best practice protocols for response and recovery operations in contaminated water systems
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Best Practice Protocols For Response And Recovery Operations In
Contaminated Water Systems
Center for Water Resource StudiesWestern Kentucky University
Kentucky Water Resources Research InstituteUniversity of Kentucky
Center for Infrastructure ResearchUniversity of Louisville
Water Resources Research CenterUniversity of Missouri
KYPipe LLC
2. Problem Statement
2. Problem Statement
Decision-Support Tool to Guide Response & Recovery Operations
DHS - 2008-002-Water: “Decontamination Research”
Pre-event – Post-event planning robustness
Decontamination options
Flush - No-Flush?
Response command structure
regulatory stakeholders, local government, law enforcement, environmental concerns, etc.
Factors affecting approach selection
NIMS & ICS compatibility
2. Project Focus
Multi-Scale
Local and Regional
Resiliency data
Decision support
National
Extrapolated impact and exposure
Policy support
Multi-Faceted
Fact Sheets
Scale relevance
Expert System
Rules-based
Graphical DSS
Distribution system
Training Materials
Web-delivered
2. Project Organization
Principle InvestigatorAndrew ErnestWKU/CWRS
Project CoordinatorJana Fattic
WKU/CWRS
Hydraulic SystemsLindell Ormsbee
UK/KWRRI
Stakeholder EngagementThomas Rockaway
UofL/CIR
Background ResearchThomas Clevenger
UofM/WRRC
Utility OperationsRobert Reed
UofM/WRRC
3. Technical Review / Project Content
3. Technical - Project Components
DecisionSupport
Tool
BackgroundResearch
StakeholderEngagement
DecontaminationNetwork
Model
Rules-BasedDecisionSupport
Tool
TrainingEducationGuidance
3. Technical - Stakeholder Engagement
Technology Review
Gap assessment
Tabletop Exercises
Decontamination scenarios
Technology Deployment
Training
Technology validation
DHS
Utilities
Bio/Chemical specialists
USEPA
CDC
DHHS
State Health Departments
End users
NIMS
ICS
3. Technical - Prioritized List of Decontamination Issue Categories*
1. Large volumes
2. Practical solutions
3. Treatment works
4. Decision-making frameworks
5. Distribution and collection systems
6. Outreach and training
7. Utility communications
8. Cleanup levels
9. Treatment procedures
10.Agent fate and transport
11.Roles and responsibilities
12.Waivers or suspensions
13.Resources and assets
14.Laboratory analysis
15.Operator health and safety
16.Overarching
*2007 Critical Infrastructure Partnership Advisory Council (CIPAC), Water Sector Decontamination Working Group, Water Sector Coordinating Council (SCC), and Government Coordinating Council (GCC)
3. Technical - Decontamination Network Model If the system should be flushed,
using what hydrant(s)?
What will be the final disposition of the flushed water? Where will the water flow?
If the system should be flushed, can the “upstream” part of the system be used or does the system need to be isolated and flushing water pumped through a hydrant? If so, which hydrant?
If the system needs to be isolated, using what valve(s)?
What is the associated volume of water that will be isolated?
GIS Datasets
GIS Datasets
DecontaminationNetwork
Model (DNM)
DecontaminationNetwork
Model (DNM)
3. Technical – Export to KYPIPE (existing technology) for addressing additional questions
What additional system components (e.g. pumps, tanks) need to be changed in support of system flushing or isolation?
How can water be provided to those denied service due to the isolation?
What is the operational impact associated with the rest of the system?
What operational steps need to be taken to maintain normal conditions until decontamination is complete?
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DecontaminationNetwork
Model (DNM)
DecontaminationNetwork
Model (DNM)
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3. Technical - Rules-Based Decision Support Tool
Who should be notified? How? When?
What are the potential health impacts? Immediate? Short-term?
What are the environmental concerns?
When should decontamination be implemented?
What decontamination strategy should be taken?
What post event information needs to be provided to decision makers, utility customers, and the general public?
