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Salvaging Water Soaked Material

Types of Flooding

Disaster Planning

1. Assessing and mitigating risks2. Writing a plan3. Initial Response4. Recovery efforts

Initial Response

Collecting recovery materials

Stabilizing the facility

Assessing the situation

Arranging for supplies

Assessing the

Situation

Minor or Major Disaster?

Minor or Moderate Disaster

Where is it?

How many records are damaged?

What materials are damaged?

How long have the records been wet?

Major Disaster

Where is the damage?

How many records are damaged?

What kind of water damage?

What materials are damaged?

Stabilizing the Facility

Respond to materials soaked by pipe corrosion, mud & debris from a flood, or salt water

Do not deal with material if contaminated by sewage

Critical Time: 24-48 Hours

Biggest adversary is High Humidity

When the relative humidity in storage areas rises above 60% for more than several days there is a risk of mold growth

Mold

Recovery Efforts

Setting Priorities

Air drying

Setting Priorities

High Value Material Historic Monetary

Irreplaceable Material Manuscripts Land Records

Other Priorities

Computer Data

Fragile Materials

Air Drying -Excellent for drying small quantities of damp and partially wet material

-Excellent for drying wet materials in a major disaster when, especially if recovery services are unavailable

Air Drying

Takes lots of space and people

Air dry indoors instead of outdoors

Use fans

Washing Material

“Poor Baby Station”

Books

1. Drain book and stand upright

2. Insert interleaves about every 10 pages

3. Change interleaves

4. Flatten book

PaperDocuments

1. Spread documents out over blotters

2. Change blotters when they have become too wet

3. Be careful of Soluble Media- dry these face up, and do not blot

Photographs

Avoid touching the surface of photographic prints and negatives

Most prints can be successfully air dried face up.

Change blotting material as it gets soaked

Oversize Material

May need more than one person to help move

Keep rolled or folded

Audio Visual

Material Do not freeze If necessary, clean

debris from AV material.

If possible, support vertically as they dry

May require specialized recovery service

Questions?