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Coagulation, the jar test, filtration and backwash, chlorine and the breakpoint curve, CT, corrosion control and the pounds formula. Every topic gets its own page: the drawing first, then what you need to remember. 65 illustrated pages.
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These are real pages from the book. The table of contents is the full one: 9 parts and 61 topics.
You're at the sed basin after a storm. The water coming out is still cloudy, and the supervisor asks you why the floc isn't forming.
You know the answer is somewhere in coagulation. But the manual covers colloids, surface charge and charge neutralization in three dense paragraphs, and none of it shows you what's happening in the water.
In the book, that's one page. Tiny particles drawn with minus signs, pushing each other away. Then the coagulant's positive ions land between them, and you watch them start to stick.
The same goes for the jar test, backwash, the breakpoint curve, CT and the pounds formula: each one has its own page.
You get it, and you can explain it right there at the basin, without going back to the manual.
The plant and the exam, source water and intake, coagulation to sedimentation, filtration, disinfection and chlorine chemistry, water quality, operator math, rules, lab and safety, and a final review: 65 pages, all illustrated
Think of it this way:
It's the night shift. The chlorine residual at the clearwell came in low, and you need to know how many pounds a day to feed before the supervisor asks.
You open the page on the pounds formula and there it is, drawn: MGD × mg/L × 8.34 = lbs/day, solved in the same 3 steps every time: what you know, which formula, units in and out.
Same with the jar test, backwash, the breakpoint curve, CT and detention time: each one on its own page.
Water Treatment Operator Illustrated is 65 pages in 9 parts, every topic drawn, and the last part of the book closes with the whole plant in 7 review questions, a one-page formula sheet, the mix-ups to avoid and an exam-day checklist.
What you see drawn, you don't have to memorize.
The treatment train on one page, how state certification works, surface water vs. groundwater plants, the units and the 3-step method for every math problem
What raw water brings in, lake turnover, intakes and screens, wells and their protection, pre-oxidation and aeration
Why particles won't settle, alum, ferric and polymers, alkalinity and pH, rapid mix, flocculation, the jar test step by step, sedimentation basins and sludge: so you can read a jar test and explain why the floc isn't forming
How a rapid filter works, head loss and the filter run, backwash step by step, filter problems you can see, turbidity limits, other filters and Cryptosporidium log removal
HOCl vs. OCl⁻, demand, dose and residual, free vs. combined, the breakpoint curve, chloramination, CT, chlorine forms, UV, ozone, chlorine dioxide and byproducts
Corrosion control and lead, hardness and softening, iron and manganese, fluoridation, taste and odor, storage tanks and distribution
Conversions, tank volumes, the pounds formula with gas and hypochlorite, detention time, filter loading and backwash rate, overflow and weir loading, percent removal, CT and pump math: every problem in the same 3 steps, so you always know which number goes where
The SDWA rules on one map, key MCLs, sampling the right way, plant lab tests, chlorine gas safety, confined spaces and lockout, records and public notice
The whole plant in 7 questions, a one-page formula sheet, mix-ups to avoid and an exam-day checklist
At the end of the book: The whole plant in 7 questions, a one-page formula sheet, the mix-ups to avoid and an exam-day checklist.
Test yourself on every section of the book, and each answer points back to the page that explains it.
See the mix-ups that trip up operators most often, like free vs. combined chlorine, mg/L vs. lbs/day and gpm vs. MGD, each drawn wrong and then right.
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You see the whole plant in order, intake to storage tank, and learn where each term sits before you memorize a single one.
You review chlorine, CT and the operator math in the same 3 steps every time, then test yourself with the exam-style questions.
You keep the formulas, the conversions and the breakpoint curve printed and on hand, to check a reading or explain it to a new operator.
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Yes. It starts from the treatment train you already run and covers the core chemistry, math and rules that come up from entry level through the higher grades. States name their levels differently (Grade, Class, T1–T5, A–D) and set their own exams, so check your board's list of topics: the book covers the ground they share.
From the U.S. EPA drinking water rules under the Safe Drinking Water Act (40 CFR Part 141), plus OSHA 29 CFR 1910 for safety. The numbers are the ones in force today. Where a rule is changing, like the lead action level going from 0.015 to 0.010 mg/L on Nov 1, 2027, the page shows both numbers and the date. Every regulatory number is marked so you can check it against your state's program, since states can be stricter.
No. It's independent study material. It isn't issued or endorsed by the EPA, any state or any certification board, and it doesn't give you a certificate, CEUs or contact hours toward your license.
No. It doesn't replace your state's required training, your hours at the plant, OSHA safety training or your plant's procedures for chlorine cylinders and confined spaces. It's for studying and reviewing.
No. They're exam-style questions written for this book, and each answer points back to the page that explains it.
The book and the 2 bonus books come as PDFs by email, to the address you enter at checkout.
No. It's a one-time payment.
Yes. It's a PDF you can print, all of it or just the pages you need, and keep at the plant.
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No more rereading and having nothing stick.
The breakpoint curve: you see it drawn, and that's it.
You walk into the exam knowing where everything sits in the plant.
Drawings make studying faster.
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