BE SEWER SMART SUMMIT 2008

• 2007 Summit Summary
• 2006 Summit Summary
• 2005 Summit Summary

Below are some of the PowerPoint presentations given during our 2008 Sewer Smart Summit

• Don Ballantyne, Senior Consultant, MMI Engineering
  What Happens When Disaster Hits? Disaster Mitigation and Recovery



• Jeanne Perkins, ABAG Earthquake Hazards Program Consultant
  Real Data on How a Hayward Fault Earthquake Will Impact Your Water and Sewer Lines



• David Patzer, California Sanitation Risk Management Authority (CSRMA)
  Business Continuity Planning for Public Works Made Easy: The CSRMA Online BCP Builder



• Scott McCormick, Program Manager, Collaborating Agencies Responding to Disasters (CARD)
  Immediate Response -What is Your Communication Plan When Disaster Strikes?



• Jim Fischer, Engineer, State Water Resources Control Board
  Bill Cain, East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD)
  Why Sewer & Water Must Talk

*This report was written under contract to the American Lifelines Alliance, a public-private partnership between the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS). This report was reviewed by a team representing practicing engineers and operators/managers of wastewater facilities in the United States.

Sewer Smart Summit Summary 2008

• How to Assess Your Sewer System Vulnerability
• How to Minimize Damage and Disruption

Over 100 Sanitary District Operators, Public Works Directors, City Engineers, Water District Operators, Public Information Officers and gathered in the Joseph P. Bort MetroCenter, Auditorium, 101 8th Street in Oakland to explore infrastructure, hazard mitigation and recovery in the face of earthquakes and other natural disasters on Thursday, October 9, 2008, from noon until 5 pm.

Model sewer district plans for disaster recovery were analyzed. Participants were challenged with assessing their own plans for mitigating damage to their city, town or sanitary district's sewer systems and what they need to do now to be able to recover as quickly as possible once disaster strikes.

Topics covered included:

• How natural disasters - earthquakes, global warming and rising water levels - impact sewer lines and treatment facilities
• Lessons from Seattle, Loma Prieta, Northridge, Kobe and Nisqually earthquakes
• Insights from 1990 "San Francisco Liquefaction Study" and recent Vulnerability Study for King County, WA
• What you need to do now to assess your vulnerabilities (including case studies from earthquake and flood disasters)
• What you need to do to now to qualify for FEMA and local financial support in the face of a natural disaster
• How to easily develop a business continuity disaster plan
• California's program to protect the infrastructure
• How to make systems less vulnerable
• What is the connectedness between water and sewer
• How lack of water affect the brittle sewer system or sewage treatment plants?
• What communications plans cities and towns need to have in place