SC SEPTIC PRACTICE NEWEST ACTUAL EXAM

SC SEPTIC PRACTICE NEWEST ACTUAL / EXAM

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ONSITE WASTEWATER SYSTEM - ----Answers---A system, generally consisting of a collection sewer, septic tank(s), and subsurface wastewater infiltration area, designed to treat and dispose of domestic wastewater through a combination of natural processes that ultimately result in effluent being transmitted through the soil, renovated, and ultimately discharged to groundwater.

Small Onsite Wastewater System - ----Answers---- An individual system serving an individually deeded residence or business that generates less than fifteen hundred (1500) gallons per day of domestic 4 | Regulation 61-56 wastewater.Management and maintenance of each system is the responsibility of the individual property owner.

2) Large Onsite Wastewater System - ----Answers---An individual system that treats and disposes of domestic wastewater discharges in excess of fifteen hundred (1500) gallons per day

Privately Owned Large System - ----Answers---- A large onsite wastewater collection and treatment system that serves one piece of deeded property such as a school, adult residential care facility, rental apartment complex, shopping center, campground, mobile home park, office complex, etc. 1 / 2

Management and maintenance of the system is the responsibility of the individual property owner

• Community (Cluster) System - ----Answers---A wastewater

collection and treatment system that provides shared collection, treatment, and disposal of domestic wastewater from multiple parcels or multiple units of individually deeded property. Such a system might serve a small subdivision or a condominium complex. It is imperative with such systems that some form of common ownership and management be established and approved by the Department.

PARENT MATERIAL - ----Answers---The unconsolidated and chemically weathered mineral or organic matter from which the column of soils is developed by pedogenic processes.

PERCHED ZONE OF SATURATION - - ----Answers---A soil horizon that is a perched water table soil horizon that is intermittently saturated with water above a soil horizon that is not saturated with water

PLASTICITY - - ----Answers---The degree to which "puddled" or reworked soil can be permanently deformed without rupturing. The evaluation is made in accordance with the Field Book by forming a roll (wire) of soil at a water content where the maximum plasticity is expressed.

PRIMARY TREATMENT - ----Answers---The initial process to separate solids from the liquid, digest organic matter and

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