Water-power lifeline interaction
- East Bay Municipal Utility District, Oakland, CA (United States)
- G and E Engineering Systems, Oakland, CA (United States)
The interaction of water and power lifelines is described in three modes of operation: normal, fire and earthquake. Case study applications will be taken from large water and electric lifelines serving the greater San Francisco Bay Area operated by East Bay Municipal Utility District (water) and Pacific Gas and Electric (electricity). Two emergency events are examined: the recent 1991 Oakland Hills firestorm and a future Hayward Magnitude 7 earthquake. Both the water and electric lifelines have limitations under these emergencies that will hamper provision of lifeline services to end users of water and electricity. A model is presented to deal with the interactions between these utilities. By using this model, the water utility can plan for a reasonable number of backup power/pumping units to deal with these types of emergency events.
- OSTI ID:
- 403459
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9508226-; ISBN 0-7844-0101-2; TRN: IM9651%%494
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 4. U.S. conference on lifeline earthquake engineering, San Francisco, CA (United States), 10-12 Aug 1995; Other Information: PBD: 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of Lifeline earthquake engineering: Proceedings of the fourth U.S. conference; O`Rourke, M.J. [ed.]; PB: 823 p.; Technical Council on Lifeline Earthquake Engineering, Monograph number 6
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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