On October 31, 2014, EPA released the final version of its Agency-wide Climate Change Adaptation Plan and the seventeen Climate Change Adaptation Implementation Plans. These Plans were developed in response to directives in President Obama's Executive Order 13653 - Preparing the United States for the Impacts of Climate Change.
U.S. EPA announced the award of four Great Lakes Restoration Initiative grants totaling over $8.6 million to Ohio, Michigan and Indiana state agencies to protect public health by targeting harmful algal blooms in western Lake Erie. “In the wake of the Toledo-area drinking water ban, EPA quickly convened a meeting with state and federal agencies to identify their most immediate funding needs to reduce pollutants that contribute to harmful algae in western Lake Erie,” U.S. EPA Region 5 Administrator/Great Lakes National Program Manager Susan Hedman said.
The U.S. EPA has developed a guide to help drinking water and wastewater utilities become more resilient to flooding. The guide helps utilities examine the threat of flooding, determine impacts to assets, and identify cost-effective mitigation options. The approach used in the guide was successfully tested during a pilot project at the Berwick Water Department in Maine. The guide includes a user-friendly layout, embedded videos, and flood maps to help guide utilities through the process.
The U.S. EPA “Secure Your Utility” video describes how Pima County Regional Wastewater Reclamation Department benefited by implementing aspects of the water sector’s “Key Features of an Active and Effective Protective Program.” This program was developed to assist owners and operators of drinking water and wastewater utilities in preventing, detecting, responding to, and recovering from adverse effects of all hazards, including terrorist attacks and natural hazards. U.S. EPA.
U.S. EPA's Water Health & Economic Analysis Tool provides drinking water and wastewater utilities with likely health and economic outcomes and a detailed consequence analysis of the loss of assets in an incident.
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