Greg Carter

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GoA Partnership Symposium
Greg Carter
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Format

• AENV role in emergency management
• AENV role in the field
• Deployable resources
• Activation Criteria
• Criteria for success

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AENVs Role in EM

• Risk management and mitigation
• Outreach
• Approvals
• Technical advice
• Incident and exercise planning
• Incident response
• Staff and resource deployment
• Technical expertise
• Remediation

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ASERTs Roles

• Risk management for EM
• Assist in exercise planning and operational
  readiness
• Coordinate AENV response
• Facilitate engagement of non-AENV partners
• Coordinate resource requirements
• Coordinate information management
• Coordinate handover to Regions

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AENV Emergency Response Structure

• Who
• Regional Primaries (apprx 35)
• AENV Specialists
• MAML and Air Monitoring Tm
• Surface Water Monitoring Tm
• Water Management Ops
• Flow Forecasting,
• River Engineering
• Dam Safety
• AENV Communications Team
• ASERT
• Where
• 3 Regions / 6 Districts / 20 offices

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LEVEL 3 RESPONSE
GEOC Representatives from GOA
Other Govt EOCs

AENV EOC
Support
If this position is located in the RPs ICP, then
the 2nd ERO/Primary communicates directly with
Duty Officer and this position is removed from
the structure.
Site Management can be defined as the Incident
Command Post removed from the Field Operations
Site Management
Field Operations
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Deployable Resources

• Staff
• Specialists in water, air, soil, ER
• Boats (sampling)
• Snowmobiles, ATVs
• Mobile Air Monitoring Lab
• Air Monitoring Units (Edm and Calg Fire)
• Mobile EOCs
• Spill response trailers

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Activation Criteria

• Natural disaster causing adverse effect
• Industrial ERP
• DG release greater than 200 litres
• Release into a water body
• Gas well blow-out or any other uncontrolled air
  releases
• Event that could impact air quality
• Fatality as a result of an enviro incident
• Incident that could impact a major transportation
  route

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Criteria for Success

• Successful containment
• Successful cleanup
• Successful remediation
• Achieved via successful response and coordination

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Conclusion

• AENV has an integrated response team
• Array of technical specialists
• A coordinating agency to coordinate AENV actions,
  and external with other organisations

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Summary Comments Questions
Questions?
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Regional Responsibilities

• Response
• Begin staff-up preparations in case there is a
  need to an actual event
• Establish a Regional flood response operations
  point of contact
• Coordinate AENV activity with ASERT and WMO
• Provide assistance and advice to public and
  industrial operations in order to assist them in
  making quick decisions during an event
• Provide advice, assistance and expertise to
  drinking water and waste water facilities
• Provide advice, assistance and expertise to
  place-based industries on flood water control
  issues
• Provide advice, assistance and expertise to local
  authorieis on flood water issues as required
• Provide resources to other Regions, in a
  protracted flood event
• May assist River Engineering in high water mark
  identification

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Regional Responsibilities

• Recovery
• Work with local authorities and the public to
  mitigate future flooding
• Facilitate completion of approvals required to
  complete flood damage restorations
• Authorize post flood works within a water body
  where deemed necessary
• Participate in the post-incident assessment
  process
• Provide expertise to local authorities on
  approval and licensing issues related to flood
  recovery
• Provide post event hydrological analysis
  expertise as required

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Regional Responsibilities

• Mitigation/Prevention
• Participate in educational awareness on flood
  mitigation within region
• Have placed-based knowledge of communities in
  which they live and work
• Identify potential high risk areas or activities
  within the Region and establish contacts with
  owners of the identified hazards