PMED2 Flashcards
Navmed P-5010-6
Water supply afloat
What is a raised frame to keep out water?
Coaming
What is the process of distilling plant forms, including evaporation and condensation?
Distillation
What is chlorine available in the forms of hypochlorous acis and hypochlorite forms?
Free available chlorine
What are the two forms of FAC
Hypochlorus and Hypochlorite
What is a unit of length, one millionth of a meter?
Micron
Water that is suitable for human consumption, bathing, laundry, personal hygiene?
Potable Water
What is the reverse of natural osmosis achieved by external application of sufficient reverse pressure to cause the solvent to flow in its unnatural direction?
Reverse Osmosis RO
What are tests used to detect total coliform and E-coli in potable water?
Colilert and Colisure
What are a group of closely related mostley harmless bacteria that live in water as well as in the guts of animals?
Total Coliform
What can indicate the general quality of the water and the likelyhood of water being contaminated with fecal matter?
Total Coliform
What is the standard of drinking water?
The presence or absence pf total coliform bacteria
What does the presence of E-Coli signify
Recent sewage or animal waste contamination as sewage may contain many types of disease causing organisms.
Who is responsible for shipboard potable water systems, including treatment facilities and processes to assure that safe drinking water is available at all times. They regulate:
Design
Construction
Maintenance
Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEASYSCOM)
Who is responsible for promulgating instructions for ship-to-shore potable water connections and for providing potable water from an approved source when the ship is berthed at a naval facility?
Naval facilities engineering command (NAVFACENGCOM)
Who is responsible for establishing and promulgating health standards for water quality afloat?
BUMED
Who promulgates appropriate instructions, notices and other publications to reflect afloat water quality requirements?
BUMED
Who establishes the shipboard requirements for medical surveillance of potable water systems?
BUMED
Who is responsible for issuing the necessary implementing directives to ensure adequate water sanitation standards are provided and enforced in each ship in the command?
Area, fleet and subordinate commanders
Whos responsible for promulgating awater sanitation bill to ensure that procedures for receipt, transfer, treatment, storage, distribution, and surveillance are provided and followed?
CO
Who is responsible to the CO for implementing the requirements of NAVSEASYSCOM
Engineering Dept.
What are the responsibilities of the Eng. Dept for potable water afloat
- Supply and treatment of potable water
- Potable water system components (see TG)
- Ensure all connections are made only by auth. personnel, or in their absence ship personnel who are properly supervised by AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL.
-Halogen and PH testing.
- Ensuring minimal Halogen residules before adding to the water distribution system.
Who is responsible for Conducting a medical surveillance profram of the potable water system?
MDR
What needs to be done for the med. surveillance program? For water afloat
- Bacteriological testing
- DAILY halogen testing
- MDR shall notify the CO of any discrepancies observed in the potable water distribution system.
Minimum water usage requirements?
50 gallons per day specified by NAVSEASYSCOM.
During water hours it is no less than 2 gallons per man per day.
What are 5 approved water sources? For water at sea
- Distillation, RO, or other NAVSEA approved water production technology.
- Shore to ship delivery from approved source.
- Shore to Ship from unapproved source.
- Ship to ship
- Sea water for fire mains, decon, and marine sanitation devices.
When should you avoid making water?
Harbors or puluted sea water
When ships are close in formation
When stripping or discharging waste or bilge water forward of the saltwater intakes
Who approves public water systems?
EPA
What is the required ppm to recieve water form unnaproved sources?
2.0ppm
What is the required ppm from approved sources?
0.2ppm
What are the types of water production plants?
Distillation
Reverse Osmosis
What are the diffrent types of distillation plants?
Steam distilling plants
Waste heat distilling plant
Vapor Compression type
What are the types of RO?
Single and triple pass
Single - Additional disinfection is requires.
Triple - Additional disinfection is not required
What kind of water cannot be used to fill potable water tanks? Under what circumstances could it be allowed?
BALLAST water. If necessary for the survival of the ship.
Who sets the standard for water tank coatings?
NSF/ANSI
Vents and Overflow lines, what do they do and where can they not be terminated?
Located to reduce accidental contamination.
Unauth:
Food service spaces
Med
Toilets
Electercal
Exterior of ship
Locations of manholes
On top of tank (1/2inch curb or coaming above deck)
On side of tanke (flush ok)
How must sounding tubes be labeled?
POTABLE WATER USE ONLY in dark blue
Filling lines must be:
Clearly labeled
color coded dark blue
18 inches from deck
turned facing downward
screw caps with keeper chains
What do potable water lines that distribute water to non potable tanks need to have?
Air gap
Potable water hose lockers must be:
18 inches off the deck
Vermin proof
Locked
Printed step by step instructions for disinfection of hoses and risers posted conspicuously inside the locker
Potable water hose shall be
Approved for potable water use
Examined routinely
SHALL NOT BE USED FOR ANY OTHER PURPOSE
Capped or coupled and stored in locker
Labels on hose:
POTABLE WATER ONLY with 1 inch high letters every 10 feet
Couplings color coded dark blue