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The Equitable Resilience Builder (ERB) is a newly released tool to support community resilience planning. ERB is a downloadable application that supports communities in strengthening resilience to disasters and climate change. It walks a core team of users through a guided proces...

The purpose of this work is to provide data and information to refine existing guidance about how to flush per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from firefighting systems, specifically hangar systems and Aircraft Rescue and Firefighting (ARFF) vehicles. It is relevant to the...

Radioactive fallout could have debilitating effects on drinking water and wastewater systems. At least some drinking water system operators have plans to mitigate the effects of a contaminated water source, but most, if not all, wastewater operators have no such plans.  Both...

Legionella pneumophila (Lp) is an opportunistic drinking water pathogen that can cause infections through the inhalation of Lp-containing aerosols. Lp can occur in premise plumbing systems as these systems often have low disinfection residual, high surface area-to-volume ratios, ...

The threat of cascading and compounding disasters in low-income and underrepresented communities with hazardous and polluting sites makes urgent the need to build resilience. The Equitable Resilience Builder (ERB) is a new tool designed for situations where capacity and resources...

Report on the Wide Area Demonstration (WAD) under the Analysis for Coastal Operational Resiliency (AnCOR) project. The AnCOR WAD was conducted from May 2 through May 27, 2022. The test venue was located at Fort A.P. Hill (FAPH), Bowling Green, VA. All work will was conducted at F...

Drinking water storage tanks serve several important functions, which include but are not limited to providing an adequate water supply in the case of firefighting emergencies, power outages, water main breaks, or other system failures. The water level elevation in storage tanks ...

The purpose of this research was to determine the viability of installing low-cost storm sewer retrofit devices in multiple locations within an urban watershed.  A major component of this was the necessity for designing, fabricating, and operation of such retrofits which are not ...

This is a power point presentation that summarizes the potential for phototoxicity of crude and refined oils. The presentation will cover the phototoxic components of oil, mechanisms of petroleum phototoxicity, and the environmental and biological modulation of phototoxicity.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Homeland Security Research Program (HSRP) aims to increase United States’ capabilities to prepare for and respond to releases of oil and hazardous substances into the environment. HSRP’s inn...

The U.S. EPA’s Homeland Security Research Program (HSRP) is charged with protecting human health and the environment from accidental and intentional releases of toxic chemicals and other threat agents. Such chemical agents include Fourth Generation Agents (FGAs), which repr...

The presentation provides the updated information on the progress of Fukushima environmental remediation from the 2011 nuclear power plant accident.

Systems engineering can encapsulate many areas of design and production.  A prudent course is to consider the environmental effects in design, construction, operation, product manufacturing and use, and end of life.  To consider these effects requires information about ...

This report highlights the importance of effective data management in disaster response, specifically focusing on environmental sampling. In today's data-driven world, data management is crucial for decision-making, coordination, and systems thinking in disaster scenarios. Effici...

This report summarizes the results of infrastructure decontamination experiments performed at the WSTB.  These experiments focused on simulating contamination of drinking water distribution pipes with a commonly available insecticide formulation containing malathion.  M...

Waste is produced at all stages of the response and recovery (including decontamination) following a biological contamination incident. Types of materials that generate a significant proportion of the waste at every stage of the response include personal protective equipment (PPE...

Wildfire risks and losses have increased over the last 100 years, associated with population expansion, land use and management practices, and global climate change. While there have been extensive efforts at modeling the probability and severity of wildfires, there have been few...

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 multiagency pro...

Dispersion models, which are important tools for efficient routine releases and emergency response preparation scenarios, typically incorporate logarithmic wind speed profiles when simulating flow and downwind dispersion. This may be acceptable for regions with low surface roughn...

This subproduct contains text and pictures for an update/extension of the EPA Emergency Response Research's Analysis for Coastal Operational Resiliency (AnCOR) webpage (https://www.epa.gov/emergency-response-research/analysis-coastal-operational-resiliency). It describes the wide...

Climate change is a result of human behavior and has differentiated effects on communities and peoples around the United States and the globe. It is inextricably tied to a history of human development and decision-making—from individuals to organizations to entire societies. For ...

An overview of the consumption-based emission inventory being performed for Maine and other northeast states, with some preliminary results for Maine.  Many U.S. states are seeking quantitative information to inform the development of policies and plans to manage their green...

Plastic flows through the economy have increased from approximately 2 Mt/year in the 1950’s to 368 Mt in 2019, with prospects for quadrupling further by 2050.  A large amount of these plastics is made into packaging, so an emphasis on the sustainability of plastic pack...

Elevated temperature landfills (ETLFs) are municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills that have been impacted by subsurface exothermic reactions (SERs) and display unusual gas and leachate composition. Leachate quantity and quality data were analyzed to identify indicators of a SER. A...

Chemical concentration versus time (CvT) data is commonly used to characterize the toxicokinetic (TK) properties of chemical substances. However, obtaining in vivo CvT data requires scientific labor and use of animal subjects. To reduce or eliminate new animal testing, it remains...