Course; global environment
Assignment Instructions
1. Visit New York City Department of Environmental Protection website (https://www.nyc.gov/site/dep/water/drinking-water.page) and answer these 2 questions:
A. Report on the current total reservoir levels (as %) for the NYC system. Report date observed.
B. Stay on this page and determine how many days of water NYC will have should it completely stop raining? Use the formula Total Reservoir Capacity in billions of gallons divided by Water Consumption per day in billions of gallons (you will need to sum up the reservoir values manually).
C: Is the current level above or below what is normally expected?
2. Stay on this website and retrieve the “Drinking Water Supply and Quality Report” for 2022.
A. While testing for quality, how many analyses did NYC DEP conduct on the drinking water distribution system and upstate reservoir watersheds in 2022 (do not include robotic monitoring)?
B. List all the chemical and physical parameters that were in violation for that year (above MCL – Maximum Contaminant Level).
3. Visit Google Earth
A. Locate a municipal sewage treatment plant outside NYC. Copy the images GPS coordinates, City, State
B. Identify (to the best of your ability) and label as many processes as you can. (You may have to use a graphics program but pasting into WORD and using text boxes also works)
C. Find the Sewage Treatment Plant servicing Disney World in Orlando Florida? (HINT: Head south from the Grand Floridan Resort & Spa and look for the rectangular tanks).
1. Provide the coordinates (in decimal degrees (xx.xxxxxx).
2. Where does the final effluent go?
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