Abstract
Using GIS for Hawaii Inland Area Contingency Planning
Track: Environmental Management
Author(s): Shelly Lam, Greg Powell
The United States Environmental Protection Agency is preparing an Inland Area Contingency Plan for responding to releases of oil and hazardous materials in the state of Hawaii. Protection of public health and the environment is an effort that is inherently geographic in nature. An informed understanding of the complex spatial relationships among natural resources, human beings and potential or known pollution sources is critical to successfully accomplishing the mission of incident preparedness and response.
The project has included creating a geodatabase and GIS to manage the data, such as hydrography, infrastructure, and jurisdictional boundaries; sensitive resources, such as sensitive species and natural communities, managed areas, and cultural resources; and potential spill sources such as fixed storage facilities, pipelines, and indirect sources. Field data are collected using ArcPad. The GIS data are used to conduct risk analysis by evaluating sets of potential risk sources (threats) and sets of sensitive resources (sensitivity).
Shelly Lam
Tetra Tech
4820 Olympic Blvd
Erlanger , Kentucky 41018
United States
Phone: 513-569-7361
Fax: 513-487-2775
E-mail: shelly.lam@ttemi.com
Greg Powell
EPA
4900 Olympic Blvd
Erlanger , Kentucky 41018
United States
Phone: 513-569-7533
E-mail: powell.greg@epa.gov