Quarterly Newsletter – EPA Water Security Division
Our EPA colleagues have several interactive opportunities that you may be interested in:
- Hurricane – Be Ready!
EPA has developed tools to help water utilities prepare for, respond to, and recover from hurricane-related impacts. Check out our incident action checklist and other free resources…and remember to heed watches and warnings issued by your local National Weather Service forecast office. Want to know more? Click here
- Water Sector Power and Black Sky Resilience Summit
On September 19, EPA is hosting a one-day Water Sector Power and Black Sky Resilience Summit in Herndon, VA to discuss and advance the water sector’s preparedness for a long duration, widespread power outage.
There will be presentations and discussions on black sky threats, generators, alternative power options, microgrids, critical interdependencies, and communications. The focus will be on some of the challenges and potential solutions to a long duration power outage. The target audience is drinking water and wastewater utilities, water and energy associations, electric utilities, and local, state, and federal government agencies. To participate in person Register Here If you are outside the DC metropolitan area and are interested in participating in a webcast of the event, please send an email to Lauren Wisniewski at wisniewski.lauren@epa.gov.
- Webinar – Customer Complaint Surveillance for Detecting Drinking Water Contamination
DATE: September 11, 2018
TIME: 1:00-2:00PM (eastern)
REGISTRATION: Register Here
This webinar will describe how water quality complaints from customers can be analyzed in real time to detect emerging water quality problems. It will describe methods and tools that can be used to analyze historical data to set thresholds that minimize the frequency of invalid alerts without compromising detection capabilities.
- Webinar – Public Health Surveillance for Detecting Drinking Water Contamination
DATE: October 9, 2018
TIME: 1:00-2:00PM (eastern)
REGISTRATION: Register Here
This webinar will discuss the role that public health partners can play in detecting and responding to drinking water contamination incidents. It will provide an overview of common public health partners as well as the types of surveillance they perform. Examples of the application of public health surveillance to monitor for water contamination incidents will be presented. There will also be a discussion of roles and responsibilities during a joint water utility/public health agency investigation of possible water contamination.
- Webinar – Response Planning for Distribution System Contamination Incidents
DATE: November 6, 2018
TIME: 1:00-2:00PM (eastern)
REGISTRATION: Register Here
This webinar will provide an overview of the response to a distribution system contamination incident and the steps utilities can take to prepare their own response procedure. It will cover roles and responsibilities when working with response partners. The webinar will also discuss possible response actions that can be implemented to minimize consequences, such as operational changes to reduce the spread of contaminated water and public notification to minimize customers’ exposure to contaminated water.
