Name:______________

Year 7
Porters Creek Dam, Water Treatment
Plant & the Waste Water Treatment
Process

Fieldwork booklet

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Local Water Services

1. Locate your local water storage facility, water treatment plant and waste treatment plant on
the map bellow. Provide the longitude and latitude of each.

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 2. Draw a field sketch of Porters Creek Dam. Label your sketch using the glossary of words.

Glossary – bank, water level. Weir/dam wall, shrubs/plant life, fencing, grasses, litter

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2. Observation table for Porters Creek Dam

Colour of water

Water clarity – visibility? Light able to

pass through? Clear or murky?

Evidence of flowing water?

Turbidity

Temperature
- air (from BOM site)
- fresh water
Estimate width of dam
Causeway / weir (in m)

Estimate depth (in cm) of water behind

the weir

Evidence of erosion / flooding

Evidence of pollution of the dam

What form?

Where from?

Possible impacts?

Evidence of animals

In the dam

On the banks or surrounds

Plants
Main types – location

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Water Treatment Process

1. Draw a field sketch of the Water Treatment facility.

2. How does the treatment plant receive its water?

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 3. What are the steps for purifying water? Write a brief description of each in the table
provided.

Term Description
Coagulaiton

Flocculation

Filtration

Chemical Dosing

pH Correction

Fluoridation

4. What are the three stages of distribution?

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Waste Water Treatment

1. What are the three stages of the Waste Water Treatment process
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2. Explain what occurs during Primary Treatment

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3. Explain what occurs during Secondary Treatment

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4. Explain what occurs during Tertiary Treatment

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 5. What is REMS? Why is it an important water management strategy?

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6. What are Biosolids?

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 1. Create a flow chart of water storage, treatment and waste water management in our local
area.