EPA Expands Tabletops on Labs and Contamination Incidents
EPA is expanding its series of free tabletop exercise webcasts that examine the coordination of laboratory services in response to a drinking water contamination incident. The scenario-based exercise provides state and local governments, utilities, emergency responders, and laboratory personnel with the opportunity to answer questions based on their real-life experiences and knowledge of emergency response practices and procedures contained in the Water Laboratory Alliance Response Plan (WLA-RP). Exercise participants will receive first-hand experience with Water Sector emergency response “best practices” and Water Security tools and resources. Because of the popularity of these exercises, seven additional events have been added:
2014 Exercises 2015 Exercises
September 17 10:00AM-Noon (ET) January 14 1:00-3:00PM (ET)
October 8 1:00-3:00PM (ET) February 18 10:00AM-Noon (ET)
November 5 10:00AM-Noon (ET) March 11 1:00-3:00PM (ET)
April 15 10:00AM-Noon (ET)
Registration: To register for an exercise and select the date of your choice, please visit: http://water.epa.gov/infrastructure/watersecurity/wla/training.cfm.
Over 200 people participated in the first six webcasts of this series conducted between March and July of 2014. The following is some of the feedback that has been received.
- State Drinking Water Agency Participant: “We like the way that the exercise was conducted. …it was interactive, we could see the responses, and it was the perfect length of time.”
- Water Utility Participant: “We learned a great deal during the course of this scenario. The step-by-step question and answer process was very helpful.”
- Laboratory Participant: “Very good exercise. A fun way to spend a couple hours!”
For more information about the exercise, please see the attached flyer.
ATTACHMENT – Perfect Storm TTX flyer_2014_2015_07312014
