Emergency Preparedness Modeling for Distribution Systems
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Fee per person: $75-member, $120-nonmember
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Objectives
- Identify ways to use hydraulic models to plan for supply outages (WTP and/or interconnection/tie-in shutdowns).
- Understand the purpose of water distribution system storage, how it can be leveraged for emergency preparedness, and how it can be evaluated with hydraulic models.
- Learn how to quantify isolation valve criticality in water distribution systems and use it to prioritize projects for risk and resilience.
- Identify ways and methods to use hydraulic models to trace and respond to water quality contamination in distribution systems.
Expert Panel
Moderated by: Melissa Brunger, Principal / Vice President, Freese and Nichols, Inc.
Meg Roberts, Distribution Systems Services Leader, Hazen and Sawyer, P.C.
Saša Tomić PhD, PE, Digital Water Lead, Burns & McDonnell Engineering Co. Inc.
Tom Walski, Industry Advisor, Bentley Systems
Description
Water utilities are faced with tough decisions about how to operate, maintain, and improve their water distribution systems. This webinar will focus on helping utilities make informed decisions using hydraulic modeling to quantify and mitigate risks common to distribution systems.
The United States drinking water infrastructure system is made up of over 2.2 million miles of underground pipes. They represent the vast majority of physical infrastructure for water suppliers. Distribution system wear and tear can pose intermittent or persistent health and safety risks, as can unforeseen events and other emergency conditions. America's Water Infrastructure Act (AWIA) of 2018 served as a catalyst for utilities to evaluate their resilience to risk and to create or update emergency response plans for distribution systems. From this effort, many utilities discovered the criticality of their water infrastructure and have been taking steps to evaluate the risk and strengthen emergency preparedness.
Several major areas of emergency preparedness in distribution systems will be covered in this session. Supply outages, both planned and unplanned, distribution system storage, valve criticality, and distribution system contamination will each be discussed with respect to using hydraulic models for emergency preparedness and response.
The presenters will cover the following topics:
- Introduction and The Challenge of Supply Outages
- Best Practices for Analyzing Distribution System Contamination
- Interaction of the System Storage and Resilience
- Evaluating Adequacy of Valves for Resilience
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