Philadelphia Water Department Case Study re: Surveillance and Response Systems
The Philadelphia Water Department developed the following reports to share their experience with surveillance and response systems.
Note: While these reports were developed using EPA funding under EPA's Water Security Initiative (WSI), they may not necessarily reflect the views of the agency.
- Contamination Warning System Dashboard Development (pdf)
- Development of User Requirements and Use Cases for an SRS Dashboard (pdf)
- Locating Online Water Quality Monitoring Stations Using TEVA-SPOT (pdf)
- Selection of Online Water Quality Monitoring Technologies and Station Design (pdf)
- How to Select an Online Water Quality Monitoring Data Management System (pdf)
- Physical Security Monitoring (pdf)
- Customer Complaints Surveillance (pdf)
- Public Health Surveillance (pdf)
- Water Contamination Response (Consequence Management) (pdf)
- Site Characterization and Water Sampling (pdf)
- Safety Screening for Radiological Contaminants During Site Characterization (pdf)
- Developing and Maintaining a Baseline for Water Quality (pdf)
- Development of Control Limits for Baseline Water Quality Monitoring (pdf)
- Exercises and Lessons Learned Improve Response Preparedness for Site Characterization and Sampling (pdf)