & bluffs in river bend
Zinc plant, steel and wire making
- residents viewed these unchecked emissions as a sign of success
-Not considered unusual as smog was nearly constant in the area, so life went on as usual with a
Halloween parade, high school football, etc.
- inversion lasted 6 days (untill oct 31)
- half of the residents became illl
-- 21 people died
--many pets died
-smog was so dense. doctors got lost traveling house to house
- firefighters were issued oxygen tanks to help residents
Spurred Federal interest in controlling air pollution:
the clean air act (1955)
Love Canal - correct answer ✔✔Suburb of Niagara Falls
Project started by William T. Love in 1890s
Build canal between Lake Erie and Lake OntarioFailed due to lack of $$$$ and poor timing
Hooker chemical utilized the partially excavated canal to store industrial waste from 1942 - 1952
(pesticides, chlorobenzenes, etc...)
Backfilled with soil and sold to the City of Niagara Falls.
Disclosed it was used to store industrial waste.
- area saw growth with the building of houses and an elementary school
- residents complained of
--noxious fumes
-- magic pebbles
--colored fluids
Questions
Environmental Engineering - correct answer ✔✔Mitigate/minimize/alleviate the impacts of
human actions on the environment.
Environmental Engineering entails the following goals: - correct answer ✔✔1. Protect human
health by:
a. Ensuring an ample supply of potable water
b. Managing pollution in air, soil and water
c. Managing waste in a sustainable manner
2. Ensure minimal impact of industry and development on:
a. The environment
b. Society
c. Human health (of course)
origin of enveng - correct answer ✔✔why disease broke out, coined the term "sanitary
awakening" and relied on the work of Dr. John Snow.
1854 London cholera outbreak - correct answer ✔✔- snow figured out disease was transmitted
through contaminated water
Early efforts of Environmental Engineers were thus devoted to (due to london cholera outbreak:
- correct answer ✔✔1. Management of human/ animal waste.. led to waste water treatment
and collection
2. purification of drinking water... drinking water treatment
The Donora Episode - correct answer ✔✔approx. 14,000 residents
, On the Monongahela R. Isolated by cliffs & bluffs in river bend
Zinc plant, steel and wire making
- residents viewed these unchecked emissions as a sign of success
-Not considered unusual as smog was nearly constant in the area, so life went on as usual with a
Halloween parade, high school football, etc.
- inversion lasted 6 days (untill oct 31)
- half of the residents became illl
-- 21 people died
--many pets died
-smog was so dense. doctors got lost traveling house to house
- firefighters were issued oxygen tanks to help residents
Spurred Federal interest in controlling air pollution:
the clean air act (1955)
Love Canal - correct answer ✔✔Suburb of Niagara Falls
Project started by William T. Love in 1890s
Build canal between Lake Erie and Lake OntarioFailed due to lack of $$$$ and poor timing
Hooker chemical utilized the partially excavated canal to store industrial waste from 1942 - 1952
(pesticides, chlorobenzenes, etc...)
Backfilled with soil and sold to the City of Niagara Falls.
Disclosed it was used to store industrial waste.
- area saw growth with the building of houses and an elementary school
- residents complained of
--noxious fumes
-- magic pebbles
--colored fluids
