Area-Wide Optimization Program (AWOP)

AWOP Executive Summary

This PDF flyer provides a high-level summary of the area-wide optimization program.

What is AWOP?

This article provides an overview of what the area-wide optimization program is about.  The article  “Treatment Optimization — Providing More Effective Multiple-barrier Protection,” was published in Journal AWWA, Vol. 99, No. 12 (December 2007), by the American Water Works Association.  Reprinted by permission. Copyright © 2007, American Water Works Association.

AWOP Overview Presentation

This PowerPoint presentation was given at the first multi-state AWOP Meeting in Region 3.  The presentation provides an overview of the AWOP process and the first steps for a new multi-state program.

Why Optimize Presentation

This presentation describes the benefits of optimization, particularly the public health challenges associated with pathogens in drinking water, risk reduction associated with optimization, optimization goals and the basis for these goals.

AWOP Components

The AWOP Program is broken down into 3 components or phases.  Although state programs tend to move through in a progression from status to maintenance, in a mature AWOP, activities are occurring under all three components as various aspects of the program are updated and refined.

• Status
• Targeted Performance Improvement (TPI)
• Maintenance