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To assist in emergency preparedness for a biological agent terrorist attack or accidental pathogen release, potential contaminant levels and migration pathways of spores spread by urban stormwater were evaluated using a Stormwater Management Model (SWMM) of U.S. Coast Guard Base ...

Presentation and sampling procedure handouts to be used during sampler virtual training for AnCOR WAD demonstration. As part of the AnCOR project, a wide area demonstration (WAD) of decontamination of USCG assets in an urban area with a Bacillus anthracis surrogate will take plac...

This presentation provides an overview of the Analysis for Coastal Operational Resiliency (AnCOR) program, an interagency effort to assess and improve capabilities and strategic guidelines to prepare the U.S. for a wide-area release of a biological agent, including mitigating imp...

Outdoor contamination incidents such as those following non-spore-forming zoonotics (Burkholderia, tularemia, FAD, etc) may necessitate decontamination. Currently, COTS disinfectants have been assessed for a limited number of indoor and outdoor (concrete) materials. Previous inci...

This technical brief is a summary of US EPA research publications providing input to solving the technical challenges involved with remediating a large urban area following a contamination incident involving spores of B. anthracis, the causative biological agent for anthrax disea...

This study was conducted to help the USCG recover rapidly following a biological contamination incident and return assets to duty. Determination of asset contamination status is necessary to make decisions regarding asset safety and deployability. The outcome of the study describ...

This report focuses on the evaluation of spore recovery using three different methods applied to candidate solid waste streams likely to be generated during the decontamination and restoration of a biological incident at a United States Coast Guard (USCG) station. Candidate solid...

Ultraviolet-C (UVC) radiation has long been used to disinfect air, water, and surfaces. The COVID-19 pandemic has recently raised interest in using UVC devices as an alternative approach for disinfecting surfaces and materials, as an increasing number of UVC devices come to marke...

Wide-area remediation following a B. anthracis (Ba) spore release presents many issues including balancing the limited resources available with the need to characterize contamination, conduct decontamination, and management of post-decontamination waste. Capabilities and an opera...

A large-scale release of a chemical, radiochemical, or biological (CBR) agent can result in wide-area contamination and would require significant time and resources for recovery. Several Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Homeland Security Research Program (HSRP) decision supp...

This publication will provide data useful for predicting the efficacy of wash-down methods in an outdoor urban environment. Wash-down methods may be deployed to reduce contaminant concentrations on buildings, sidewalks, vegetation, and roadways. Understanding the effectiveness of...

Over the last year, ORD had been engaging with partners and planning future research.&nbsp;Historically, HSRP water decontamination research has focused on &ldquo;big&rdquo; utility infrastructure, but contamination events affect home and building plumbing too. Home and building ...

This document describes procedures for collecting and concentrating water samples in a field setting for waterborne pathogen and biothreat agent detection. The methods describe water sampling by concentrating large volumes of water in the field via dead-end ultrafiltration (DEUF)...

This is a protocol for detection of ricin biotoxin in environmental samples. It includes two sensitive and specific analytical methods including the ElectroChemiLuminescence-Based Immunoassay (ECL-IA) and the Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA), also known as the Hand-Held ...

Data from soil decontamination testing with Burkholderia pseudomallei

Maxent models were run using the B. anthracis presence data and/or the animal outbreak presence data. Models run using the animal outbreak data alone utilized two scales: the Outbreak State scale which included only states reporting animal anthrax outbreaks from 2001-2013 and the...

The Analysis for Coastal Operational Resiliency (AnCOR) program is an interagency collaboration between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the United States Coast Guard (USCG). The overall purpose of this multi-agency pr...

Clean up following the wide-area release of a persistent biological agent has the potential to generate significant waste. Waste containing residual levels of biological contaminants may require off-site shipment under the U.S. Department of Transportation&rsquo;s solid waste reg...

Large-scale biological incidents at indoor, outdoor, and underground areas have the potential to extensively contaminate these sites, requiring extensive time, money, and resources to successfully decontaminate and allow these areas to be utilized again. Contaminated sites must b...

This report focused on researching United States Coast Guard (USCG) stormwater systems to summarize differences in meteorological/terrain features and operations of USCG assets by location. This information was used to develop a modeling framework that identified which hydrodynam...

AnCOR is an interagency collaborative effort, between US EPA, DHS, and US Coast Guard, with the objective of building biological incident response capabilities

States and localities are looking for ways to integrate climate resilience and environmental justice into how they prepare, respond, mitigate, and recover from disasters. These efforts require effective and inclusive engagement with many broad constituencies. The research present...

This presentation summarizes the results of lab studies on the inactivation of UVC light against SARS-CoV-2 and two surrogate viruses as well as results from a field study in collaboration with LA Metro that measured UVC doses at various locations in a metro car outfitted with UV...

This document provides step-by-step instructions for the use of impingers, impacters and filters to collect samples from air potentially contaminated with pathogens. It is intended to be used in conjunction with the analytical methods listed in U.S. Environmental Protection Agenc...

This document provides step-by-step instructions for the use of vacuum filter cassettes to collect samples from surfaces potentially contaminated with pathogens. It is intended to be used in conjunction with the analytical methods listed in U.S. Environmental Protection Agency&rs...