EPA, HSIP and Infrastructure Data Perspectives

David Smith 202-566-0797 Smith.DavidG@epa.govAna Greene 202-566-2132 Greene.Ana@epa.govAaron Meyers 202-566-0690 Meyers.Aaron@epa.govLee Kyle 202-564-4622 Kyle.Lee@epa.gov

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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/