Operation Of Wastewater Treatment Plants

Front 1

As an operator, you are responsible to your employer for maintaining an economical and efficient operating facility. T or F

Back 1

True

Front 2

An operator has an obligation to the great numbers of people who rely on downstream water supplies and are totally dependent on the operator;s competence and trustworthiness for their welfare. T or F

Back 2

True

Front 3

Today, the natural purification processes in rivers treat all the waste loads and keep rivers clean. T or F

Back 3

False

Front 4

Operators are water quality protectors on the front line of the water pollution battle.

Back 4

True

Front 5

The main benefit of a successful wastewater treatment program is the protection of public health. T or F

Back 5

True

Front 6

Without adequate, reliable records of every phase of operation, the effectiveness of your operation has not been documented (recorded) T or F

Back 6

True

Front 7

Your records showing a high-quality effuent will mean nothing to citizens visiting your plant unless your plant appears clean and well maintained and the effluent looks good. T or F

Back 7

True

Front 8

Safety is never an operator responsibility. T or F

Back 8

False

Front 9

Chief operators frequently have the responsibility of training new operators and must encourage all operators to work safely. T or F

Back 9

True

Front 10

The wastewater treatment field is changing rapidly and operators, maintenance personnel, foreman, managers, instrumentation experts, and laboratory technicians are sorely needed. T or F

Back 10

True

Front 11

What is a treatment plant operator?

1. The contact for media and regulatory agencies

2. The final and essential link in maintaining and protecting the aquatic environment upon which all life depends

3. The operator who coordinates the efforts of designers and builders

4. The person responsible for keeping expenditures within budget

Back 11

The final essential link in maintaining and protecting the aquatic environment upon which all life depends

Front 12

Why are wastewater treatment plants built?

1. To divert polluted water from a community

2. To occupy space alongside rivers

3. To provide opportunities for designers and builders to display their skills

4. To purify soiled water and prevent water pollution

Back 12

To purify soiled water and prevent water pollution

Front 13

How should wastewater treatment plant operators consider their job?

1. As a colleague of other wastewater plant employees

2. As a regularly paid wastewater plant employee

3. As a secure position with the plant

4. As a water quality protector on the front line of the water pollution control battle

Back 13

As a water quality protector on the front line of the water pollution control battle

Front 14

What is the primary objective of an operator operating a wastewater treatment plant?

1. To achieve the highest level of certification possible

2. To convince the public that the operators deserve top pay

3. To keep the sewer-user charges as low as possible

4. To protect the receiving water quality by continuous and efficient plant performance

Back 14

To protect the receiving water quality by continuous and efficient plant performance

Front 15

How can a well-guided tour for other operators help an operators?

1. May allow the other operators to suggest helpful solutions to operational problems

2. May convince the other operators to suggest better employment opportunities

3. May develop long-lasting friendships

4. May reveal good fishing opportunities

Back 15

May allot the other operators to suggest helpful solutions to operational

Front 16

What types of employers might a wastewater treatment plant operators work for?

1. A city, sanitation district or other public agency

2. A company that transports collected samples to a laboratory for analysis

3. A large industry that operates its own treatment plant

4. A private contractor retained to operate and maintain a municipal or industrial treatment plant

5. An agency that collects delinquent sewer-user service charges

Back 16

1,3,4

Front 17

Why do watewater treatment plant operators need continuous training? Due to ______?

1. Advanced or improved equipment

2. Increasing budgets

3. Increasing instrumentation

4. More facility tours

5. New treatment techniques

Back 17

1, 3, 5

Front 18

Why should an operator be present or at least available during the construction period of a new plant?

1. To become familiat with the entire plant, including the equipment and machinery and their operation.

2. To discuss with the engineer how the treatment plant should best be run

3. To ensure that the contractor stays within the budget

4. To observe how the contractor's enployees perform their tasks

5. To relate the plant drawing to actual facilities

Back 18

1, 2, 5

Front 19

Operators are in the field of public relations and must be able to explain the purpose and operation of their plant to which groups?

1. City council or directors of the plant

2. Civic organizations

3. Officials of regulatory agencies

4. Representatives of news media

5. School classes

Back 19

all choices

Front 20

Which factors are contributing to the increasing need for trained wastewater treatment plant operators?

1. More sophisticated treatment

2. Operator certification regulations

3. Population growth

4. Regulatory requirements

5. Retirement of many current operators

Back 20

all choices