Development and application of the incident command tool for drinking water protection

Samuels, William B.; Bahadur, Rakesh; Ziemniak, Christopher; Amstutz, David E.

doi:10.1111/wej.12097

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“…The National Flood Interoperability Experiment (NFIE) (https://www.cuahsi.org/nfie), a federal—academic—private sector collaboration, aims to provide flood forecasts at a higher spatial resolution than is currently available. The Incident Command Tool for Drinking Water (ICWater) (https://www.leidos.com/products/marine/icwater) provides real‐time tracking and scenario evaluation for contaminant spill and transport in river systems, with explicit links to sensitive infrastructure like drinking water intakes (Samuels et al ., ). To communicate about drought and water use in the Colorado River Basin, an interactive data visualization (http://doi.gov/water/owdi.cr.drought) was developed to integrate disparate water and drought datasets into a single application.…”

Section: Results: Owdi Applicationsmentioning

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An Analysis of Water Data Systems to Inform the Open Water Data Initiative

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J American Water Resour Assoc

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Improving access to data and fostering open exchange of water information is foundational to solving water resources issues. In this vein, the Department of the Interior's Assistant Secretary for Water and Science put forward the charge to undertake an Open Water Data Initiative (OWDI) that would prioritize and accelerate work toward better water data infrastructure. The goal of the OWDI is to build out the Open Water Web (OWW). We therefore considered the OWW in terms of four conceptual functions: water data cataloging, water data as a service, enriching water data, and community for water data. To describe the current state of the OWW and identify areas needing improvement, we conducted an analysis of existing systems using a standard model for describing distributed systems and their business requirements. Our analysis considered three OWDI-focused use cases-flooding, drought, and contaminant transport-and then examined the landscape of other existing applications that support the Open Water Web. The analysis, which includes a discussion of observed successful practices of cataloging, serving, enriching, and building community around water resources data, demonstrates that we have made significant progress toward the needed infrastructure, although challenges remain. The further development of the OWW can be greatly informed by the interpretation and findings of our analysis.(KEY TERMS: data management; public participation; hydrologic cycle; geospatial analysis; open data; network linked asset.)

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Section: Results: Owdi Applicationsmentioning

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An Analysis of Water Data Systems to Inform the Open Water Data Initiative

Blodgett

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J American Water Resour Assoc

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“…The existing hydrologic framework of the Nation’s rivers and streams (National Hydrography Dataset Plus Version 2; McKay et al, 2012 ) provides a way to connect upstream and downstream areas. Several approaches have used this framework to connect upstream landscape characteristics ( Hill et al, 2016 ) or contaminant sources ( Samuels et al, 2014 ) with downstream conditions. Here the framework connected upstream flood attenuating wetlands to people that benefit in downstream flood-prone areas.…”

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A Geospatial Assessment of Flood Vulnerability Reduction by Freshwater Wetlands–A Benefit Indicators Approach

Bousquin

Hychka

2019

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Flooding is among the most common and costly natural disasters in the United States. Flood impacts have been on the rise as flood mitigating habitats are lost, development places more people and infrastructure potentially at risk, and changing rainfall results in altered flood frequency. Across the nation, communities are recognizing the value of flood mitigating habitats and employing green infrastructure alternatives, including restoring some of those ecosystems, as a way to increase resilience. However, communities may under value green infrastructure, because they do not recognize the current benefits of risk reduction they receive from existing ecosystems or the potential benefits they could receive through restoration. Freshwater wetlands have long been recognized as one of the ecosystems that can reduce flood damages by attenuating surface water. Small-scale community studies can capture the flood-reduction benefits from existing or potentially restored wetlands. However, scalability and transferability are limits for these high resolution and data intensive studies. This paper details the development of a nationally consistent dataset and a set of high-resolution indicators characterizing where people benefit from reduced flood risk through existing wetlands. We demonstrate how this dataset can be used at different scales (regional or local) to rapidly assess flood-reduction benefits. At a local scale we use other national scale indicators (CRSI, SoVI) to gauge community resilience and recoverability to choose Harris County, Texas as our focus. Analysis of the Gulf Coast region and Harris County, Texas identifies communities with both wetland restoration potential and the greatest flood-prone population that could benefit from that restoration. We show how maps of these indicators can be used to set wetland protection and restoration priorities.

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“…Fan et al [18] simulated the diffusion process of pollution due to a fluorescein sodium point source in the basin of the Paraiba do Sul River under many scenes. Samuels et al [19] performed simulation of the transfer process of pollutants in rivers.…”

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Introduction - Emergency Operation Technologies for Sudden Water Pollution Accidents

Lei¹,

Zheng²,

Kong³

2018

Emergency Operation Technologies for Sudden Water Pollution Accidents in the Middle Route of South-to-North Water Diversion Pro

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Water is an important basic resource for human survival, social and economic development, and ecological environment stability [1]. With population growth, economic development, and climate change, many countries and regions face water shortage due to the uneven spatial-temporal distribution of water resources [2, 3]. Shortage of water resources will affect food safety, economic development, and ecological environment health. This is one of the major difficulties that the world has to face in the future and a major obstacle to realize sustainable development [4, 5]. It is an important way to solve the crisis of water resources in some areas by carrying out water diversion projects to transfer water from the areas where water is abundant to the places lacking of water [6]. 1.1 Main long-distance water diversion projects in the world It has been a long history of building water diversion projects by all the countries around the world. The earliest project can be traced back to 2400 BC in the ancient Egypt, transferring the water of the Nile River to irrigate the southern Ethiopia plateau. With the development of social economy, the distance, range, transferable water amount, benefit, construction, and management levels of water diversion projects are gradually improved [7]. Until now, 350 long-distance water diversion projects have been built in at least 39 countries [8]. The following are some typical ones in the world. 1.1.1 California north-to-south water diversion project (America) The main work of this Project Phase I was completed in 1973, successfully providing industrial and living water for 17 million people centering around Los Angeles. The main canal is 1138 km long in total, with a multi-year average water diversion amount of 5.2 billion m 3 and a water diversion flow of 284 m 3 /s.

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Development and application of the incident command tool for drinking water protection

Cited by 14 publications

References 10 publications

An Analysis of Water Data Systems to Inform the Open Water Data Initiative

An Analysis of Water Data Systems to Inform the Open Water Data Initiative

A Geospatial Assessment of Flood Vulnerability Reduction by Freshwater Wetlands–A Benefit Indicators Approach

Introduction - Emergency Operation Technologies for Sudden Water Pollution Accidents

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