To increase WCIT's value as an emergency response resource, EPA has recently added an expert system module that guides users through all phases of response to a contamination incident. This interactive tool allows users to query for information on all aspects of responding to drinking water or ...
Despite the EPA’s willingness to provide training and technical support to help states and public water system organizations implement cybersecurity surveys, the move garnered opposition from both GOP state attorneys and trade groups. Republican state attorneys that were against the new prop...
“Summit’s negligence included the design, construction and operation of the Marmon Water Gathering System pipeline, as well as the negligent failure to find and stop the spill after learning of objective signs of a leak,” according to a factual admission signed by the company and filed in c...
After Daytona, the training team went to Detroit to teach an EPA SWMM course for water modelers on the Rouge River National Wet Weather Demonstration Project. “It was so well-liked that we had no choice but to branch out. We instructed at the University of Florida for about ...
The agreement included the company's commitment to make significant changes, including training managers and supervisors and all other employees on trenching and excavation safety; hiring a full-time safety and compliance manager; and purchasing new safety equipment to protect workers against cave-in...
Training · Employers must provide training to all employees—supervisory and non-supervisory. Heat Illness Prevention Plan · Establish, implement, and maintain an effective written Outdoor Heat Illness Prevention Plan that includes procedures for providing drinking water, shade, preventative rest periods...
Most EPA participatory science activities are conducted by external organizations with EPA supportsuch as funding, training, and technical advice on study design and data management. For many years, EPA has worked with partners on volunteer water monitoring. New participatory science activities are now...
Methods for the Determination of Organic Compounds in Drinking Water, Supplement III. August 1995. (NTIS / PB95-261616 or CD ROM or NEPIS / http://www.epa.gov/clariton/clhtml/pubtitleORD.html) Supplement to EPA 600/4-88-039 (NTIS / PB91-231486)...
Numeric results from ENTACT are expected to shed light on the severity of this issue (i.e., the amount of variability in semi-quantitative measures from one experiment to the next) and act as a large training set for future concentration prediction models. Ultimately, NTA data are intended ...
To further create a standardized approach to emergency response, President George W. Bush orders the development of a National Incident Management System (NIMS). Under NIMS, federal agencies, including EPA, are directed to provide Incident Command System (ICS) training to personnel. ICS is a mecha...