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What is the SDWA? Safe Drinking Water Act
Rules that govern public water systems in providing drinking water to their customers
Let’s play JEOPARDY! Remember: All answers must be in the form of a question!
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Who needs the SDWA?
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Who needs the SDWA? $100
This type of system serves an
average of 25 or more people
a day for at least 60 days per year.
What is a public water system (PWS)?
Who needs the SDWA? $100
Who needs the SDWA? $200
In this type of system, water is
supplied to the same population of
residents all year around.
Who needs the SDWA? $200
What is a community water system (CWS)?
Who needs the SDWA? $300
In this type of system, water is
supplied to the same 25 people for
at least 6 months each year, but
not their residences.
Who needs the SDWA? $300
What is a non-transient, non-community water system (NTNCWS)?
Who needs the SDWA? $400
In this type of system, water is
provided in a place where
people do not live continuously.
Who needs the SDWA? $400
What is a transient, non-community water system (TNCWS)?
Who Needs the SDWA? $500
The _____ or the _____ are
responsible for meeting the
requirements of the Safe
Drinking Water Act.
Who Needs the SDWA? $500
Who is the owner or theoperator?
Multiple-Barrier Approach $100
A study that defines the land area
contributing water to each public
water system, potential sources of
contamination, and determines how
susceptible the water is to this
contamination.
Multiple-Barrier Approach $100
What is a source waterassessment?
Multiple-Barrier Approach $200
_____ develops an EPA-
approved program for assessment
of all source waters in the state.
Multiple-Barrier Approach $200
What is each primacy agency?
Multiple-Barrier Approach $300
True or false? The results of the
source water assessment are
publicly available.
Multiple-Barrier Approach $300
What is true?
Multiple-Barrier Approach $400
Having a safe, protected water source
is first in protection of public health,
but treatment of the water source and
proper operation & maintenance of
the storage and distribution systems
depend on these.
Multiple-Barrier Approach $400
Who are licensed (certified)operators?
Multiple-Barrier Approach $500
The fourth aspect of the multiple-
barrier approach is the provision of
information on these
two topics to consumers.
Multiple Barrier Approach $500
What are water quality andhealth effects?
Public Notification $100
True or false: Customers have the
right to demand copies of ALL
water system records.
Public Notification $100
What is false?
Public Notification $200
Public notification is required
when there are these of any
regulation by the water system.
Public Notification $200
What are violations?
Public Notification $300
This type of violation includes non-
compliance with monitoring
requirements or testing procedures.
Public Notification $300
What is a Tier 2 violation?
Public Notification $400
This type of violation includes
maximum contaminant level violations,
Treatment-technique violations, and
non-compliance with variance or
exemption schedules.
Public Notification $400
What is a Tier 1 violation?
Public Notification $500
Chemical analyses and written
reports are kept for this minimum
time period.
Public Notification $500
What is 10 years?
Name That Rule $100
This rule was enacted to protect
consumers from metals that
originate from home plumbing.
Name That Rule $100
What is the Lead and CopperRule?
Name That Rule $200
This rule regulates a naturally
occurring toxic metal that can
also come from
agricultural or industrial sources.
Name That Rule $200
What is the Arsenic Rule?
Name That Rule $300
This rule requires compliance
monitoring to show a 99.99% reliable
inactivation or removal of viruses
from treated drinking water that
originates under the ground.
Name That Rule $300
What is the Groundwater Rule?
Name That Rule $400
Water systems using ultraviolet light
do not have to monitor finished
water to comply with this regulation.
Name That Rule $400
What is the Stage 1 Disinfectantsand Disinfection Byproducts
Rule (Stage 1 DBP)?
Name That Rule $500
The bacteria used to judge
compliance with this rule are not
actually pathogenic themselves.
Name That Rule $500
What is the Total Coliform Rule?
Mixed Bag $100
Providing a comprehensive one of
these to your customers can keep
them informed and confident that
their water is safe.
Mixed Bag $100
What is a Consumer ConfidenceReport (CCR)?
Mixed Bag $200
True or false: A Tier 2 violation is
more severe than a Tier 1 violation.
Mixed Bag $200
What is false?
Mixed Bag $300
These rules cover inorganics,
synthetics, and volatile organics
in drinking water.
Mixed Bag $300
What are the ChemicalPhase Rules?
Mixed Bag $400
This rule protects consumers from
Cryptosporidium by regulating
recycle flow.
Mixed Bag $400
What is the Filter BackwashRule?
Mixed Bag $500
This rule requires removal of
Cryptosporidium, E. coli and Giardia
lamblia from drinking water that
originates from lakes, rivers
or streams.
Mixed Bag $500
What is the Long-Term 2Enhanced Surface Water
Treatment Rule (LT2)?