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WRF Webcast
Preparedness and Response Practices to
Support Water System Resilience:
Fundamentals, Good Practices, and Innovations
August 17, 2017
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Agenda
Brief Introduction
SpeakersTom Noble, Horsley Witten Group
Christine Herndon, Herndon Solutions Group
Q&A
Water Research Foundation #4601
AWWA Water Industry Technical Action Fund (WITAF) 522
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Preparedness and Response Practices
to Support Water System Resilience:
Fundamentals, Good Practices, and
Innovations
Tom Noble & Christine Herndon
Horsley Witten Group and Herndon
Solutions Group
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Partners
WRF #4601 Water Research Foundation, Alison Witheridge
WITAF #522 American Water Works Association, Kevin Morley
Project Advisory
Committee
U.S. EPA, Brian Pickard
Denver Water, Rebecca Franco
NYC DEP, Paul Bennett
San Jose Water Company, Jim Wollbrinck
Beaufort - Jasper Water & Sewer Authority, Ken Jordan
Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, Steve
Bieber
City of Carmel Utilities, Jaimie Foreman
DC Water Jonathan Reeves
Patti Lamb
Dusti Lowndes
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Webcast Outline
I. Background
II. Objectives &
Outreach
III. Literature Review
IV. Results
V. Product Demo
VI. Q&A
Photo: TheeErin, Flickr
Montrose Avenue at Honore Street, looking West from the El Platform.
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I. Background
• It is difficult to create or learn about “innovative” emergency preparedness and response practices.
• You might be wondering – “What are other utilities doing that I should be doing?”
• The research team reviewed literature, surveyed utilities, and talked to people just like you to find out what they are doing that the rest of us might want to know about.
• We summarized these practices or “tricks” in the final product to share them with others.
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II. Objectives
• Identify existing best and innovative preparedness and response practices
• Develop an initial outreach product for the water sector describing the identified practices
• Develop a mock-up for a future Internet database, tool or app for enhanced digital dissemination of the identified practices
• Identify gaps in practices that may require the development of new practices
• Suggest approaches for filling identified gaps
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II. Outreach
• Research Team/PAC developed survey questions
• Water Sector
• Primacy Agencies
• Emergency Management
• Public Health
• Survey Monkey links distributed via email
• WRF, AWWA, NRWA, WEF
• ASDWA, ACWA
• NEMA, IEMA, IEMS
• NACCHO
• Interviewees selected from the surveys
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III. Literature Review
• Key search terms and strategies developed with PAC
• emergency management, incident management, emergency response, generator, fuel planning: lessons learned, best practices, best management practices, case studies, tips
• Google and Google Scholar used as search engines
• Looking for practices and resources not captured in current “go to” guidance from sources such as EPA and AWWA
• Focused on “non-traditional” sources of information, such as WHO guidance and emergency management journals
• Seeking to find practices in other sectors that may be applicable to the water sector
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IV. Results
Surveys
Water - 355 Primacy - 28 Emergency
Management - 63
Public Health - 32
Interviews
Water -
52 / 123
Primacy - 12/ 17 Emergency
Management -
12/ 37
Public Health -
11 / 16
Literature
225 sources identified 70% classified as emergency planning
and preparedness resources
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Survey Responses*: Utility Size
*355 surveys completed
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Utility Interviews* Conducted
*52 interviews conducted
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Results - Classification
• Administrative – Ideas related to legal frameworks, contracting mechanisms, funding arrangements and creative partnerships.
• Communications – Ideas centered on improving communications.
• Resource Management – Ideas that focus on how personnel or equipment can be better managed during a response or better maintained to improve future responses.
• Preparedness – Ideas to improve overall utility preparedness.
• Incident Management – Ideas to better organize and manage a response.
• Problem Solving – Ideas that help to solve a particular preparedness or response challenge.
Fundamentals - Good Practices – InnovationsNOTE: these are subjective!
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Results - Classification
• Categories then broken into fundamentals, good practices, or innovations
• Identified practices and procedures under each category were further grouped into fundamentals, good practices, or innovations. Fundamentals may already be in place at many utilities. Good practices serve as models for most utilities, and innovations include “out of the box” thinking or cutting edge technologies that may help increase utility resilience.
NOTE: these are subjective!
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