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Storm‐related Power Outages: Are You Ready?
Author(s) -
Spence Shan,
Thompson Phil
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.5942/jawwa.2012.104.0062
Subject(s) - storm , preparedness , plan (archaeology) , terrorism , emergency management , emergency planning , power (physics) , environmental science , meteorology , forensic engineering , engineering , history , geography , political science , archaeology , law , physics , quantum mechanics
Having standby power available if a primary electrical power source fails ‐ from severe weather, equipment malfunction, accidents, or terrorist attacks ‐ is vital to a water utility's emergency operations plan. As the Suffolk (N.Y.) County Water Authority found out last summer, there is no better way to test preparedness than by weathering a potentially devastating large storm.