National Rural Water Association
katrina@ruralwater.org
Rural Water
testimony before House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee
Appendix
(assessments in AL) (.pdf
or .doc)
Appendix
(assessments in LA) (.pdf
or .doc)
Appendix
(assessments in MS) (.pdf
or .doc)
The EPA Region 6
assessment continues defining the
problems LA – here is there latest database.
Texas Rural
Water Association Update (Contact: (512) 472-8591, Tom Duck duck@trwa.org)
TRWA has activated their
Emergency Response Plan in an effort to assist our members in the wake of
hurricane Rita. We are coordinating our
efforts with the TCEQ, RD and other state and federal agencies. Our goal is to get TRWA field staff into the
impacted areas as quickly as possible after the hurricane is over and the first
responders allow utility crews access.
The TRWA staff will coordinator reports, coordinate supplies, equipment,
inventory control, coordinator with TCEQ, EPA and Health Department
laboratories, RD, FEMA and Governor's Office of Emergency Preparedness,
coordinator with TRWA Field Staff - On-site damage, assessment, water samples,
work assignments, media, etc. TRWA
staff is currently being staged in different locations along the Texas Gulf
Coast. All staff is being equipped with
food, supplies, tools and necessary protective gear. We will work in teams of 2 with relief crews ready for
backup. All of our members along the
Gulf Coast have been contacted in advance of the storm and been instructed on
how to contact us if they need assistance.
Our ERP management staff have gathered at our headquarters in Austin and
we will be fully operational within the next 24 hours. TRWA recently purchased a 100kW generator
that is mounted on a truck and is self-contained with extra fuel tanks,
couplings, tools, etc.
Arkansas Rural Water
Association Update (Contact: Dennis Sternberg,
501-676-2255,
arwads@arkansas.net)
ARWA is sending us the
list of the 50 utilities that have signed mutual aid agreements within the
state. These utilities have agreed to
help and ARWA will be calling them to see what resources (generators, backhoes,
chlorinators, etc.) they have to lend to systems in Arkansas and is compiling a
emergency database. ARWA is also
contacting all the systems on the southern border of the state to ensure they
know ARWA is the point of contact for needs and updates on status as the
hurricane comes. ARWA’s database will
include (the often hard to find in a crisis) cell phone numbers and two-way
radio numbers for those systems. ARWA
plans to be able to immediately assess the needs of the utilities in Arkansas
and deploy ARWA field staff and mutual aid utilities to communities impacted.
Alabama Update
(Contact: Kathy Horne, 334) 396-5511,
arwa@alruralwater.com)
See Katrina Response below
Florida Update (Contact: Gary William, gary@frwa.net, 850
668 2746)
Florida and FlaWarn are trying to determine if we can
help a state as far away as Texas, if requested. This probably is a two-step process 1. Does TX ask for help of Florida and will Governor approve an EMAC
arrangement, request mission number and enable a response effort? Second, will Florida utilities agree to go,
once all administrative details are confirmed, if they are asked? A likely yes is expected to question 2. FRWA will assist TRWA directly, if
asked. We have cleared all Florida
systems as not needing response or assistance related to Rita brushing Florida
as of today. So we can assist elsewhere
without continuing response concern in Florida, at this point. If other storms
threaten, first responsibility is to Florida systems.
Mississippi Update (Contact: Pete Boone, 601-857-2433, msrwa@netdoor.com)
See Katrina Response below
Oklahoma Update (Contact:
Gene Whatley,
Expecting 6-12 inches of
rain. Some systems could be flooded and
without pressure or power. Relying on
FEMA and state DEQ for assessments.
Louisiana Update (Pat
Creduer, LaRWA@centurytel.net,
800-256-2591)
See Katrina Response below
(Various News) Hurricane
Rita now a Category 5 storm with powerful winds that are stronger than those of
Hurricane Katrina, refineries along the Texas coast are bracing for a hard
hit. At least eight refineries along
the Texas coast were likely to shut down soon, and several were already scaling
back operations yesterday. Depending on
Rita's path, nearly 20 percent of U.S. refining capacity could be offline by
this weekend. At a minimum, refineries
will be off line for several days as it takes nearly two days to bring a fully
shut-down refinery back into normal production. More than 160 plants in Texas are in the potential path of
Hurricane Rita. Most chemical plants
were in the process of
shutting down yesterday in
preparation for the hurricane.
