The PuzzBuzz
Across
- 1. Valve type best used for controlling flow rate
- 3. Operating a pump at low flow and high head
- 6. USC campus known for their Water Operator manual and course
- 7. Right/Wrong Tank mixers reduce average water age
- 10. Prolific egg-laying duck breed
- 12. Virginia marsupial, slang
- 14. Facility Analyte Level, abbr.
- 17. The second D in DPD
- 21. Famous funny(?) bear
- 22. Class ABC, for example
- 23. NSF standard for drinking water treatment chemicals
- 25. On the US $10 bill
- 26. Helium nucleus, slang
- 27. Used to prepare turbidity standards
- 28. Will turn DPD pink even with no chlorine
- 31. Dairy animal with rectangular pupil
- 32. Contains hexane, heptane, octane, et al.
- 35. Purification of water by boiling and condensation
- 37. Valve type that will prevent atmospheric tank from overflowing
- 39. Discoverer of the neutron
- 40. Drilling method used in coastal plain
- 42. Small valve used to control a large valve
- 44. Genus of poison ivy
- 46. First Virginia county, alphabetically
- 47. Same number of protons, different number of neutrons
- 50. Affects the thyroid, spontaneously formed in hypochlorite
- 53. Pressure measured relative to atmospheric pressure
- 56. 750 milliliters is roughly a _ of a gallon
- 58. Number of wires to a "three-wire" pump
- 63. Right/Wrong Giardia requires a lower UV dose than viruses for equivalent log reduction, according to EPA's UVDGM
- 68. Piebald horse, old Ford
- 70. Mafic rock known for intrusions like dikes and sills in Virginia's Piedmont
- 71. Effect of ferric chloride on pH
- 74. Alloy or iron and carbon
- 76. Nutrient added to flour to prevent spina bifida
- 77. 125 watts for 8 hours
- 78. The first D in DPD
- 80. Famous Italian, rivalled by turtle
- 81. Calcium carbonate mineral
- 82. E.g. Cyanide to cyanate
- 84. Animal disease communicable to humans
- 85. An elbow with male and female threads
- 86. Interrupts a circuit if there is a ground fault
- 92. Seas on the moon
- 93. 7000 of these in a pound
- 94. Chemical reaction that releases heat, adj.
- 96. Current when an electric motor is first energized
- 98. Eight inches of 6" pipe holds about this much volume
- 100. To move food, or treatment chemicals, by squeezing a tube progressively
- 102. Ampersand, in Latin
- 104. This is relieved to prevent back-siphonage
- 109. Diameter doubles while area _
- 111. Barrier around tank outlet
- 112. A 4% sodium fluoride solution is said to be this
- 113. The MCLG for radium
- 114. Famous plumber known for fungicide
- 115. Drinking water contaminant with 50 ug/L MCL before 2006
- 117. Water is _ at about 4 degrees celcius
- 120. Stress that tends to pull apart
- 122. Tallest mountain in Virginia
- 129. Most French volumetric glassware
- 130. Bacteria can oxidize ammonia to this
- 133. Large, slow-moving agitator
- 134. 1000 of these in a liter
- 135. Toothy fish invasive in Virginia
- 136. 12 grams of carbon
- 137. A test for membrane integrity using compressed air, abbr.
- 138. Near the floor in the chlorine room
- 139. How long coatings can be applied after mixing
- 140. Valve type most common on 6" pipe
- 141. Colilert turns this color with chlorine
- 142. Titanium mineral once mined in Virginia
- 143. Grain associated with ergotism
- 144. Caused by the spontaneous creation and then collapse of bubbles
- 145. The C in CT
Down
- 2. High-temp glassware material
- 4. Doe, a ____
- 5. Use with PVC, also a horse
- 8. Non-coliform that causes pneumonia
- 9. Volumetric glassware most often confused with a Muppet
- 11. Opportunist pathogen, causes pink/orange stains
- 13. Gasses are _ soluble in hot water than cold
- 15. Pink and green rock, hydrothemally metamorphized, found near Vesuvius, Virginia
- 16. Manganese field method, less sensitive than PAN
- 18. Radioactive hydrogen
- 19. Unit of electrical potential
- 20. Virginia town known for its hot air balloon tank
- 24. Clay mineral sometimes used as well grout
- 27. Inversely proportional to wavelength
- 29. Unit of electrical charge
- 30. Alloy of copper and zinc
- 33. 254 nm, for example
- 34. Noble gas from radium
- 36. Popular brand of asbestos-cement pipe
- 38. Chloramine compound formed if you underfeed ammonia
- 41. Lead bioaccumulates in these
- 43. South African anteater
- 45. Right/Wrong Haloacetic acids always increase with water age
- 48. Metals like cobalt, titanium, and iron, as a group
- 49. Giardia, Naegleria, for example
- 50. Four-chlorine carcinogen used for dry-cleaning
- 51. Chicken breed known for soft plumage and small eggs
- 52. Banned from gasoline in the 90s
- 54. Common complaint with caustic overfeed
- 55. A fitting that allows easy (hopefully!) disassembly of pipes
- 57. Supplies inrush current to an electric motor
- 59. Process to agitate surface of filter before backwash
- 60. Soda ash is to sodium as _ is to potassium
- 61. Caustic soda is the _ of sodium
- 62. Section of WW Regs with MCLs
- 64. The lady and the _____
- 65. E.g. Sulfur to hydrogen sulfide
- 66. Virginia town once known for their dinosaurs
- 67. Magnesium carbonate mineral
- 69. Hours a waterworks has to notify ODW of a critical failure
- 72. Effervescent
- 73. Mollusc with W-shaped pupil
- 75. Jovian moon believed to have liquid water oceans
- 79. Coating take longer to cure at _ temperature
- 81. Organic acid used to clean drinking water membranes, make Gummi worms better
- 83. Publishes fire protection standards, abbr.
- 85. _ Drinking Water Information System
- 87. Waters' ability to neutralize acid
- 88. Minimum classification for classified waterworks using caustic
- 89. Unit of electrical resistance
- 90. Virginia town known for hot and cold water tanks
- 91. Common herbicide, statewide monitoring waiver
- 92. Liquid metal found in switches and UV lamps
- 93. Satellite positioning service popular in USA
- 95. Adequate backwash provides filter bed _
- 97. Dial 811 for this helpful lady
- 99. Mass of 1 liter of water
- 101. The difference between free and total chlorine reagent
- 103. Water meter type with impeller
- 105. Metals like lithium, sodium, and potassium, as a group
- 106. Water meter end, a common food
- 107. A geologic fault where adjacent units slip past each other
- 108. Possible health effects of trihalomethanes
- 110. Pressure head, elevation head, and friction loss
- 116. Alkaline earth metal with 2 mg/L MCL
- 118. Rivers that reverse direction
- 119. A large relay used to start motors
- 120. Solvent in electrical tape adhesive
- 121. Virginia town known for chlorine manufacture and mercury contamination
- 123. Bottom of a horizontal pipe
- 124. Short for cousin
- 125. SDR35 pipe is _ than SDR17 pipe
- 126. Risk from mixing permanganate and sugar
- 127. Molecular weight of calcium carbonate
- 128. Effect of caustic feed on alkalinity
- 131. Common complaint during winter
- 132. Vitamin D deficiency causes this
- 133. Bear texture
- 135. Wavelength of ultraviolet, compared to red