Securing Wastewater Facilities: Utilities Have Mad

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Securing Wastewater Facilities: Utilities Have Made Important Upgrades but Further Improvements to Key System Components May be Limited by Costs and Other Restraints

Wastewater treatment facilities (WTF) provide esse

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By John B. Stephenson (au)
Year: 2006
Pages: 63
Binding Paperback

Product Code: 1422307778

Description

Wastewater treatment facilities (WTF) provide essential services to residential, commercial, & ind’l. users, yet they may possess certain characteristics that terrorists could exploit to impair the wastewater treat. process or damage surrounding infrastructure. For ex., large underground collector sewers could be accessed by terrorists to place destructive devices beneath bldgs. or city streets. This report determines: what fed. statutory authorities & directives govern the protection of WTF from terrorist attack; what steps critical wastewater facilities have taken since the terrorist attacks of 9/11 to ensure that potential vulnerabilities are addressed, & what steps the EPA & the DHS have taken to help these WTF in their efforts to address such vulnerabilities. Illus.

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