Why New Jersey Should
Preserve Authority Ownership!
brochure is
available here.
ICS-CERT - Industrial Control
Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team
(posted 1/14/10)
Click here
for further info
Our nation depends on
the continuous and reliable
performance of a vast
and interconnected critical
infrastructure to
sustain our way of life. This
infrastructure, the
majority of which is owned by
the private sector, is
comprised of critical infrastructures
and key resources (CIKR),
such as Energy, Chemical, Banking and
Finance, Dams, Water Treatment Systems,
Postal and Shipping, Information
Technology Telecommunications,
Commercial Nuclear Reactors, and many
more.
With cyber threats to
these computer systems on
the rise, the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security
(DHS) is working to
better protect control
systems and the
nation’s critical infrastructure.
Secretary Napolitano Meets With Private
Sector Critical Infrastructure Leaders,
Launches New Web Site
11/30/09
EPA Proposes Stronger Air Quality
Standards for Sulfur Dioxide
(posted 11/24/09)
New standard to protect millions of
the nation’s most vulnerable citizens
WASHINGTON – For the first time
in nearly 40 years, EPA is proposing
to strengthen the nation’s sulfur
dioxide (SO2) air quality standard to
protect public health. Power plants
and other industrial facilities emit
SO2 directly into the air. Exposure to
SO2 can aggravate asthma, cause
respiratory difficulties, and result
in emergency room visits and
hospitalization. People with asthma,
children, and the elderly are
especially vulnerable to SO2’s
effects.
“Short-term exposures to peak SO2
levels can have significant health
effects – especially for children and
the elderly – and leave our families
and taxpayers saddled with high health
care costs,” said EPA Administrator
Lisa P. Jackson. “We’re strengthening
clean air standards, stepping up
monitoring and reporting in
communities most in need, and
providing the American people with
protections they rightly deserve.”
EPA is taking comment on a proposal to
establish a new national one-hour SO2
standard, between 50 and 100 parts per
billion (ppb). This standard is
designed to protect against short-term
exposures ranging from five minutes to
24 hours. Because the revised
standards would be more protective,
EPA is proposing to revoke the current
24-hour and annual SO2 health
standards.
EPA also is proposing changes to
monitoring and reporting requirements
for SO2. Monitors would be placed in
areas with high SO2 emission levels as
well as in urban areas. The proposal
also would change the Air Quality
Index to reflect the revised SO2
standards. This change would improve
states’ ability to alert the public
when short-term SO2 levels may affect
their health.
The proposal addresses only the SO2
primary standards, which are designed
to protect public health. EPA will
address the secondary standard –
designed to protect the public
welfare, including the environment –
as part of a separate proposal in
2011.
EPA first set National Ambient Air
Quality Standards for SO2 in 1971,
establishing both a primary standard
to protect health and a secondary
standard to protect the public
welfare. Annual average SO2
concentrations have decreased by more
than 71 percent since 1980.
The public comment period will be open
for 60 days after the proposal is
published in the Federal Register. The
agency will hold a public hearing on
Jan. 5, 2010 in Atlanta. EPA must
issue final standards by June 2,
2010.
More information about the proposal:
http://www.epa.gov/air/sulfurdioxide
EPA Administrator
Announces Plan to Retool and Reinvigorate Clean Water
Enforcement Program
(posted 10/19/09)
Link to
water/ww Pandemic Flu Guideline
http://amwa.net/galleries/default-file/Annex
Water.pdf
CDCs
Guidance on Seasonal Flu 2009-2010
The CDC is releasing new guidance that
recommends actions that non-healthcare
employers should take now to decrease
the spread of seasonal flu and 2009 H1N1
flu in the workplace and to help
maintain business continuity during the
2009-2010 flu season.
Click here for the document.
(posted
8/31/09)
Revised Technical Guidelines for
Evaluating Ground-Water-Recharge
BMPs in New Jersey, March 2009
This corrects the error in the
earlier version of the inappropriate
use of the field capacity term. It
also adds a section on suggested
ASTM lab techniques for determining
specific yield and porosity.
Review document here.
pdf
Protecting Personal Information
(posted 3/19/09)
Federal Trade Commission
A Guide for Business
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/
business/idtheft/bus69.pdf
Liquid Assets
(posted 3/4/09)
Have you
seen liquid assets?
Liquid Assets Town Hall-advertisement
Liquid Assets registration
Clean
Water Council (posted
2/12/09)
The CWC has published their
recommendations for sustaining utility
infrastructure. Members will not be
surprised to see that the council
endorses full price rates that
incorporate capital reserves for
replenishment and replacement of
systems. Should you find your local
officials criticizing the authorities
accounting and budgeting, you might
want to have this report to counter
critics.
Recommendations
pdf
Preparedness reminder
For one stop shopping for all the latest
manuals, and materials for water and
wastewater preparedness and NIMS
training information go this web site:
http://cfpub.epa.gov/safewater/
watersecurity/home.cfm?program_id=8
