2008-04-07 Water Contamination Conference London

WATER CONTAMINATION EMERGENCIES CONFERENCE: COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY

07 April 2008 – 08 April 2008

Organised by:
SCI Environment Group
RSC-WSF and IWO

Introduction
This is the third of a linked series of international conferences. The first, ‘Water Contamination Emergencies: Can we cope?’ in March 2003, concluded that the UK Water Industry was well positioned to deal with typical emergencies. The second, ‘Water Contamination Emergencies: Enhancing our response’, drew on developing expertise, particularly in analysis and emergency planning within an international focus on possible malicious acts of contamination. The third, ‘Water Contamination Emergencies: Collective Responsibility’, seeks to encourage global sharing of any lessons learnt and collaborative research leading to the adoption of best practice.

Conference Objectives and Themes:

  • To target in-use and leading edge technologies
  • To share best practice in terms of operational procedures and security
  • To promote networking amongst experts
  • To identify collaborative and focussed research opportunities
  • To enhance cohesive plan development and inter-agency working
  • To gain common understanding of risk assessment and communication
  • To learn from real emergencies and planned exercises and highlight training needs

… so that all organisations with responsibilities in the field of Water Contamination, including CBRN incidents, continue to show effective preparedness

The conference will evolve through planning, threat management and responses and is split into three streams over the two days to cover Operations (assets, systems and operational procedures), Information (data capture, analysis and interpretation), and Communication (emergency planning, risk management and inter-agency co-operation).

Who will attend?
This conference will deal with the full range of potential contaminations scenarios (chemical, biological, radiological). It provides a significant networking opportunity, and will be of interest to:

  • medical and health professionals
  • water companies and regulators
  • environmental protection professionals
  • risk and business continuity managers
  • emergency planners
  • local authorities
  • service and support providers
  • detection and equipment suppliers
  • disaster recovery specialists
  • water security experts
  • water distribution modellers
Programme*
Track 1 – Operations
Track 2 – Information
Track 3 – Communications

