Performance and Resilience Analysis of a New York Drinking Water System to Localized and System-Wide Emergencies
Publication: Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management
Volume 149, Issue 1
Abstract
Drinking water utilities are vulnerable to both human-caused and natural disasters that can impact the system infrastructure and the delivery of potable water to consumers. Analyzing system performance and resilience can help utilities identify areas of high risk or concern, understand the impacts on consumers, and evaluate response actions during disasters. In this case study, the Water Network Tool for Resilience (WNTR) was used to investigate the performance and resilience of a drinking water system in New York during increased demands due to firefighting, pipe damage, and loss of the source water emergencies. This case study introduced a new combined performance index (CPI) resilience metric, which served to quantify system resilience as a ratio of system performance during an emergency to normal operations. The results revealed that this drinking water system was able to maintain service to most of the consumers during these emergencies due to high redundancy within the system, and conservation efforts extended water service for an additional 20 h. The analysis in this paper can be used by other drinking water utilities to understand their vulnerabilities and evaluate resilience-improving actions in similar disaster scenarios.
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Data Availability Statement
Some or all data, models, or code used during the study were provided by a third party (water distribution network model). Direct requests for these materials may be made to the provider as indicated in the Acknowledgements.
Acknowledgments
The authors would like to acknowledge Randy Alstadt, Joint Water Board Administrator at Poughkeepsie’s Water Treatment Facility, for his input and support during this analysis.
Disclaimer
The EPA through its Office of Research and Development funded and managed the research described herein under Interagency Agreement (IA # DW08992524701) with the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) and Interagency Agreement (IA #DW08992513801) with the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories. It has been subjected to review by the Office of Research and Development and approved for publication. Any mention of trade names, manufacturers, or products does not imply an endorsement by the United States Government or the US Environmental Protection Agency. EPA and its employees do not endorse any commercial products, services, or enterprises. Sandia National Laboratories is a multimission laboratory managed and operated by National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Honeywell International, Inc., for the US Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration under contract DE-NA0003525. This paper describes objective technical results and analysis. Any subjective views or opinions that might be expressed in the paper do not necessarily represent the views of the US Department of Energy or the United States Government.
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