TCEQ CLASS D WATER OPERATOR LICENSE
EXAM SCRIPT COMPREHENSIVE STUDY
GUIDE
●● Water must be disinfected, delivered at inadequate pressure, and be
ample in quantity. (true/false)
Answer: false (adequate pressure)
●● Utility employees should guard the water supply and facilities from
contamination, public
tours, and even terrorism. (true/false)
Answer: false (public tours)
●● The state requires bacteriological sample results be kept _____ years.
Answer: 5 years
●● The state requires chemical analysis be kept at least _____ years.
Answer: 10 years
●● EPA requires a water system to keep a copy of each consumer
confidence report at least _____
years.
Answer: 5 years
,●● A public water system provides the public with piped water for
human consumption, serves
at least _____ service connections, and regularly serves at least _____
individuals daily at least _____
days out of the year.
Answer: 15 service connections
25 individuals
60 days out of the year
●● The water utility field affects everyone because _____.
Answer: water is essential to life and health
●● The water utility employee should remember customers are entitled
to _____ and _____.
Answer: courteous treatment and answers to questions about water
●● In Texas, water operator licensing is administered by the _____.
Answer: TCEQ
●● All public water systems are required to employ licensed operators
even if the system only
_____ treated water bought from another source.
,Answer: redistributes treated water
●● Public water systems include cities, municipal utility districts, rural
water supply
corporations, mobile home parks, and _____.
Answer: campgrounds
●● Examples of community water systems include ________.
a. municipalities
b. municipal utility districts
c. rural water supply corporations
d. mobile home parks
e. all the above
Answer: e. all of the above
●● A federal agency impacting the water utility industry is the _____.
Answer: EPA
●● The most important federal law impacting the water utility industry
is the _____.
Answer: Safe Drinking Water Act (PL93-523)
, ●● The four national safety and quality standards for drinking water
covered in the Safe
Drinking Water Act are physical, chemical, ________ and radiological.
Answer: bacteriological
●● The state agency that regulates drinking water in Texas and
administers the federal Safe
Drinking Water Act is the ________.
Answer: TCEQ
●● Water utility system personnel are required to notify the TCEQ of
changes or alterations of
the system, a new facility to be built, and water supply ________.
Answer: health hazards
●● Some regional and local agencies impacting the water utility industry
are municipal utility
districts, rural water supply corporations, drainage districts, ________,
groundwater
conservation districts, and subsidence districts.
Answer: river authorities
●● Public relations (PR) is the relationship between YOU, the water
utility employee, and the _____.
EXAM SCRIPT COMPREHENSIVE STUDY
GUIDE
●● Water must be disinfected, delivered at inadequate pressure, and be
ample in quantity. (true/false)
Answer: false (adequate pressure)
●● Utility employees should guard the water supply and facilities from
contamination, public
tours, and even terrorism. (true/false)
Answer: false (public tours)
●● The state requires bacteriological sample results be kept _____ years.
Answer: 5 years
●● The state requires chemical analysis be kept at least _____ years.
Answer: 10 years
●● EPA requires a water system to keep a copy of each consumer
confidence report at least _____
years.
Answer: 5 years
,●● A public water system provides the public with piped water for
human consumption, serves
at least _____ service connections, and regularly serves at least _____
individuals daily at least _____
days out of the year.
Answer: 15 service connections
25 individuals
60 days out of the year
●● The water utility field affects everyone because _____.
Answer: water is essential to life and health
●● The water utility employee should remember customers are entitled
to _____ and _____.
Answer: courteous treatment and answers to questions about water
●● In Texas, water operator licensing is administered by the _____.
Answer: TCEQ
●● All public water systems are required to employ licensed operators
even if the system only
_____ treated water bought from another source.
,Answer: redistributes treated water
●● Public water systems include cities, municipal utility districts, rural
water supply
corporations, mobile home parks, and _____.
Answer: campgrounds
●● Examples of community water systems include ________.
a. municipalities
b. municipal utility districts
c. rural water supply corporations
d. mobile home parks
e. all the above
Answer: e. all of the above
●● A federal agency impacting the water utility industry is the _____.
Answer: EPA
●● The most important federal law impacting the water utility industry
is the _____.
Answer: Safe Drinking Water Act (PL93-523)
, ●● The four national safety and quality standards for drinking water
covered in the Safe
Drinking Water Act are physical, chemical, ________ and radiological.
Answer: bacteriological
●● The state agency that regulates drinking water in Texas and
administers the federal Safe
Drinking Water Act is the ________.
Answer: TCEQ
●● Water utility system personnel are required to notify the TCEQ of
changes or alterations of
the system, a new facility to be built, and water supply ________.
Answer: health hazards
●● Some regional and local agencies impacting the water utility industry
are municipal utility
districts, rural water supply corporations, drainage districts, ________,
groundwater
conservation districts, and subsidence districts.
Answer: river authorities
●● Public relations (PR) is the relationship between YOU, the water
utility employee, and the _____.