Plenary

Monday 7 April
9.00am

Registration and refreshments
10.00am Introduction, Themes and Objectives
John Gray, formerly DWI
10.10am Opening remarks
Gordon Nichols, Deputy Director, Environmental & Enteric Diseases Dept, HPA Centre for Infections
Track 1 – Operations
Session 1 – Planning and Preparedness
10.40am Australian perspective
Konrad Gill, Water Sector Infrastructure Assurance Advisory Group WS-IAAG
11.15am Risk-based approaches to water quality management: integrating public health metrics in water safety planning
Guy Howard, Department for International Development (DfID)
11.50am Principles and strategy by utilities for drinking water preservation
Bruno Nguyen, W-Smart
12.25pm Managing a water supply security event: transitioning from local safety to national security
Patrick Bettane, consultant, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1.00pm Lunch, poster and exhibition viewing
Session 2 – Security and Initial Responses
2.10pm Consequence management within the EPAs water security initiative (formerly WaterSentinel)
Brian Pickard, USEPA
2.45pm Physical site security
Jim Foster, DWI
3.20pm Refreshments
3.50pm Let’s get real: real world experiences with real-time online monitoring for security and quality. Detecting and responding to events
Dan Kroll, Hach HST
4.25pm Water Infrastructure
Roland A Bradshaw, Water Utility Structure, Cranfield University
5.00pm Drinks reception, poster and exhibition viewing
6.30pm Close
Tuesday, 8 April
8.30am Registration
Session 3 – Incident Management and Aftermath
9.00am Military response to water contamination emergencies
To be advised
9.35am Modelling the CBRN threat – application to water contamination
Rob Gordon, RiskAware Ltd
10.10am Refreshments
10.40am Scientific and technical advisory cells – the challenge of getting timely public health advice to multi-agency frontline responders
Rob Carr, HPA West Midlands
11.15am Decontamination of post-service connections
Stephen Treado, NIST
11.50am Decontamination/inter-agency response with water focus
To be confirmed
12.25pm Integrated major incident management
Anthony Rowe QPM, retired, formerly Metropolitan Police Services, and London Ambulance Service
Track 2 – Information and Data Management
Monday, 7 April
Session 1 – Planning and Preparedness
10.40am Experience with vulnerability assessments
Jeff Danneels, Sandia National Laboratories
11.15am Work of Wiser
To be confirmed
11.50am To be advised
12.25pm Development of an online ATP monitor for drinking water protection
Joep Appels, microLAN
1.00pm Lunch, poster and exhibition viewing
Session 2 – Security and Initial Responses
2.10pm Sensitive, selective and simple – UV-spectrometry for contaminant alarm systems
Andreas Weingartner, s::can
2.45pm Q TRAP® LC/MS/MS system for the direct and rapid detection of trace organic contaminants in domestic water supplies
Michael Baynham, Applied Biosystems
3.20pm Refreshments
3.50pm Field detection of biological agents
David Squirrell, Enigma Diagnostics
4.25pm Optimisation of NMR methodology for non-targeted detection of water contaminants
Adrian Charlton, CSL
5.00pm Drinks reception, poster and exhibition viewing
6.30pm Close
Tuesday, 8 April
8.30am Registration
Session 3 – Incident Management and Aftermath
9.00am Water contamination: a co-ordinated response
Helen Clay-Chapman, Three Valleys Water
9.35am Radioactivity
John Cobb and Helen Griffiths, NIRAS
10.10am Refreshments
10.40am Rapid methods
K Clive Thompson, ALcontrol Laboratories
11.15am Processing and databasing spectroscopy and its use in the elucidation of unknowns
Peter Russell and Ian Peirson, Advanced Chemistry Development
11.50am Radioactivity issues and the new Green Book
Joanne Brown, HPA
12.25pm Robust online TOC monitor
Erin Milks, GE Analytical Instruments
Track 3 – Communications
Monday, 7 April
Session 1 – Planning and Preparedness
10.40am UK emergency planning
Paul Fenton, Southern Water Services Ltd
11.15am Scottish waterborne hazard plan
Richard Allan, Scottish Water
11.50am To be advised
12.25pm Research related to the water security initiative
Kim Fox, US EPA
1.00pm Lunch, poster and exhibition viewing
Session 2 – Security and Initial Responses
2.10pm Early warning and reports
Virginia Murray, CHaPD, HPA
2.45pm Police Silver Command CBRN response
To be confirmed
3.20pm

Refreshments
3.50pm A case of human anthrax in Scotland
Colin Ramsay, Health Protection Scotland
4.25pm To be advised
Graham Lloyd, HPA Emergency Response Team
5.00pm Drinks reception, poster and exhibition viewing
6.30pm Close
Tuesday, 8 April
8.30am Registration
Session 3 – Incident Management and Aftermath
9.00am Communicating with the public during water contamination events: addressing vulnerable populations
Phyllis A Nsiah-Kumi, University of Nebraska Medical Center
9.35am Medical preparedness for water contamination events
Patricia Meinhardt, Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine
10.10am Refreshments
10.40am Liability and blame in the aftermath: a lawyer’s view
Mark Scoggins, Fisher Scoggins LLP
11.15am Security – who pays?
To be advised from Airport Operators Association
11.50am

Government Decontamination Service
To be advised, Government Decontamination Service
12.25pm Risk management
Brian MacGillivray, Lancaster University
Plenary
Tuesday, 8 April
1.00pm Lunch, poster and exhibition viewing
Session 4 – Risk Management: are we sharing?
2.10pm Lessons learned in major contamination incidents
To be confirmed
3.00pm Best Practice
Keith Weston, UK Defence Academy
3.50pm The way forward
John Gray, formerly DWI
4.30pm

Close
*The Organising Committee reserves the right to change this programme without notice
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