Wastewater Permits and Regulations Questions

Statutes, permits and design criteria open Texas’s wastewater Need-to-Know Criteria; WPI places them under Security, Safety and Administrative Procedures.

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Under standard NPDES permit conditions, what is a bypass?

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What our permits and rules questions cover

  • The Clean Water Act, NPDES and Texas TPDES
  • Secondary treatment standards and permit averages
  • DMRs, records, bypass, upsets and overflow reporting
  • Pretreatment: pass-through and interference
  • California exam rules and Texas 30 TAC Chapter 217
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This list is our own summary, written for practice. The exam owners publish their outlines: California’s Expected Range of Knowledge, TCEQ’s Need-to-Know Criteria and WPI’s Need-to-Know Criteria.

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Ideas the questions test most

  1. Secondary standard: 30 mg/L BOD5 and TSS (30-day), 85% removal, pH 6–9.
  2. Keep NPDES monitoring records at least three years.
  3. Report overflows; do not wash them into storm drains.
  4. California wastewater exams need 70% of points and 50% of math points.

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Common questions

What is a DMR?

A Discharge Monitoring Report: the periodic report of effluent sampling results that the discharge permit requires.

What is a bypass?

An intentional diversion of waste streams around any part of the treatment facility; bypasses are prohibited except under narrow conditions and must be reported.

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Outlines used for these questions: Expected Range of Knowledge, Drinking Water Treatment Exam (rev. 4/2020, PDF) · Expected Range of Knowledge, Drinking Water Distribution Exam (rev. 4/2020, PDF) · TCEQ: Need-to-Know Criteria for public water system operators · TCEQ: What applicants for wastewater licenses need to know · WPI: 2025 Need-to-Know Criteria.

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