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Natural Disasters/Intentional Acts

It is important for any Public Water System (PWS) or to take a proactive approach and begin preparing for natural disasters and malevolent/intentional acts. Preparing for these events ahead of time can reduce personal anxiety and panic and can reduce the impact of these events on utility operations. The headers to the right contain guidance material on how to prepare for typical natural disasters and steps to address malevolent/intentional acts.Respnse Guidelines

  • Drought Response and Recovery Guide: Guide intending to help drinking water utilities become more resilient to drought. The Guide presents real-world examples, best practices and lessons learned in drought response and recovery.
  • Water Contamination Information Tool (WCIT): Database containing information on over 800 drinking water and wastewater contaminants, including pathogens, pesticides, and toxic industrial chemicals.
  • Containment and Disposal of Contaminated Water: Guide for PWS: Document providing information that may be useful in addressing containment, treatment, and disposal of water contaminated with a CBR agent within any part of a drinking water, wastewater, and/or stormwater system resulting from an “all hazards” contamination event.
  • The Baseline Threat Document: Helps CWS' identify malevolent acts to include in Risk Assessments and identify threat likelihood.

Response Protocol Toolbox

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