CESSWI PART I – Q’S AND A’S – 100%
VERIFIED
CESSWI is qualified to preform what inspections? - -Construction, post
construction, industrial, MS4
-Clean Water Act year of creation and intent of law - -1972, enacted to
restore and maintain the physical, bio, chem integrity of the waters of the US
-CWA Section 402 - -Est. NPDES System, originally focused on industrial
process waste water and POTW
-CWA Section 404 - -regulated impacts to waters of the US, typically
associated with a 401 certification
-CWA Section 401 - -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 - -Establishes Water quality standards
-Stormwater discharge definition - -stormwater runoff, snow melt runoff,
and surface runoff/drainage
-To be subject to NPDES rules, stormwater must: - -be in a discernible
conveyance
-Definitions of waters of the US - -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 purposes
o 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 - -Uses necessary for the survival of and well-
being of people, plants, and wildlife
, -Water quality standards definition - -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 - -est a process for states, territories, and tribes to i.d.
impaired waters, also referred to as water quality limited
-TMDL - -id's the amount of a specific pollutnant that may be dicharged to a
water body, states are responsible for implementing
-Waste load allocations - -allocations of pollutant loadings to point sources
-TMDL Implementation - -Define waste load allocation, develop
implementation plan to connect allocations and permits, translate allocations
to permit conditions.
-Origin of NPDES stormwater regs - -NURP studies showed stormwater had
many of the same qualities of commercial, industrial areas
-NPDES Phase I and II regs implemented via - -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: - -Industrial activity
Construction activity <5 acres
Cities over 100k population
-Phase II NPDES Permits ID'd as: - -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 - -SWMP with 6 MCMs
Develop measurable program goals
Evaluate effectivness
-6MCMs - -Public education/outreach
Public participation and involvement
IDDE
Const. site runoff control
post-construction runoff control
pollution prevention/good housekeeping
-Components of Permit Compliance - -NOI
COI