Inside EPA article
with good assessment of various responses to Katrina for water supplies.
9/19/05
Louisiana Rural Water
“peeled” off from the EPA Region 6 assessment (one week ago). All rural water field staff have stopped
with EPA’s assessment and are now concentrating on assistance and field work
(technical assistance). Currently there
at 18 rural water teams in the filed from TN, AR, OK, KY, GA, and TX that are
focusing on leaks, pressuring up systems, disinfection, wells, etc. There is need for additional equipment like
generators that have not been staged anywhere (rural water has requested
generators, fuel, chlorinators, satellite phones, bulk tank, disinfection
treatment parts, etc. from federal authorities) – all have been slow in
coming. LRWA reports, they are
maintaining a good relationship with EPA after peeling off to conduct
independent assessments and assistance.
Rural Water efforts reports assessing immediate needs by contacting
Parrish health agencies for triage – and contacting all member systems in
impacted areas. Rural water has been
delivering daily bulk potable water to communities using poly tanks (i.e.
Fulker Chapel, Bayou Liberty, Regalese, etc.).
LRWA reports that customers were begging for water last week.
Reports from LA last week
indicate that:
9/13/2005
Reports from Region 6
Louisiana - assessments
on 476 water systems
9/12/2005
Reports from Louisiana
indicate the EPA Region 6 Assessment
stopped at 12:00 on Friday for the weekend.
Last week EPA reported that “approximately 378 drinking
water systems that are not in operation in LA.” EPA has not reported providing any assistance to water supplies
(only reporting on their condition and not conducting any triage in the
assessment) in the EPA
database
Mississippi reports dozens
of incidence of technical assistance in hard hit coastal counties last week and
through the weekend. One technical
field person reported the following when asked what is common technical
assistance needed in damaged communities:
“Much more complicated
[than just generators]. Electrical
components cleaned and replaced, control panels rebuilt, electric motors and
pumps replaced or rebuilt, by-pass pumps installed, generators wired direct,
lift stations cleaned with vacuumed or jet cleaned, leaks located and repaired
with backhoes brought out from Florida, valves located and closed/opened or
valves inserted to isolate areas of system, lift station rebuilt, wastewater
plants made to work with baling wire, rubber bands, bubble gum or anything
laying around. For example, wire is
needed to bypass missing electrical controls so crews go into rubble of
destroyed house and pull out wire to rewire water and wastewater plants. Think in terms of 50 McGuyvers doing
whatever it takes to get water to folks and stop wastewater in the streets, in
the Gulf, etc. At one plants Florida
crews walked around the destroyed warehouse/supply building to find circuit
boards, fuses, whatever they needed and could find to get plant online. They even took circuit boards found and
cleaned-up best they could so they could be used. These are master electricians, instrument techs, and top
professionals in there areas.
Last week, EPA reported
moving an additional 30 EPA office workers to Louisiana to assist water
supplies.
On Thursday, the EPA, DHS
and WaterISAC reported, “it is clear that federal, state and local agencies are
still in the damage assessment phase of operations.”
Alabama field reports indicate that
Alabama has been well on its way to recovery for a week. Alabama Rural Water has already starting documenting the
completion of the initial response in Alabama and sending staff to other
states. Mississippi is recovering
rapidly including the three coastal counties.
Additionally much of this progress has been through the sharing of
technical expertise and resources among the regional water utilities. Arkansas Rural Water moved into Mississippi
last week, and Texas Rural Water (TRWA) reports that they sent a group of
circuit riders and other staff to assist in Louisiana. They report back the need for common hand
tools (power tools do not work without power) testing equipment, gloves, wading
boots, extra fuel tanks, insect repellent, batteries and power generators. TRWA has purchased one 100kW truck mounted
power generator and one trailer mounted 100kW generator.
Also EPA, DHS and WaterISAC
stated that, “currently it is too early to determine exactly what supplies,
equipment and expertise are needed.”
