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Analyzing U.S. Coast Guard Facilities for Operational Resiliency
Citation:
Gibson, O., C. Fleischmann, E. Nakagawa, A. Mikelonis, AND K. Ratliff. Analyzing U.S. Coast Guard Facilities for Operational Resiliency. Presented at EPA International Decontamiantion Research and Development Conference, Norfolk, Virgina, November 19 - 21, 2019.
Impact/Purpose:
This poster presents the background for a survey administered to U.S. Coast Guard facility engineers pertaining to their readiness to respond to a biological agent terrorist attack. The poster is of interest to stewards of stormwater infrastructure and the project has the long term potential to identify strategies for controlling contamination in stormwater.
Description:
The US Coast Guard (USCG) is on the front lines of our Nation’s effort to protect the American people, homeland, and way of life. Through a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funded research study, the US Coast Guard is working with Homeland Security Research Program at the US EPA Office of Research and Development on an effort to build capabilities to predict water-driven biological contaminant movement in a wide-area environment.The information obtained in this study will be used to provide an informed recommendation as to what stormwater modeling tools and containment strategies would be rapidly deployable during an incident for the remediation of USCG facilities and assets, as well as the wide-area urban scenario.