Intro to Wastewater

Overloading a body of water with wastewater can cause:

• Fish kills and algal blooms.

• Violations of safe drinking water standards.

• Low dissolved oxygen in the water.

• Spread of waterborne diseases, like cholera.

Municipal wasterwater is approximately 99.94% liquid and 0.06% solids.

• True

• False

This test measures how much oxygen is needed by bacteria to stabilize the biodegradable organic material present in wasterwater.

• COD test

• BOD test

• settleability test

Influential wastewater contains these macronutrients:

• Carbon, iodine, manganese, nitrogen

• Phosphorus, magnesium, iron, lithium

• Calcium, magnesium, aluminum, phosphorus

• Nitrogen. Phosphorus, iron, and maganese

The Clean Water Act’s guiding principles are:

• Permit required to discharge any pollutant.

• Permit limits the type and concentrations of pollutants allowed to be discharged.

• No one has the right to pollute US waters.