Wastewater Collections Study Guide – Terms, Practices, and
Wastewater
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Collections
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What is a unusually strong wastewater discharged from a waste source?
A sock load
The four categories of wastewater characteristics are?
physical, chemical, bacteriological,
and radiological.
The amount of wastewater collected depends on?
economic status, water rates, climate,
infiltration/inflow, and industry.
Physical characteristics are detected by the senses such as?
smell and sight
When anaerobic decomposition begins producing acid and
odorous gases.?
Begins when dissolved oxygen is gone
One mg/L or one ppm is?
one pound of material in a million pounds of water.
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Organics are produced by
plants, animals, or humans
It is not organic and examples are sand, metal, and rock.
"Inorganic"
What is toxic, corrosive, flammable, heavier than air, deadens the sense of
smell, and has a rotten egg odor.
Hydrogen sulfide
What is lighter than air, explosive, colorless, and odorless?
Methane (natural) gas
What Oil and grease in wastewater may cause?
explosion, fires,stoppages and odor
Excessive chlorides interfere with treatment and effect wastewater ____
lab tests
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Wastewater
Exam Prep
Collections
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Practices, and Exam Prep (
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Page 1 of 17 Wastewater Collections Study Guide – Terms, Practices, and Exam Prep ( 2026 Latest Update).pdf
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What is a unusually strong wastewater discharged from a waste source?
A sock load
The four categories of wastewater characteristics are?
physical, chemical, bacteriological,
and radiological.
The amount of wastewater collected depends on?
economic status, water rates, climate,
infiltration/inflow, and industry.
Physical characteristics are detected by the senses such as?
smell and sight
When anaerobic decomposition begins producing acid and
odorous gases.?
Begins when dissolved oxygen is gone
One mg/L or one ppm is?
one pound of material in a million pounds of water.
Page 2 of 17 Page 2 wastewater collections.pdf
, wastewater collections wastewater collections.pdf 2026-03-10
Organics are produced by
plants, animals, or humans
It is not organic and examples are sand, metal, and rock.
"Inorganic"
What is toxic, corrosive, flammable, heavier than air, deadens the sense of
smell, and has a rotten egg odor.
Hydrogen sulfide
What is lighter than air, explosive, colorless, and odorless?
Methane (natural) gas
What Oil and grease in wastewater may cause?
explosion, fires,stoppages and odor
Excessive chlorides interfere with treatment and effect wastewater ____
lab tests
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