Course Details
Course Details
Course ID
7629
Course Name
Protecting Drinking Water Supplies in the Monocacy-Catoctin Watershed Table Top Exercise and Workshop
Contact Hours
3.5
Approved Industry
Drinking Water
Partner Name
Horsley Witten Group, Inc.
Primary Contact
William Keefer
wkeefer@horsleywitten.com
5088336600 Ext.
Website
Description
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is hosting a free one-day workshop to assist drinking water suppliers, industry owners (e.g., aboveground storage tank owners), local emergency responders, and state and federal agencies to better prepare for a spill to a river that supplies drinking water. The workshop includes representatives from water utilities along with their response partners and features a tabletop exercise which is focused on a hypothetical water quality incident in Marsh Creek in the Monocacy-Catoctin watershed. This workshop series is an ongoing EPA initiative to help utilities, communities and states discuss and improve source water protection.
Course Level
Basic thru Advanced
Course Content
The course includes a tabletop exercise that includes small group discussions that involve all participants and allow them to discuss the response to spill into a water source that provides drinking water. The scenario is based on a real creek and watershed that is in Pennsylvania, Maryland and West Virginia. Subject matter experts will provide presentations that promote the importance of not only coordination, but also water utilities being aware of the threats in their watershed.
Target Audience
The target audience is Pennsylvania water operators, along with their counterparts in Maryland and West Virginia. They will be joined by emergency management representatives, local/state agency representatives and private industry from all three states.
Training Format
Classroom