U.S. EPA's CREAT is a risk assessment application, which helps utilities in adapting to extreme weather events through a better understanding of current and long-term weather conditions.
As part of National Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Month, U.S. EPA reminds water and wastewater utilities of its Climate Resilience Evaluation and Awareness Tool (CREAT). This tool is a climate risk assessment and planning application for water, wastewater, and stormwater utilities. Utilities can use CREAT to understand the impacts of climate change, assess adaptation options, and conduct cost-benefit analyses of risk reduction strategies. EPA.
EPA launched on August 15 Version 3.0 of the Climate Resilience Evaluation and Awareness Tool (CREAT). CREAT 3.0 is now a web-based tool with a much-improved intuitive user interface compared with previous versions. To access the tool, users must register to receive a login and password. All analyses generated in CREAT belong to the user and are not accessible to other users.
EPA has published version 3.0 of its Climate Resilience and Evaluation Tool (CREAT) along with a methodology guide. The web-based application was developed to assist drinking water, wastewater and stormwater utility owners and operators in understanding potential climate change threats and assess the related risks at their individual utilities. According to the guide, the risk assessment process is designed to be iterative. The goals are to increase operators’ awareness of climate change impacts and assist utilities in determining threshold levels for asset failures.
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