ICWater: Incident Command Tool for Drinking Water Protection

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ICWater Incident Command Tool for Drinking Water
Protection

• William B. Samuels, Rakesh Bahadur, Jonathan M.
  Pickus, David E. Amstutz1 and Douglas Ryan2
  
• 1Science Applications International Corporation
• McLean, VA
• 2US Forest Service
• Arlington, VA
• American Water Resources Association
• GIS and Water Resources III
• May 17-19, 2004
• Nashville, TN

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Current Situation

• Drinking water sources are vulnerable to
  terrorist attack
  
• Protection is expensive and takes time
• Steps needed to minimize consequences to the
  public of an attack
  
• Rapid, effective response to an attack can reduce
  public risk.

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Protecting the Public

• Incident Commanders direct first responders in
  emergencies
  
• Timely and accurate information vital for
  effective action
  
• Drinking water information widely scattered
• Not readily available in an emergency

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Incident Command Tool Needed

• Gather critical information
• Single, secure site
• Provide access for Incident Commanders
• Cover all 50 States
• Implement through consortium of Federal, State
  and Local agencies

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Why the Forest Service?

• Cadre of trained Incident Commanders
• Experience responding to wildland fires and other
  major disaster response
  
• National Forests important source of public
  drinking water
  

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Specifications

• Include the real-time RiverSpill model
• Include the National Hydrography Dataset (NHD)
• ARCGIS and ARCIMS
• Process data received from field sensors

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Specifications (cont.)

• Include the following databases
• sensor locations, dams, reservoirs,locks surface
  water bodies public drinking water intakes
  roads and railroads, population, critical
  facilities
• Stand-alone and Web-based
• Track human pathogens, toxic chemicals, and
  radioactive substances
  

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Phases

• Requirements
• Pilot
• Operational

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Summary of Technical Exchange Meetings and
Discussions

• Requirements Phase
• EPA Office of Groundwater and Drinking Water
• USGS Water Resources Division
• USDA- Agricultural Research Service
• USFS Engineering
• Defense Group Inc. CoBRA
• EPA Emergency Response Analyzer
• FEMA HAZUS
• DTRA - CATS
• CDC Medical Surveillance
• Pilot Phase
• NWS Stream Forecasting
• EPA Office of Water NHD Development Team
• DOT Office of Pipeline Safety
• EPA Law Enforcement

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Incident Command Tool (ICWater)
Local Incident Commanders
Strategic Decision Makers
Emergency Response Analyzer
ICWater (RiverSpill)
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ICWater Schema

• Outputs
• Maps, Reports, Tables compatible with
• CATS, HAZUS, EPA Situation Room,
• COBRA

Tier 1 Client Browser
http
Tier 2 Web/Map Server

• Tier 3 Database Server
• National Hydrography Dataset
• GIS layers sensors, dams, reservoirs,
• locks, transportation, topography,
• population, intakes

Database Server
Web and Map Server

• ICIT Business Logic
• RiverSpill
• Internet Map Server

External Inputs
USGS Real-Time Gages
Field Reports
Field Sensors
Medical Surveillance
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RiverSpill
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National Hydrography Dataset (NHD)

• USGS
• Available for NHDinGEO format
• EPA Office of Water
• making NHD available to the ICWater Project from
  their Reach Address Database (RAD)
  
• NHD-Indexed Public Water Supply Intakes
• Flow volume and Velocity attributes
• Development proceeding
• NHDinGEO data from USGS
• Hydrologic Region 5 from the RAD

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Status of Supporting Databases

• Public Water Supply Intakes
• http//oaspub.epa.gov/enviro/sdw_report.first_tabl
  e?report_id726187pwsidVA3550051stateVAsource
  Surface20water20population90683sys_num0
  
• USGS Stream gages
• 19,590 current and historical gages (7,160
  real-time)
  
• http//waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis
• Hydrologic Units (HUC) (Watershed Boundaries)
• Created a downstream/upstream HUC navigation
  table
  
• HAZMATS
• Toxic Chemical Release Inventory (TRI)
• http//oaspub.epa.gov/enviro/tris_control.tris_pri
  nt?tris_id11040CLLCR1403F
  
• Risk Management Plan Sites (RMP)
• Superfund Sites (CERCLIS)
• http//oaspub.epa.gov/enviro/cerclis_web.report?pg
  m_sys_idWY0000045138
  
