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 Emergency Response and Security
Effective response to a drinking water emergency is supported
equally by two categories of information, what you know and
whom you know.
This website will help water system personnel identify measures
they can take to protect drinking water supplies, and whom to contact
when faced with a drinking water emergency.
Emergency Phone Contacts
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Office
of Drinking Water Hotline
1-877-481-4901
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FBI
Hotline (Seattle Office)
1-206-622-0460
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State
Emergency Management Duty Officer
1-800-258-5990
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National Response Center
1-800-424-8802
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Department of Ecology Spill Response
1-360-407-6300
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EPA
Region 10 Duty Officer
1-206-553-1264
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National Guard Joint Operations Center
1-253-512-8773
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Dept.
of Homeland Security
National Operations Center
1-202-282-9685
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Top 10 Water System Security Checklist
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Prepare (or update) an emergency response plan. Make
sure all employees help to create it and receive training on the
plan.
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Post updated emergency 24-hour numbers at your
facilities in highly visible areas (pump house door, vehicles,
office) and give them to key personnel and local response
officials.
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Get to know your local police and ask them to add
your facilities to their routine rounds. Practice emergency
response procedures with local police, emergency response and
public health officials.
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Fence and lock your drinking water facilities and
vulnerable areas (e.g. wellhead, hydrants, manholes, pump house,
and storage tanks).
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Lock all entry gates and doors and set alarms to
indicate illegal entry. Do not leave keys in equipment or
vehicles at any time.
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Install good lighting around your pump house,
treatment facility and parking lot.
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Identify existing and alternate water supplies and
maximize use of backflow prevention devices and
interconnections.
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Use your Source Water Assessment information to work
with any businesses and homeowners that are listed as potential
sources of contamination and lessen their threat to your source.
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Lock monitoring wells to prevent vandals or
terrorists from pouring contaminants directly into ground water
near your source. Prevent pouring or siphoning contaminants
through vent pipes by moving them inside the pump house or
treatment plant. If that isn't possible, fence or screen them.
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In case of an emergency, first call 911 then follow
your emergency response plan.
Staff Contact:
Greg McKnight, Security Coordinator (360) 236-3159 for questions
on water system security.
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