16-Civ-B5 Water Supply and Wastewater Treatment: Undated paper

Paper format and reference texts

Paper format. National Examination, May 2019 — 16-Civ-B5 Water Supply and Wastewater Engineering. Three hours; closed book with one aid sheet written on both sides; an approved Casio or Sharp calculator is permitted. Question 1 is compulsory and candidates attempt any three of Questions 2 to 5, so 100 marks are on offer from a 125-mark set. Marks are shown at the end of each question, and the paper states that clarity and organisation of answers are important. Because the set is a study resource rather than a sitting, all five questions are solved here.

Reference texts.

• Metcalf & Eddy | AECOM, Wastewater Engineering: Treatment and Resource Recovery, 5th ed. — flow projection, secondary treatment, oxygen demand, nitrogen.
• Crittenden et al., MWH's Water Treatment: Principles and Design, 3rd ed. — coagulation, flocculation, filtration, disinfection chemistry.
• Davis & Cornwell, Introduction to Environmental Engineering, 5th ed. — population equivalent, peaking factors, distribution systems, sewer hydraulics.
• Mihelcic & Zimmerman, Environmental Engineering: Fundamentals, Sustainability, Design, 3rd ed. — mass balances and effluent loading.
• APHA / AWWA / WEF, Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater — indicator-organism enumeration, residual chlorine.
• Health Canada, Guidelines for Canadian Drinking Water Quality (GCDWQ); CCME, Canadian Environmental Quality Guidelines — the Canadian regulatory frame used throughout.