Incident Command Tool for Protecting Drinking Water ICWater

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Incident Command Tool forProtecting Drinking
Water(ICWater)

• Doug Ryan
• USDA Forest Service
• Olympia, WA

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Purpose

• Make critical information rapidly available to
  incident commanders who would direct first
  responders.
• Protect the public during a chemical, biological,
  or radiological (CBR) attack or accidental spill
  to a drinking water source.

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Incident Commander Requirements

• Protect Human Health
• Threat Toxic Substance in Surface Water
• Rapidly assess worst case
• National Coverage

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Priority Questions

• Where is contaminant going?
• Are drinking water intakes on path?
• When will it get there?
• Will contaminant level pose risk?

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ICWater Partners

• USDA Forest Service
• Linkage to Incident Commanders
• Technical Support Working Group (TSWG)
• Compatibility with existing consequence
  assessment tools
• Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA)
• Training MOU with USFS
• Operation and maintenance
• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
• HAZMAT Sites
• Flow volume and velocity
• United States Geological Survey (USGS)
• National Hydrography Dataset (NHD)
• Time of travel dye studies
• Real-time stream flow
• Interstate Commission of the Potomac River Basin
• Comparisons with dye studies and other transport
  models

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Incident Command Tool (ICWater)Concept of
Operations
Local Incident Commanders
Strategic Decision Makers
Emergency Response Analyzer
ICWater (RiverSpill)

Stream Flow
Monitoring
Response Actions
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Integrated Capabilities

• Public Water Supply Intakes
• Real-time river network (NHD)
• Chem/Bio/Rad Agent Data
• Roads, bridges, dams, pipelines
• Hospitals, schools, fire stations etc.
• Potential sources of contaminants

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Downstream Analysis

• Where is contaminant going?
• Are drinking water intakes on path?
• When will it get there?
• In what concentration?

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Downstream Trace
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Downstream Analysis
Report
Animation
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Upstream Analysis

• Where could contaminant come from?
• What are potential contaminant sources?

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Upstream Trace
Report
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ICWater Summary

• Helps Incident Commanders assess and respond to
  spills
• Tracks water contaminants to drinking water
  intakes
• Capability chemical, biological radioactive
  substances
• Software and training available from DTRA

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