• Hazardous Waste (RCRA)
• http//oaspub.epa.gov/enviro/fii_query_dtl.disp_pr
  ogram_facility?pgm_sys_id_inWYD981547706pgm_sys_
  acrnm_inRCRAINFO
  

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Status of Supporting Databases (continued)

• Mines
• Minerals Availability System (Bureau of Mines)
• Dams
• National Inventory of Dams (Corps of Engineers)
• http//crunch.tec.army.mil/nid/webpages/nid.cfm
• Dischargers
• Permits Compliance System (NPDES)
• http//oaspub.epa.gov/enviro/fii_query_dtl.disp_pr
  ogram_facility?pgm_sys_id_inSD0020036pgm_sys_acr
  nm_inPCS
  
• http//oaspub.epa.gov/enviro/pcs_det_reports.pcs_t
  st?npdesidSD0020036npvalue1npvalue2npvalue3
  npvalue4npvalue5npvalue6rvalue13npvalue7
  npvalue8npvalue10npvalue11npvalue12
• Reservoirs
• USGS Reservoir characteristics

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Status of Supporting Databases (continued)

• National Pipeline Mapping System
• USFS Roads
• ESRI Data
• Streets
• Railroads
• Federal Lands (includes USFS lands)
• Boundary files (state, county, zip,.)
• US Census Data (2000 population)
• Hospitals
• Schools

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ICWater Compatibility

• Stand Alone Compatibility
• HAZUS
• HAZUS Runs Within ArcGIS
• HAZUS-MH obtained and installed
• CoBRA
• CoBRA is a Hardened Computer Platform Running
  Windows OS. This Meets Required Platform for
  ICIT
  
• CoBRA software and API requested from vendor
• CATS
• CATS 6 Runs Within ArcGIS With Release in April
  2004
  
• CATS 6 being developed by SAIC
• EPA Emergency Analyzer
• more applicable to Web-based ICWater/RiverSpill

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ICWater Compatibility (continued)

• Web Based ICIT
• CoBRA EPA Emergency Analyzer
• These Systems Are Interested in RiverSpill as a
  Web Service
  
• Web Services Represent a Way for External Clients
  to Use the Same API that ICIT Clients Use, Just
  Remotely
  
• CATS HAZUS
• These systems are interested in the results from
  running in a browser. Shapefiles work to some
  extent
  
• CATS wants Model Output Specification compliant
  XML output

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ICWater Partners

• US Forest Service
• Linkage to Incident Commanders
• TSWG
• Compatibility with existing consequence
  assessment tools
  
• DTRA
• Training MOU with USFS
• Operation and maintenance
• EPA
• NHD
• Model validation
• USGS
• Comparisons with dye studies
• Location of gages and monitoring stations
• Interstate Commission of the Potomac River Basin
• Comparisons with dye studies and other transport
  models
  

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RiverSpill Skill AssessmentWillamette River
Basin Study Area
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ERF-1 and NHD

• Enhanced Reach File (ERF1)
• 1500,000-scale stream network
• 68,000 total reaches
• 16,000 named rivers
• National scale, mean flow and velocity
  information
  
• National Hydrography Dataset
• 1100,000 scale
• 3 million plus reaches
• Mean flow and velocity attributes in development
• Pilot study
• covering three hydrologic units
• NHD was populated with mean flow and velocity
  values

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• ERF1 (1 segment)
• Mean Flow 506.72 cfs
• Mean Velocity 1.54 fps
• NHD (55 segments)
• Mean Flow 392 cfs
• (range 324 - 443)
• Mean Velocity 1.2 fps
• (range 1.15 - 1.23)
• USGS Real-Time gages
• Olentangy River at Delaware, OH
• Mean Flow 306 cfs
• Olentangy River at Worthington, OH
• Mean flow 371 cfs

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Summary

• Water sources are vulnerable
• Preparedness will reduce consequences to the
  public of an attack.
  
• Incident Commanders need timely information to
  act effectively.
  
• Tool will provide ICs critical information when
  they need it.
  

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Program Contacts

• Doug Ryan
• USFS, [phone], dryan01_at_fs.fed.us
• Perry Pederson
• TSWG, [phone], pedersonp_at_tswg.gov
• Kevin McCormack
• USEPA, [phone], mccormack.kevin_at_epa,gov

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Technical Contacts

• William B. Samuels, Ph.D
• SAIC, [phone], william.b.samuels_at_saic.com
• Rakesh Bahadur, Ph.D
• SAIC [phone], rakesh.bahadur_at_saic.com
• Project Website
• http//eh2o.saic.com/icit