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Bar screens, clarifiers, activated sludge, F/M and sludge age, chlorine and UV, digesters, lab tests, confined spaces and operator math. Every topic gets its own page: the drawing first, then what you need to remember. 69 illustrated pages.
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These are real pages from the book. The table of contents is the full one: 9 parts and 65 topics.
You're on rounds at the headworks and the channel ahead of the bar screen is running high. The chief asks if it's time to rake, and what that level is telling you.
The manual covers it in three dense paragraphs: bar spacing, approach velocity, differential level, manual vs mechanical cleaning. All words, nothing to look at, so out on the plant floor nothing comes back.
In the book, bar screens are one page: the manual screen and the mechanical one drawn side by side, the water level before and after the bars marked as headloss, and the screenings headed for the dumpster.
Every other topic works the same way: grit removal, the primary clarifier, the activated sludge loop, the chlorine breakpoint curve, confined space entry. Each one has its own page.
So when the level climbs in that channel, you know what you're looking at and what comes next, without walking back to the office for the manual.
The plant as one flow, operator math, preliminary and primary treatment, activated sludge, other biological processes, disinfection and solids, lab tests and safety, troubleshooting and exam review: 69 pages, all illustrated
Think of it this way:
It's your shift, the settleometer reads high and the blanket in the secondary clarifier keeps climbing. You have to make a call on wasting before the next round.
You open the book to the activated sludge loop and see it drawn: aeration tank, clarifier, RAS going back, WAS going out, with the control knob marked on the drawing.
Same with the pounds formula, the chlorine breakpoint, grab vs composite samples, trickling filters and lockout/tagout: each one on its own page.
Wastewater Operator Illustrated is 9 parts and 65 topics, all drawn, and it ends with the formulas that get mixed up, the most common math mistakes and two checklists.
What you see drawn, you don't have to memorize.
The whole plant from sewer to outfall on one page, what's in wastewater, your NPDES permit and the 30/30/85 rule, collection and lift stations, flow measurement and how states sort certification grades
Every exam problem set up the same way: the 5-step method, the fixed numbers like 8.34 and 7.48 in a box, then tank area and volume, the pounds formula, detention time, overflow rates, percent removal, solids loading, chlorine dose and pump horsepower
Bar screens, grit removal, the primary clarifier, primary sludge and scum, equalization of peak flows and industrial pretreatment
How activated sludge works, the bugs under the microscope, aeration and DO, MLSS and MLVSS, F/M, sludge age and MCRT, settleometer and SVI, RAS, WAS, the secondary clarifier and nitrification
Trickling filters, RBCs, lagoons and stabilization ponds, SBRs and oxidation ditches, and phosphorus removal
Chlorination and contact time, chlorine gas safety, dechlorination, UV, sludge thickening, anaerobic and aerobic digestion, dewatering and biosolids
Grab vs composite sampling, BOD5, TSS and volatile solids, pH, DO and chlorine residual, E. coli testing, confined space entry, H2S, lockout/tagout and other plant hazards
Filamentous bulking, foam on the aeration tank, rising sludge vs bulking, pin floc, straggler floc and ashing, and trickling filter and lagoon problems
The formulas that get mixed up, the most common math mistakes, a daily rounds checklist and an exam-day checklist
At the end of the book: Worked examples in US units (MGD, mg/L, lbs, 8.34), troubleshooting by symptom, and daily rounds and exam-day checklists.
Test yourself with exam-style questions on every section of the plant, each answer explained with the page to review.
Every formula on one card with its units, plus the most common mistakes (wrong units, forgetting 8.34, mixing up MLSS and TSS) to review the night before.
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You see the whole plant as one flow, so every process you walk past on rounds has its page and its place.
Every formula solved in the same 5 steps, in US units, plus practice questions and formula cards for the last nights.
Troubleshooting by symptom and the activated sludge loop drawn, to back up the calls you make, or to go for the next grade.
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Yes. The first part gives you the whole plant on one page, so you can skip what you already know. Where shift operators spend their time is the process control part: F/M, sludge age and MCRT, SVI, RAS and WAS math, and troubleshooting by symptom (bulking, foam, rising sludge, pin floc). That's what you need to back up your calls or go for the next grade.
From US federal rules and standard operator references: the Clean Water Act and EPA NPDES regulations (40 CFR 122, 133, 403 and 503), OSHA 1910.146 and 1910.147, Standard Methods and the operator training manuals used across the US. The math is in US units: MGD, mg/L, lbs and 8.34.
No. It's an independent illustrated study book. It covers the federal rules and the core plant knowledge and math that state wastewater exams ask about, including the many states that use ABC exams. It doesn't cover each state's own grades, experience requirements or application steps: check those with your state certification agency. It doesn't give you a certificate or CEU/contact hours. We're not affiliated with ABC, the EPA or any state certification agency.
No. It's a study companion for your course, your on-the-job training and your plant's safety training (confined spaces, H2S, chlorine, lockout/tagout). It doesn't replace any of them.
No. They're exam-style questions written for this book, each answer explained with the page to review. They're not taken from any official question bank.
The book and the 2 bonus books arrive as PDFs by email, at the address you enter at checkout. Read them on your phone, tablet or computer, or print them.
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Yes. The PDFs are printable: print the whole book or just the pages you want to keep at the plant.
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Bar screens, the sludge loop, the breakpoint: you see them drawn, and you've got it.
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