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AWWA WSC70018
- Water Laboratory Alliance: A Focus on Laboratory Response
- Conference Proceeding by American Water Works Association, 11/01/2009
- Publisher: AWWA
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This powerpoint presentation begins by providing a brief overview of enhancing laboratory preparedness, the Environmental Response LaboratoryNetwork (ERLN), and the Water Laboratory Alliance (WLA). The Regional Drinking WaterLaboratory Preparedness Four-Phased Project is presented and includes:developing a generic response plan template;facilitating meetings in each region to refine/customizeplan template to meet the needs and challenges of labsin each region;table top exercises in each region to practice what thelaboratories have agreed to in their customized plan; and,functional exercises in each region to further challengeand test the plan with blind, spiked samples, unknownsanalyses, and data generation and transmission. Regional Laboratory Response Plan (RLRP) elements evaluated during FX are presented, along with the benefits offunctional exercise participation, significant findings from the exercises, the Water Laboratory Alliance NationalResponse Plan (WLA-NRP), and a full-scale exerciseof the WLA-NRP. Includes table, figure.