Covered: Syllabus, Introduction, and first half of
Water Quality Management Framework
Handouts: Syllabus, Exam of current water quality
management knowledge, first homework, evaluation form
Homework: Homework Set #1 distributed
Course Notes: Covered Chapter 1 Introduction and first
half of Chapter 2 Water Quality Management Framework chapter
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Remember: Homework Set #1 is due Sept. 1
Covered: Finished Water
Quality Management Framework diagram, covered history of water
quality management from prehistoric times through present, and
began covering early material on legislation and regulations.
Handouts: Chapters 3 and 4 and individual
handouts on Model of the Interaction of Technology and Values
figure, figure showing temporal changes in U.S. population and
portions served by water works, collection systems, and
wastewater treatment systems, and figure showing a public toilet
for men dating from early Roman times.
Homework: No homework collected or distributed.
Course Notes: Chapter 2 Water Quality Management
Framework, and start of Chapter 3 Methods of Water Quality
Management.
Textbook: N/A
Remember: Homework Set # 1 due September 1.
Covered: History of water pollution control legislation
from 1961 Act up to 1965 Act.
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# 2 was distributed.
Course Notes: Working in Chapter 4 Legislation and
Regulations
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Remember: Homework Set # 2 due on September 8.
Covered: No class because of Labor Day Holiday.
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Covered: History of water pollution control legislation
from 1965 Act up to 1972 Act.
Handouts: EPA Web page sequence from main page to effluent
limit Parts listing categories of waste discharges and the .pdf
files containing effluent limits to be used in Homework Set # 3;
first page of 1972 Act; typical Federal Register page, and
diagrams of portions of Act pertaining to various aspects of
water quality management; first few pages of Part 405 Dairy
Products Processing Point Source Category.
Homework: Homework Set # 2 was submitted and Homework Set.
# 3 was distributed.
Course Notes: Continuing in Chapter 4 Legislation and
Regulations.
Textbook: N/A
Remember: Homework Set. # 3 is due September 20.
Covered: 1972 Clean Water Act and subsequent activities by Congress
up to 1987 Clean Water Act.
Handouts: Pages from Water Environment Federation publication The
Clean Water Act of 1987 and a supplemental reading list of CE 341 textbooks
for background information.
Homework: Class Participation Assignment #1.
Course Notes: Continuing in Chapter 4 Legislation and
Regulations.
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Remember: Homework Set. # 3 and Class Participation Assignment #1 due September
20.
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Covered: Organization and function of US Environmental Protection
Agency and Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission re water quality
management. Class Participation Assignment #3 was used for class to study
functions of various offices and to relate them to water quality management
framework.
Handouts: EPA and TNRCC Web pages covering organization of overall agency
and the offices dealing with water quality management.
Homework: Homework #4 in progress.
Course Notes: Chapter 5 notes.
Textbook: N/A
Remember: Homework #4 due Oct. 4.
Covered: Municipal organization for water quality management, water
quality criteria and standards, criteria for human health.
Handouts: Chapter 5 and Chapter 6 material (through aquatic life
criteria)
Homework: Homework #4 was turned in. None was assigned.
Course Notes: Finished with Chapter 5 notes and started in Chapter 6.
Textbook: N/A
Remember: No class October 11 and 13, but EPA video will be ready for
viewing.
Covered: Water quality criteria for toxic materials, types of toxicity
tests, development of CMCs and CCCs.
Handouts: Water quality index used by LCRA, basis for toxic material
water quality standards, effluent limits (for future use), and First Hour Quiz
from Fall 1997 course
Homework: Homework Sets #5 and #6 were distributed
Course Notes: Chapter 6 notes in handouts
Textbook: N/A
Remember: Homework Sets #5 and #6 are both due on Wednesday, Oct. 13, no
class Oct. 11 and 13, Mid-Term Exam on Oct. 20
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Updated to August 23, 1999
Department of Civil
Engineering, UT Austin
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