Abstract
 ICWater: Incident Command Tool for Drinking Water Protection Track: Disaster Mangagement and Emergency Response Author(s): William Samuels, Douglas Ryan The primary purpose of the Incident Command Tool for Protecting Drinking Water (ICWater) is to make critical information rapidly available to incident commanders who would direct first responders protecting the public during a chemical, biological, or radiological (CBR) attack on a drinking water source. The tool is designed to enable incident commanders to quickly evaluate the threat posed to the public and take action to reduce the threat. Second, the tool also offers forensics capability to track down the sources of contamination and thus applies to law enforcement and forensics operations as well. ICWater's core component, RiverSpill, is a GIS-based system used to track and model the flow and concentration of contaminants in source water supplies. With RiverSpill, personnel can calculate, locate, and map the population that could be at risk from the contamination of a public water supply by providing both upstream and downstream tracing. William Samuels SAIC Hazard Assessment and Simulation Division 1410 Spring Hill Road McLean , VA 22102 US Phone: 703 676 8043 Fax: 703 676 8025 E-mail: william.b.samuels@saic.com Douglas Ryan USDA Forest Service 3625 93rd Avenue SW Olympia , WA 98512 US Phone: (360) 753-7652 Fax: (360) 753-7737 E-mail: dryan01@fs.fed.us |
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