American Water Infrastructure Act: What’s New and How to Develop Your Community’s Plan
American Water Infrastructure Act: What’s New and How to Develop Your Community’s Plan By Laura Gundlach, PE Are you a water treatment system operator serving a community of over 3,300 people? If so, you will soon need to prepare or update a water system Emergency Response Plan. In the past, water system Emergency Response Plans (ERPs) were required for communities with populations over 100,000. But after the America’s Water Infrastructure Act (AWIA) was signed into law in October 2018, smaller communities are now required to participate in disaster planning. How small? Communities of over 3,300 will need to create both a “Risk and Resilience Assessment”Read More →