^ •»—* ^ 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. ------- Drinking Water Security and Emergency Preparedness Security and emergency rei planning * important part I its ha.- . \ national pn< • ns urge ••r supp1 • '. .'. ow • u id«>n: . m security and emergency pr» Her- 10 things that you can do to ect your water system I taminai • h.irm 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/ ------- |