CESSWI PART I QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS 100%
VERIFIED 2024/2025
CESSWI is qualified to preform what inspections? - Correct Answer Construction, post construction, industrial, MS4 Clean Water Act year of creation and intent of law - Correct Answer 1972, enacted to restore and maintain the physical, bio, chem integrity of the waters of the US CWA Section 402 - Correct Answer Est. NPDES System, originally focused on industrial process waste water and POTW CWA Section 404 - Correct Answer regulated impacts to waters of the US, typically associated with a 401 certification CWA Section 401 - Correct 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 - Correct Answer Establishes Water quality standards Stormwater discharge definition - Correct Answer stormwater runoff, snow melt runoff, and surface runoff/drainage To be subject to NPDES rules, stormwater must: - Correct Answer be in a discernible conveyance Definitions of waters of the US - Correct Answer All waters used in interstate or foreign commerce, including those subject to tidal flows
- All interstate waters, including interstate wetlands
- 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 1 / 3
From which shellfish or fish could be retrieved and sold Could be used for industrial purposes
- All impoundments of water defined by waters of the US by the above
- Tributaries of the waters defined above
- The territorial sea
- Wetlands adjacent to any of the waters defined above
Beneficial Uses definition - Correct Answer Uses necessary for the survival of and well-being of people, plants, and wildlife Water quality standards definition - Correct 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 - Correct Answer est a process for states, territories, and tribes to i.d. impaired waters, also referred to as water quality limited TMDL - Correct 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 - Correct Answer allocations of pollutant loadings to point sources TMDL Implementation - Correct Answer Define waste load allocation, develop implementation plan to connect allocations and permits, translate allocations to permit conditions.Origin of NPDES stormwater regs - Correct Answer NURP studies showed stormwater had many of the same qualities of commercial, industrial areas NPDES Phase I and II regs implemented via - Correct Answer General permits for a group of similar dischagers such as consutruction industry, industrial, utilities Individual permits for a single entity, facility or project 2 / 3
Phase I NPDES Permits ID'd as: - Correct Answer Industrial activity
Construction activity <5 acres Cities over 100k population Phase II NPDES Permits ID'd as: - Correct Answer Construction activity 1 - 5 acres Cities 10k - 100k population commercial, retail, light industrial, institutional updated industrial and const. general permits Phase II impletmented MS4 requirements - Correct Answer SWMP with 6 MCMs Develop measurable program goals Evaluate effectivness 6MCMs - Correct Answer Public education/outreach Public participation and involvement IDDE Const. site runoff control post-construction runoff control pollution prevention/good housekeeping Components of Permit Compliance - Correct Answer NOI COI SWPPP NOT Record keeping and doumentation What A SWPPP Should include - Correct Answer Narrative description potential pollutants (batteries, concrete, etc.) Size of site
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