CESSWI PART IQUESTIONS WITH 100 % CORRECT ANSWERS | VERIFIED

CESSWI is qualified to preform what inspections? - Answer-Construction, post construction, industrial, MS4 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 CWA Section 402 - Answer-Est. NPDES System, originally focused on industrial process waste water and POTW CWA Section 404 - Answer-regulated impacts to waters of the US, typically associated with a 401 certification 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 CWA Section 303 - Answer-Establishes Water quality standards Stormwater discharge definition - Answer-stormwater runoff, snow melt runoff, and surface runoff/drainage To be subject to NPDES rules, stormwater must: - Answer-be in a discernible conveyance Definitions of waters of the US - Answer-All waters used in interstate or foreign commerce, including those subject to tidal flows o All interstate waters, including interstate wetlands o 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 purposeso All impoundments of water defined by waters of the US by the above o Tributaries of the waters defined above o The territorial sea o Wetlands adjacent to any of the waters defined above Beneficial Uses definition - Answer-Uses necessary for the survival of and well-being of people, plants, and wildlife 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 Section 303d - Answer-est a process for states, territories, and tribes to i.d. impaired waters, also referred to as water quality limited TMDL - Answer-id's the amount of a specific pollutnant that may be dicharged to a water body, states are responsible for implementing Waste load allocations - Answer-allocations of pollutant loadings to point sources TMDL Implementation - Answer-Define waste load allocation, develop implementation plan to connect allocations and permits, translate allocations to permit conditions. Origin of NPDES stormwater regs - Answer-NURP studies showed stormwater had many of the same qualities of commercial, industrial areas NPDES Phase I and II regs implemented via - Answer-General permits for a group of similar dischagers such as consutruction industry, industrial, utilities Individual permits for a single entity, facility or project Phase I NPDES Permits ID'd as: - Answer-Industrial activity Construction activity 5 acres Cities over 100k populationPhase 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