This presentation method is best used at the start of a training session. Its purpose is to preview topics to be covered in the workshop, assess how much the workshop participants already know, introduce participants to the trainers, and wake up sleepy or sluggish participants.
This activity is patterned after the popular television game show. Prior to the training, the trainers choose categories that fit the training modules (e.g., Biosolids Quality, Public Information) and prepare "answers" for the Jeopardy Game Board: $20, $40, $60, $80, $100.
Two trainers are needed to make the activity go smoothly. It can be done with one trainer, but the pace will be slower. Tasks for the trainer group are:
At the training session, participants are told to divide up into two or three teams. Trainers may choose to balance the teams by spreading experienced biosolids management personnel among the teams. Teams are best with about 10 participants, but can have many more. Play begins with the moderator picking a team to provide the first response. Team members are allowed to confer briefly before responding. If the response is incorrect, the other team(s) has an opportunity to respond.
Play continues until time runs out (40 to 50 minutes at Oregon Short School). In a slower-paced game, it can take 40 minutes to do the first round of Jeopardy. With a rapid pace, two rounds of Jeopardy and "Final Jeopardy" can be included. A slower pace allows the moderator to provide additional explanatory information beyond the question to participants. This adds value for participants who may not understand why a particular response was "correct" or "incorrect."
A: Impractical crops for class B biosolids application due to 38-month waiting period after application.
Q: What are root crops?A: In Class A biosolids, these are below detectable levels.
Q: What are pathogens?A: Agency that performed scientific risk assessment for land application of biosolids.
Q: What is the EPA?A: Required waiting period for pasture grazing after application of Class B biosolids.
Q: What is 30 days?A: Biosolids that meet pollutant concentration limits and pathogen reduction standards also must meet these standards to be land applied.
Q: What are vector attraction reduction standards?
A: Biosolids provides these nutrients.
Q: What are N, P, K, S, and micronutrients?A: This nutrient usually controls biosolids application rates.
Q: What is nitrogen?A: Biosolids usually supply an excess of this nutrient.
Q: What is phosphorus?A: The term used to describe the rate of biosolids application that matches nitrogen requirements for a specific crop on an annual basis.
Q: What is the agronomic application rate?
A: According to definitions in Oregon Biosolids Rules (Chapter 340, Division 50), liquid biosolids contain less than this percentage of solids.
Q: What is 10 percent solids?A: This agency regulates land application of biosolids in Oregon.
Q: What is the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ)?A: This DEQ-issued document establishes site management conditions for applying biosolids or septage to a specific land application site.
Q: What is a site authorization letter?A: This document, prepared by a wastewater treatment plant, describes planned biosolids production, treatment, storage, and land application activities.
Q: What is a biosolids management plan?A: Required setback or separation between land-applied biosolids and a water supply well.
Q: What is 200 feet?A: These "solid" measures are required by DEQ.
Q: What are Total and Volatile Solids?A: When soil nitrate-nitrogen testing is required at biosolids application sites.
Q: What is prior to the third successive annual application at the same site?
A: Two main products of wastewater treatment.
Q: What are clean water and biosolids?A: This process removes solids from wastewater via gravity.
Q: What is primary treatment?A: This process removes solids and BOD from wastewater via microbial activity.
Q: What is secondary treatment?A: One reason for reduced copper and zinc levels in modern biosolids.
Q: What is raising pH of water in industrial and residential water supply, or what are industrial pretreatment programs?A: Low-tech, solar-powered, biosolids stabilization and dewatering method.
Q: What are drying beds?
A: The biosolids that made Milwaukee famous.
Q: What is Milorganite?A: Untreated sewage solids.
Q: What is sludge?A: Stabilized sewage sludge that meets EPA and Oregon standards for recycling via land application.
Q: What are biosolids?A: Type of rock 'n' roll music, or transition elements from the periodic table.
Q: What are heavy metals?A: EPA jargon for seagulls, flies, mosquitoes, and rats.
Q: What are vectors?
A: This material is used to increase the pH of biosolids to 12 for stabilization and pathogen reduction.
Q: What is lime?A: This program regulates and/or prohibits wastewater pollutant discharges from industries.
Q: What is an industrial pretreatment program?A: In windrow composting, temperature and oxygen concentration in the pile are controlled by doing this.
Q: What is mixing or turning?A: More comprehensive than any previous federal rule-making effort, EPA used this new methodology to determine pollutant levels that are protective of public health and the environment.
Q: What is a comprehensive risk assessment?
A: Pathogens are defined as this.
Q: What are disease-causing organisms?A: PFRP is an acronym for this biosolids treatment classification.
Q: What is a Process to Further Reduce Pathogens?A: This is the minimum temperature required when composting to meet PFRP requirements.
Q: What is 55ºC (131ºF)?A: These are the principal pathogens of concern that we monitor in biosolids to determine Class A criteria.
Q: What are enteric viruses, salmonella sp. bacteria, and viable helminth ova? (Fecal coliform is used as an indicator organism.)A: One way to demonstrate that vector attraction reduction has been achieved is for the volatile solids to be reduced by this percentage during sludge treatment.
Q: What is 38 percent?
A: These are the two basic types of samples.
Q: What are grab and composite samples?A: If using steel sampling equipment, make sure that the steel is not coated with this material, as it readily releases into the sample.
Q: What is zinc or galvanized?A: One of the 10 original pollutants that required monitoring under Part 503, this pollutant recently was removed by EPA, leaving 9 pollutants that require monitoring.
Q: What is chromium?A: This measurement determines the minimum frequency of monitoring required in 40 CFR Part 503.
Q: What is the quantity, in dry metric tons, of biosolids used or disposed of in a 365-day period?A: According to the state and federal regulations, minimum required monitoring frequencies for biosolids testing generally fall into one of these four time frames.
Q: What is once per year, once per quarter (3 times per year), once per 60 days (6 times per year), or once per month (12 times per year)?
A: This is the time required for restricted public access to land with a high potential for exposure after a class B biosolids application.
Q: What is 1 year?A: These are the cropping and use restrictions for Exceptional Quality biosolids, according to Part 503.
Q: What are none?A: Bulk biosolids cannot be applied to the land if it is likely to adversely affect this group or classification of plants and animals.
Q: What are endangered species?A: In general, liquid biosolids or septage should not be surface applied on bare soils where the ground topography exceeds this slope.
Q: What is 12 percent?
A: Annual biosolids reports for the previous year's activities are due to the regulatory agencies by this date.
Q: What is February 19?A: When biosolids exceed Exceptional Quality limits for pollutants, the applier must maintain records documenting cumulative pollutant loading for each application site for this period of time.
Q: What is indefinitely?A: Certification statements for documenting regulatory compliance with EPA rules must be kept and made readily available to inspection for at least this long.
Q: What is 5 years?A: Reporting requirements under Part 503 apply to all municipalities that meet these criteria.
Q: What are Class 1 wastewater treatment facilities, or facilities with design flow greater than 1 mgd, or facilities with a service population greater than 1 million?