EPA WSD Offers Webinars, Workshops, and Requests for Input
Below are some upcoming resilience opportunities available to state drinking water programs as well as water and wastewater utilities. Please share these opportunities.
Webinars and Workshop
Water Contaminant Information Tool (WCIT) Training
February 22, 2018 at 11:00 AM ET
This training is designed to introduce and refresh users on WCIT, a secure on-line database with comprehensive information about chemical, biological and radiochemical contaminants of concern. The training will include step-by-step instructions for tool functions such as contaminant search, finding and accessing field and confirmatory methods and generating public information reports: https://usepa-wcit-training.eventbrite.com
Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP) Template Training
February 28, 2018 at 1:00 PM ET
It is imperative that laboratories be able to continue their essential functions when incidents occur that disrupt normal operations. This webinar is designed as an introduction to the WLA COOP template, providing a basic overview of the COOP template contents and a demonstration on how to use the template’s fillable form: https://us-epa-wla-coop.eventbrite.com
Nevada Water and Emergency Services Sectors Coordination Workshop
March 13, 2018
Las Vegas, Nevada
The U.S. EPA Water Security Division and the Las Vegas Valley Water District will be hosting a Water and Emergency Services Sectors Coordination workshop on March 13, 2018. The free one-day workshop will include presentations from drinking water and wastewater utilities, as well as local, state and federal emergency response and law enforcement agencies. It will also include a tabletop exercise involving a possible intentional water contamination incident that impacts water and wastewater services, law enforcement, local emergency management, public health, and local hospitals. The workshop aims to increase coordination and communication between water utilities, emergency management, and law enforcement. It will also provide law enforcement personnel with a better understanding of water system infrastructure and operations.
The target audience is:
- Drinking water and wastewater utilities
- Local, state, and federal law enforcement departments and agencies
- Local, state, and federal emergency management agencies
To register, please visit: https://epa-nv-water-ess-workshop.eventbrite.com
Requesting Partners Input
Water and Healthcare/Public Health Workshop. The U.S. EPA Water Security Division plans to conduct a workshop in the western U.S. and is seeking interested stakeholders in the area. The one-day workshop will comprise presentations discussing cross-sector communication between the local area water utility and healthcare/public health entities. A water loss scenario in the afternoon provides the opportunity to discuss improvement to existing communication protocols between the water and health sectors. For more information, please contact Chrissy Dangel, 513-569-7821).
Water Sector Power Resilience Summit – To be held in September 2018
EPA plans to partner with water associations, state agencies, water utilities, energy providers, energy associations and other key partners to host a two-day Water Sector Power Resilience Summit. The objective of the summit is to discuss and advance the water sector’s preparedness for a long-duration, widespread power outage. We are still in the early planning stages, but plan to host an event for 150-250 people in the DC-area in September 2018. We are looking for volunteers to participate in a summit planning team that will help to develop the summit agenda, identify potential speakers, and share information about the summit to water sector stakeholders. We anticipate that volunteers would participate in approximately six one-hour teleconferences between January and September 2018 and spend several hours reviewing documents or completing action items from the teleconferences during that eight-month time period. For more information, please contact Lauren Wisniewski 202-564-2918.
