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This study reports on two full-scale pilot investigations conducted at wastewater treatment facilities in Cincinnati, Ohio (USA).It demonstrates two aspects: first, to assess the comparative disinfection performance of a dual disinfection treatment method employing peracetic acid...

Background Links between climate change and mental health concerns in the USA are recognised, but research is underdeveloped. Many studies rely on self-reported exposures, non-representative samples, or inconsistent definitions of mental health outcomes, limiting their utility in...

There is a growing focus in the scientific literature on building community resilience as a pathway to improving human well-being. Community resilience as an outcome for decision making has been defined as both a state to be achieved and a process to be followed. Here the latter ...

Community Hazard-scape and Amenity Placement for Providing Improved Endpoints (CHAPPIE) is designed to characterize community resilience based on the hazards households face and amenities that contribute to their resilience with the aim to identify ways to improve community resil...

In 2020 the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Research and Development (ORD) and the Educational Partnerships for Innovation in Communities Network (EPIC-N) signed a 5-year Memorandum of Understanding to focus on enhancing and supporting efforts that c...

HSRP has been developing a methodology that addresses issues related to using disparate data sets with a diversity of units, data availability limitations, and scales to standardize use to inform gross mitigation of biological/radiological incident impacts. The methodology employ...

3D Sample Design: Current sample design tools utilize a 2D (top-down) approach for designing and implementing the placement of samples. This causes a disconnect between where the sample was intended to be collected vs what is shown on a 2D display or map. Furthermore, these desig...

Growing hazard exposures and deepening social disparities highlight the need for resilience frameworks that capture not only risk and vulnerability but also the processes through which communities adapt. Most existing indices rely on static indicators that describe socioeconomic ...

Background: The risk of developing heat-related illness increases when personal protective equipment (PPE) is worn, especially in hot and humid environments. While cooling strategies are effective, they must be applied preemptively or delivered promptly, which can be difficult if...

This document includes an overview summary of the Water Network Tool for Resilience (WNTR), a listing of the data requirements to use WNTR, and a list of WNTR tutorials available. It also includes Jupyter Notebooks for these tutorials. These resources can help drinking water util...

Advanced oxidation processes are currently being looked at as potentially better methods for treating organic contaminants found in waters due to industrial accidents, natural, and man-made incidents. Hydrogen peroxide and ozone devices are fairly well-known and guidance is neede...

Reusable PPE has the potential to address waste management concerns generated by the use of single-use, disposable PPE. Reusable respirators could reduce the waste generated by N95 use by 60%. 3D printing of PPE was recently explored by HSRP as a solution to COVID-19 incited cris...

This subproduct investigates waste management issues and challenges that arise during biological incidents (e.g., disease outbreak, accidental or deliberate release). It presents preliminary findings of qualitative research on the intersection of public health, emergency manageme...

To support the city of Crisfield, MD’s coastal community resilience goals and associated decision-making, this climate-smart design assessment evaluates the potential effectiveness of selected nature-based solutions (NBS) in terms of strategic design for long-term robustness in t...

To support the city of Crisfield, MD’s coastal community resilience goals and associated decision-making, this climate-smart design assessment evaluates the potential effectiveness of selected nature-based solutions (NBS) in terms of strategic design for long-term robustness in t...

Drinking water utilities need to be resilient to all types of disasters. The Water Network Tool for Resilience (WNTR) will be updated to use data projection maps available in Office of Water's Climate Resilience Evaluation and Awareness Tool (CREAT). The inclusion of these maps w...

The Crisfield City Council invited EPA Office of Research & Development (ORD) to brief them about the current status of the natural infrastructure coastal resilience research co-development efforts.  This presentation will explain how the current proposed map of nature-b...

The collection of documents include a survey dataset and cover page that describes the survey methods. The survey data was collected in 2020 with EPA staff who work on Superfund, brownfield, emergency response, and other types of cleanup actions. The purpose of the survey was to ...

The compound effects of fluvial flooding, tidal dynamics, and sea-level rise (SLR) have the potential to mobilize pollutants at contaminated sites, which are often situated in flood-prone areas. We assessed the compound effects of these flood drivers on benzo[a]pyrene (B[a]P)-con...

The EPA flooded homes website is intended to help homeowners, renters, and volunteers safely muck out, clean up, and fix up homes that have been affected by flooding. This presentation describes the research used to develop the website as a risk communication tool. The research p...

Disasters generate significant quantities of debris. This material is managed under complicated authorities and institutional arrangements, which place significant logistical, financial, and emotional burdens on communities; but social science research on disaster waste is limite...

Like many coastal communities, the City of Crisfield, Maryland, is experiencing increased inundation due to sea level rise (SLR), land subsidence, and intensifying extratropical storms. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Research and Development (ORD) has pa...

This presentation explores the transformative role of artificial intelligence (AI) in emergency response, highlighting how AI technologies are enhancing decision-making, resource allocation, and situational awareness during crises. It examines real-world applications such as pred...

COVID presented unique disaster waste management challenges to public health responders and waste managers alike. EPA researchers found multiple operational opportunities for improved sustainability in disaster waste management via focus group research with emergency and waste ma...

National and sub-national climate assessments serve different societal purposes and are produced in distinct knowledge governance contexts. This article looks at the inclusion of the social sciences in recent climate assessment reports from national and sub-national jurisdictions...