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18-Env-B2 Water Resources: December 2018

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  1. Question 1 Urban Stream Protection and Soil-Based Wastewater Treatment
  2. Question 2 Trapezoidal Channel — Normal and Critical Depth
  3. Question 3 Sluice Gate and Hydraulic Jump
  4. Question 4 Sanitary Sewer Sizing
  5. Question 5 Shelter Valley Brook Watershed Water Balance
  6. Question 6 Water Pollution Sources, Transport, Modelling Limitations, and Legislation

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National Exams — December 2018 — 18-Env-B2 / Water Resources. 3 hours duration; open-book exam (any non-communicating calculator permitted). Six questions are printed; the first five as they appear in the answer book constitute a complete paper and are marked, each worth 20 marks. All six are solved below for completeness.

Reference texts. Chow, Open-Channel Hydraulics; Metcalf & Eddy, Wastewater Engineering: Treatment and Resource Recovery (5th ed.); Linsley, Kohler & Paulhus, Hydrology for Engineers; Davis & Cornwell, Introduction to Environmental Engineering (6th ed.); Freeze & Cherry, Groundwater; Fisheries Act, Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999; Ontario Water Resources Act and Clean Water Act, 2006 (used here as a representative province); CCME, Canada-Wide Strategy for the Management of Municipal Wastewater Effluent.