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Wide Area Demonstration - Website Update
Citation:
Oudejans, L. Wide Area Demonstration - Website Update. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, EPA/600/S-24/091, 2024.
Impact/Purpose:
Bacillus anthracis, the causative agent of inhalation anthrax, is one of the most highly studied biological threat agents. Significant gaps remain related to the remediation of a wide area following such biological release. This extends to the remediation of critical assets owned and operated by federal partners. This website update describes the execution and outcomes from the Analysis for Coastal Operational Resiliency (AnCOR)’s Wide Area Demonstration (WAD). The AnCOR WAD was a field-scale biological remediation study with the primary purpose to operationally test and evaluate options for decontamination, sampling, data management, and waste management for areas impacted by a wide area biological agent release in a US Coast Guard or urban environment. A non-pathogenic organism, Bacillus atrophaeus var. globigii (Bg), was used as the surrogate in this study. Local, tribal, state, and federal responders can benefit from this research with new information and tools, assessed at the field scale, to ensure community resilience to a wide area biological release that threatens public health and welfare.
Description:
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 area demonstration (WAD) which was held in May 2022.