DWQ-2025-001629

UTAH DIVISION OF WATER QUALITY 1

2025 MWPP Survey - Frequently Asked Questions. For clarity, the 2025 MWPP Survey is conducted in
early 2025, but it covers 2024 data.
What is happening with the 2025 MWPP Survey?
The Division of Water Quality (DWQ) has added two questions in the Collections section of the survey.

What should I expect?
DWQ is trying to keep the questions the same to be able to compare results from year to year.
A link to the 2025 MWPP Survey (for calendar year 2024) will be sent to the contact person associated with each facility (treatment, collections, and small lagoons) on our contacts list. If the person that receives the
email is no longer the primary facility contact person, they should notify DWQ at [e-mail] that
they are no longer the contact person for that facility. DWQ will then track down who the new contact
person is.
Facilities that have knowingly changed contacts should notify and update DWQ so that they are not missed
in the survey.
Where can I find the MWPP Survey?
If you are expecting a survey request but have not received it, please notify DWQ at [e-mail].
The link for taking the survey is: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf0CVOkluzlzwlXL4Sa9GelX2JQ_ebVgzTDzNUTjyx_OI0VAA/viewform?usp=sf_link
The due date for the survey this year is April 15, 2025 (the normal deadline for the MWPP Survey).
If DWQ receives a bounced email, we will contact your facility to update the primary contact information.
How do I take the Survey? There are seven sections in the survey: 1) the Introduction, 2) the Financial Evaluation Section, 3) the Collection System Section, 4) the Mechanical Section, 5) the Discharging Lagoon
Section, 6) the Non-Discharging Lagoon Section, and 7) the Adopt & Sign Section. As you sign on to take
the survey, you will automatically be directed to the appropriate sections as you go through the survey
answering the questions.
You can separate a survey file for Treatment and Collections if you wish, just send DWQ separate contacts
for your Treatment Division/Collections Division, or from one contact enter the survey twice identifying each
section of your facility so that the two Divisions can be distinguished. You must complete and submit one before you can begin the second. One file for both is the norm because you perform the survey once.
Google forms will allow you to stop, close down, and then restart at where you left off; if you restart from the link in the original email survey invite. You have the ability to re-enter the survey as many times as you like before you submit the survey. This gives you the ability to make changes anywhere in the survey as long as
you have not submitted it. After submitting the survey, you will not be able to return and change anything in
the survey, however if you persist and re-enter the link after the survey has been submitted you will produce
a duplicate survey. If that happens you can tell us which one is correct, otherwise we will choose the latest one.
UTAH DIVISION OF WATER QUALITY 2
There are only a few questions in the survey that requires a response or you cannot proceed. The purpose
for this is to enable the survey taker to continue and complete the survey if he/she happens to come upon a question that confounds them so that they can close down (without submitting) and return later with the
proper data. The purpose of the survey is to gather information. The information helps DWQ prepare for
and confront challenges in the wastewater industry. DWQ encourages all survey takers to respond as
carefully as possible to all questions before the survey is submitted.
Multiple parties responding. Google Forms does not come with an option to send the MWPP Survey to
multiple people through their emails for one submission, but multiple people can work from the one
invitation. There are three ways to gather information from more than one person.
1. Gather the Necessary People to Complete the Survey. Gather the necessary people around the
computer of the individual who has received the email with the link, and have each person respond in turn to the questions as the questions come of their expertise. Complete the entire survey trading off the person responding to questions until the survey is complete.
2. Preview the Questions and Mark the Response Before Entering the Link for the Survey. You
may request a form from DWQ that has all the questions as they are presented in the survey (send
an email to [e-mail]). Pass the form around to those who know the questions and mark
a response to each of the questions of the sections that apply to your facility (cross out non-relevant
sections). After filling out the form at your convenience, one person can then complete the survey by
entering the gathered data into the on-line survey.
3. Generate a Generic Email for the Survey. Have each person with specialized knowledge of each
of the Sections enter the Survey in the generic email through the link, one at a time, to answer the
questions until the Survey is completed. Recall that the survey can be closed down and re-entered
again without loss of input as long as the link is entered in the originally sent email, and the survey
has not been sumitted.
Be informed that if you receive the printed form with the survey questions you will note that the questions
are alphabetized. The column headers in a large spreadsheet that the survey generates is alphabetized in
the same order. If you discover that you made an incorrect entry after submitting the form, please call or
email Harry Campbell at 385-501-9583 or [e-mail] and list which facility you represent, list the
letters labelling the question, and the correct response for that question. It can then be corrected.
Survey Report. At the completion of the Survey there is an option to download a copy of the completed
survey for your use. That is the only place where you can choose to print a copy showing the results of your
survey. You must make that choice before you submit the form which is the next click.