Fact Base(Working Memory)
Rule Base(Knowledge Base)
Explanation System
Knowledge BaseEditor
USER
INTERFACE
Inference Engine(Rule Engine)
Expert System Shell
3. Technical - Decision Support Tool
notify? flush?
isolate?
disposal?
where?
volume?
when?what else?
health impacts?
environmental?
3. Technical - Training, Education, and Guidance
Guidance Documents
Technology DeploymentWorkshops
Online Training and Professional Networking
4. Landscape Assessment
4. Landscape - Related Work Prioritized list of decontamination issue categories
CIPAC 2008 Critical Infrastructure Partnership Advisory Council, Water Sector Decontamination Working Group Final Report (August 2008)
Possible contaminants
Centers for Disease Control (CDC). 2003. Emergency Preparedness & Response. Atlanta, Georgia: Center for Disease Control.
States, S., et al. 2003. Utility-based Analytical Methods to Ensure Public Water Supply Security. Journal American Water Works Association 95(4): 103-115.
Use of traditional treatment techniques for treating non-traditional contaminants
Fox 2004 Water Treatment and Equipment Decontamination Techniques Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education Issue 129, Pages 18-21 2004
Planning, evaluating and implementing responses
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA). 2003 Overview of the Response Protocol Toolbox. EPA-817-D-03-007. Washington, DC: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA). 2008 Decontamination and Recovery Planning, Water and Wastewater Utility Case Study EPA-817-F-08-004 Washington, DC: U.S. Environmental Protection, Agency, Office of Water.
5. Collaborative Opportunities
5. Collaborative Opportunities
U.S. EPA National Homeland Security Research Center
American Water Works Association Research Foundation
U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center
Battelle Memorial Institute
State regulatory agencies (e.g. Kentucky Division of Water, Kentucky Division of Waste Management)
State emergency response agencies (e.g. Kentucky Division of Emergency Response)
Others (water utility representatives)
6. Commercialization Progress
6. Commercialization Plan Decontamination Network Model
Traditional licensing
Product-based deliverables - commercialization
KYPIPE LLC (www.kypipe.com) – project commercialization partner
Rules-Based Decision Support Tool
Spin-off company to market deliverables
Subscription-based business model
Open environment, PLLC (www.open-environment.com)
7. Summary and Conclusions
7. Summary and Conclusions
Project Start Date: March 31, 2010
• Project plan is complete with timelines and milestones • Team is in place • Roles and responsibilities are defined• Work has started
8. Contact Information
8. Contact - Western Kentucky University
Andrew N.S. Ernest, Ph.D., P.E., BCEE, D.WREAssociate Dean, Ogden College of Science and EngineeringDirector, Center for Water Resource StudiesWestern Kentucky [email protected]+1 (270) 745-2761
Jana R. Fattic, RSAssociate Director, Center for Water Resource StudiesWestern Kentucky [email protected]+1 (270) 745-8706
8. Contact - University of Kentucky
Lindell E. Ormsbee, Ph.D., P.E., P.H., D.WRE, F.ASCEDirector, Kentucky Water Resource Research InstituteUniversity of [email protected]+1 (859) 257-6329
8. Contact - University of Louisville
Thomas D. Rockaway, Ph.D., P.E.Director, Center for Infrastructure ResearchUniversity of [email protected]+1 (502) 582-3272
8. Contact - University of Missouri
Thomas E. Clevenger, Ph.D.Director, Missouri Water Resources Research CenterUniversity of [email protected]+1 (573) 882-7564
Robert E. Reed, Ph.D., P.E.Research Associate ProfessorUniversity of [email protected]+1 (573) 882-6162
9. Project Timelines
10. Budget Information
10. Budget - Financial Status
Contract date: March 31, 2010
Contract length: 24 months
Budget amount total: $1,546,264
Amount spent to date: $0
11. IP Status
11. Prior IP Project commercialization partner
KYPIPE, Pipe2008
Water distribution analysis software
Graphical user interface
GUI simplification
11. IP - Project
Not Ready for Disclosure