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