Security and Emergency Planning for Water and Wastewater Utilities

Security and Emergency Planning for Water and Wastewater Utilities
Author: Stanley States
Publisher: American Water Works Association
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2011-01-12
Genre: Sewage disposal plants
ISBN: 1613001045

Water and wastewater utility managers will find expert guidance on all issues regarding security and emergency preparedness and response in this book. The terrorist attacks on the US of Sept. 11, 2001, as well as destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, brought heightened concern over the security and emergency preparedness of America's water supply infrastructure--concerns which remain high to this day.

Emergency Planning Guide for Utilities, Second Edition

Emergency Planning Guide for Utilities, Second Edition
Author: Samuel Mullen
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2013-01-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1466504854

An increase in major natural disasters—and the growing number of damaging events involving gas, electric, water, and other utilities—has led to heightened concerns about utility operations and public safety. Due to today's complex, compliance-based environment, utility managers and planners often find it difficult to plan for the action needed to help ensure organization-wide resilience and meet consumer expectations during these incidents. Emergency Planning Guide for Utilities, Second Edition offers a working guide that presents new and field-tested approaches to plan development, training, exercising, and emergency program management. The book will help utility planners, trainers, and responders—as well as their vendors and suppliers—to more effectively prepare for damaging events and improve the level of the utility’s resilience. It also focuses on planning needed in the National Incident Management System and ICS environment that many utilities are embracing going forward. In doing so, utilities will be able to improve the customer experience while reducing the impact that damaging events have on the utility’s infrastructure, people, and resources.

M19 Emergency Planning for Water Utilities, Fourth Edition

M19 Emergency Planning for Water Utilities, Fourth Edition
Author:
Publisher: American Water Works Association
Total Pages: 116
Release: 1984
Genre:
ISBN: 1613001738

Annotation This manual presents principles, practices, and guidelines which deal with natural disasters, accidents, or intentional acts that have the potential to disrupt water services. Discussions include applications of knowledge and experience about specific systems, determination of vulnerable components of the system, and offers of strategies for improvement of the deficiencies, including alternate policies.

Utility Management

Utility Management
Author: Office of Water Programs
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9781884701498

This manual is designed to train agency managers to use good business practices in managing a water or wastewater utility. It offers detailed information regarding all major responsibilities of a utility manager's key job elements and provides practical guidelines for policies and procedures. The manual explains how to asses the financial strength and stability of a utility, principles of budgeting, and how to fund capital improvements.

Emergency Planning for Water Utilities

Emergency Planning for Water Utilities
Author:
Publisher: American Water Works Association
Total Pages: 149
Release: 2001
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1583211357

This manual presents principles, practices, and guidelines which deal with natural disasters, accidents, or intentional acts that have the potential to disrupt water services. Discussions include applications of knowledge and experience about specific systems, determination of vulnerable components of the system, and offers of strategies for improvement of the deficiencies, including alternate policies.

On-site Generation of Hypochlorite

On-site Generation of Hypochlorite
Author: American Water Works Association
Publisher:
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2014-10
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9781625760265

As more water systems turn to safer alternatives to chlorine gas, the generation of hypochlorite on site has become increasingly common. M65, On-Site Generation of Hypochlorite, presents the principles of on-site generation (OSG), the differences between low-strength and high-strength OSG systems, and the subsequent impact each of these systems has on design, construction, and maintenance for water and wastewater utilities. M65 provides operators and engineering staff with a basic understanding of how to design and install both low- and high-strength OSG systems, how they work, and how they compare with other popular forms of chlorine currently on the market. A cost analysis and an examination of how OSG affects disinfection by-product formation are also included. This manual should help operators, planners, management, and engineers improve their decision-making processes about OSG systems using a holistic risk management approach that considers not only triple-bottom-line approaches but also the specific regional situation when choosing a chlorination system.

Principles of Emergency Planning and Management

Principles of Emergency Planning and Management
Author: David E. Alexander
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2014-10-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1780465297

David Alexander provides a concise yet comprehensive and systematic primer on how to prepare for a disaster. The book introduces the methods, procedures, protocols and strategies of emergency planning.