hifld presentation fall 2013
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EPA, HSIP and Infrastructure Data Perspectives
David Smith 202-566-0797 [email protected] Greene 202-566-2132 [email protected] Meyers 202-566-0690 [email protected] Kyle 202-564-4622 [email protected]
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• EPA ER focus has traditionally been on ESF-10 (Oil and Hazardous Waste) – shared with US Coast Guard
• Responses typically deal with sampling, monitoring, cleanup and remediation after a disaster event
• Hurricanes, Flooding, BP Deepwater Horizon, Pipeline
EPA Emergency Response
• Typically EPA has used HSIP as a reference layer, present in many ER tools and Flex Viewer applications
• Schools, Hospitals, Vulnerable Populations
EPA Use of HSIP
• Hurricane Sandy highlighted a need for infrastructure data – and exposed many locational data quality issues in drinking water/wastewater infrastructure
• Poor data quality hampered response - analysis, triage and prioritization of assessment of drinking water facilities
• EPA’s Facility Registry Service aided EPA Region 2 Regional EOC for Hurricane Sandy response
Hurricane Sandy
Many DQ issues
Drinking water locational data quality problems included
missing/invalid lat-long values, wrong county, missing or vague locations and other locational
data problems
Vague, incomplete or invalid address
Wrong county
Invalid lat-long data
• Ultimately only a small percentage of SDWIS facilities had any reliable, mappable locational data at all, whether lat/longs, or street addresses that could be geocoded
• Data gaps for infrastructure data can be filled via data from other programs and states
Drinking Water
FRS and Hurricane Sandy
Locational data gaps and incorrect data in SDWIS, as well
as supplemental contact information were filled in via EPA
Facility Registry Service (FRS) data from other EPA program data sources (TRI and others),
and by research by FRS stewards using other public data sources.
• The emergency response community needs reliable data on drinking water infrastructure, but currently that need is not easily being met.
• Better locations could be found via other systems, but this was a labor intensive, manual process.
• Lack of reliable data slows response time.
Drinking Water
• Permitting data collected by states via National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) – but is incomplete and poor logic for querying Publicly Owned Treatment Works (POTWs)
• New data coming online via Clean Watershed Needs Survey (CWNS)
Wastewater
• Ideally ER community should be able to prioritize and triage in a response, for example assessing infrastructure condition by population served
• We find data needs to be tied to other identifiers, i.e. state ID or other programs
• May need some additional attributes• FRS team is looking at how to help fill gaps
ER Infrastructure Data Needs
FRS Pilot Data Products
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Thank You / Questions?
Topic URL
FRS Home Site http://www.epa.gov/enviro/html/fii/
FRS Geodata Download http://www.epa.gov/enviro/geo_data.html
FRS REST Services http://www.epa.gov/enviro/html/fii/FRS_REST_Services.html
FRS ArcGIS Server Service http://igeo.epa.gov/ArcGIS/rest/services/OEI/FRS/MapServer
EPA Geospatial Program http://www.epa.gov/geospatial/index.html
EPA Geodata Gateway https://edg.epa.gov/
EPA Geo Metadata https://edg.epa.gov/EME/