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EPA webinar: How a Multi-Year Training and Exercise (T&E) Plan Can Help You

Posted Mon, 2012/08/20 - 9:54am by RCAP

This brief webinar will help you improve your emergency preparedness.

WHO: Drinking water and wastewater utilities interested in learning how to develop a training and exercise plan and how its implementation can help improve their organizations’ emergency preparedness.

WHAT: A webinar that provides information on steps to take when developing a multi-year training and exercise plan and lessons learned from DC Water, which has developed its own plan.

Two new training webinars on EPA's abletop Exercise Tool for Water Systems

Posted Wed, 2012/04/25 - 9:34am by RCAP

EPA has uploaded two training webinars on the Tabletop Exercise Tool for Water Systems: Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Climate Resiliency (TTX Tool) to EPA’s website ). The TTX Tool assists in planning, designing, conducting, and evaluating a tabletop exercise on 15 all-hazards scenarios.

“Coordination of the Water Sector and Emergency Services Sectors: An Important Step to Better Response” document released

Posted Wed, 2012/04/11 - 5:09pm by RCAP

EPA has released a new document, “Coordination of the Water Sector and Emergency Services Sectors: An Important Step to Better Response,” which  describes the mutually beneficial relationship of the water sector and emergency-services sector and provides examples on how to improve coordination between water utilities and local emergency-management agencies.