Framework for Shared Drinking Water Risk Assessment.

Technical Report · Sun Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 2017

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1339494· OSTI ID:1339494

Lowry, Thomas Stephen ^[1]; Tidwell, Vincent C. ^[1]; Peplinski, William John ^[1]; Mitchell, Roger ^[1]; Binning, David ^[2]; Meszaros, Jenny ^[2]

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1. Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
2. AEM Corp., Herndon, VA (United States)

Central to protecting our nation's critical infrastructure is the development of methodologies for prioritizing action and supporting resource allocation decisions associated with risk-reduction initiatives. Toward this need a web-based risk assessment framework that promotes the anonymous sharing of results among water utilities is demonstrated. Anonymous sharing of results offers a number of potential advantages such as assistance in recognizing and correcting bias, identification of 'unknown, unknowns', self-assessment and benchmarking for the local utility, treatment of shared assets and/or threats across multiple utilities, and prioritization of actions beyond the scale of a single utility. The constructed framework was demonstrated for three water utilities. Demonstration results were then compared to risk assessment results developed using a different risk assessment application by a different set of analysts.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: DHS S&T; USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-94AL85000
• OSTI ID: 1339494
• Report Number(s): SAND2017-0241; 650294
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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