WTRQ 1210 - Regulations & Compliance

Credit hours: 2

Course Description:
This course outlines federal, state and local regulations pertaining to drinking water and wastewater treatment processes. The course provides students with opportunities to practice record keeping and report writing skills needed for maintaining compliance at drinking water and wastewater treatment facilities. The course includes required field experience at a local drinking water and wastewater treatment facility.

Student Learning Outcomes:
Students will be able to:

Relate broad concepts, principles, and theory pertaining to regulations that apply to water treatment plants and wastewater treatment plants in Tennessee.
Explain the origin of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Clean Water Act, the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System, and the Safe Drinking Water Act.
Identify which regulations apply to particular operational aspects of activities at water and wastewater treatment plants.
Differentiate between biomonitoring criteria, water-quality based effluent limitations, and technology-based effluent limitations.
List the major types of contaminants potentially present in drinking water, and provide examples of each type.
Differentiate between primary and secondary drinking water standards.
Sketch, label, and describe water treatment process steps where key water-quality parameters should be measured and indicate, where appropriate, what levels for the parameters would be deemed acceptable.