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AWWA WSC67799
- Blast Vulnerability Assessment Tool
- Conference Proceeding by American Water Works Association, 04/01/2008
- Publisher: AWWA
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This powerpoint presentation begins by providing a brief overview of explosives and the threat they present to water tanks, towers and buried reservoirs. Information is provided on training and distribution. Conclusions included the following:cooperation between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) and the Corps of Engineers resulted in auseful PC-based tool that allows initial evaluation of the risks of blastdamage to water infrastructure;model is an adaptation of Army's AT Planner (AT = Anti-terrorism) for allstructures;work is under way to update model to include under ground storagetanks; and,further training is pending a source of funding.