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          TOP TEN  LIST
       Emergency Preparedness
              and Security
    for Small Ground Water Su ppliers
              (or update) an emergency response
     plan.  Make sure all employees help to create
     it and receive training on trie plan;

     POSt updated emergency 24-hour numbers
     at your facilities in highly visible areas
     (pumphouse door, vehicles, office) and give
     them  to key personnel and local i
     officials;
                              response
Get fO klKHV your local police and ask them
to add your facilities to their routine rounds.
Practice emergency response procedures with
local police, emergency response and  public
health officials;

Fence and  lOClC  your drinking  water
facilities and vulnerable areas (e.g. wellhead.
hydrants,  manholes, pumphouse, and
storage tanks);

LOCk all entry gates and doors and set
alarms to indicate illegal entry.  Do not leave
keys in equipment or vehicles at any time;

Install gOOd lighting around your
pumphouse, treatmenTfacility and parking lot;

Identify existing and alternate water
supplies and maximize use of backflow
prevention devices and interconnections;

Use your  Source  Water Assessment
information to work with any businesses and
homeowners that are listed  as  potential
sources  of contamination and  lessen their
threat to your source;

LOCfc monitoring wells to prevent vandals
or terrorists from pouring contaminants
directly into ground water near your source.
Prevent pouring or siphoning contaminants
through vent pipes by moving them inside the
pumphouse or treatment pfant.  If that isn't
possible, fence or screen them; and

to case of an emergency, first can -91 r
then follow your emergency response plan.

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   Drinking Water Security
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  For Further Informotion about Security and
  Emergency Preparedness (non-emergency):
  EPA New England Office
  Kevin Reiliy
  reilly.kevrn@epa.gov
  (617)918-1694

  Connecticut Deportment of
  Public Health
  Or Gerald (won
  geraldiwan@po.state.ct.us
  (860) 509-7333

  Maine Department of
  Human Services
  Andy Toiman
  Andrews.LToJmoft@state.me.us
  (207) 287-61%

  Massachusetts Department of
  Environmental Protection
  Paul Nimon
  paul.nimafl@state.ma.us
  (617) 556-1166
New Hampshire Department
of Environmental Services
David Reid
dreid@des.stote.nh.us
(603) 271-3431

Rhode Island Department
of Health
June Swallow
JuneS@doh.stote.ri.us
(401) 222-6867
Elizabeth Hunt
elizh@dec.anr.state.Yt.us
(802) 241-3409

dEPA
New England
             visit our web s'te at
   http://www.epa.gov/ne/eco/drinkwater/

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