Florida Rural Water and the
Florida relief effort have been in Mississippi for over a week. He is some of the volunteers from FL in MS: Jacksonville
Electric Authority, Gainesville Regional Utilities, City of Stuart, Toho
Utilities (Kissimmee), Orange County water and wastewater divisions, City of
Atlantic Beach, Destin Water Users, South Walton Utilities, Escambia County
Utilities Authority, Tampa Bay Water, Orlando Utility Commission, City of
Winter Park, City of St Cloud, LJ Ruffin and Company. Many others are in route or being asked to wait for few days as
replacement crews. Okaloosa County,
City of Tallahassee, and a few others from the Fl Panhandle are coming out
Monday--tomorrow. This the delegation
that has provided the technical assistance described above.
9/9/2005 10:38 AM
Mississippi
Rural Water Reports that progress is being made in “moving forward” in coastal
counties. Their emergency response
operation is in the three coastal counties with resources, generators, and
personnel. Arkansas Rural Water has
moved into the non-coastal impacted counties to assist with leak repair. Water
is restored in these counties but utilities are having a difficult time
repairing leaks and keeping the pressure adequate. In the coastal counties: Moss Pointe had water restored and was
due to have their wastewater restored any minute (5 Florida volunteers were
assisting). Crews were moving to
Gautier on Friday to assist with wastewater service restoration. Crews were also moving to assist Gulf
Pointe, which had water service but needed waste water service. Long Beach was reported to have restored
service without assistance. Harrison
County Waste Water’s lift stations were back in service yesterday. Florida has a delegation in the coastal
counties that includes 25 utilities, Florida Rural Water and others that we
will list shortly. Florida crews were
heading to Pass Christian to assist with leaks and lift stations. Bay St. Louis had water service working and
crews were working on restoring lift stations.
Waveland’s water was in service and in the process of assessing lift
stations – federal authorities are considering placing 300 mobile homes in this
area and need emergency water line developed to service these homes. Hancock Regional Waste Water waiting on
generator from U.S. Army Corps (or FEMA).
Numerous reports of generators, for wastewater restoration, not yet
delivered to communities from federal authorities. Hancock County Water/Sewer also waiting for a generator from
federal authorities (and suction pump), however their water service is
restored. Kiln has water service. Diamond Head has water and was to have sewer
by today. Florida crews have been assisting in Bay St. Louis, Diamond Head, and
Waveland.
In Louisiana reports
indicate EPA operation is still assessing all systems on-site with the focus on
clearing boil water alerts. All state
resources are being organized by EPA and directed toward this assessment. According to EPA,
“138 drinking water
assessments as of Sept 7 (of 684).. On
Thursday, personnel in 28 teams visited 82 drinking water systems. The data
will be entered tomorrow and updated. The
data has not been cross checked with LADHH official remove boil water updates.
If a discrepance exists it in this sheet and LADHH's list of systems on boil
water notices, LADHH's is correct.
LADHH is the only Agency removing boil water notices. The data is as collected. Where we know of discrepancies we are
checking with LADHH and the individuals who did the survey. As the process moves forward and the teams
become more experienced these discrepancies will diminish.”
It appears EPA is about 20%
completed with assessment after 4 days – with main focus of mission is to clear
boil water notices. According to EPA’s
database of the first
138 field assessments: many were fine and did not experience any water
quaintly problems, many need generators, many systems not in operation and
could not provide EPA with requested samples, many need technical assistance,
etc. (see last data field). It is
unclear what the assessment will be used for other than clearing boil water
orders. Do date, where are not aware of
any technical assistance provided by the operation short of sampling - nor is
any reported in the assessment database (perhaps this will be a part of the
operation after assessment is completed – which we will inquiry to EPA). A very rough estimate indicate EPA can complete
40 assessments each day – however there is only three days to evaluate. EPA reports that they are moving an
additional 30 EPA staff into Louisiana to assist in the reporting. In Louisiana, crews organized by EPA
typically meet every morning until approximately 11:00 at command center and
then are dispatched to the field to make on-site contacts to fill-out forms
(assessments) and report back to command center with completed forms to be
imputed into EPA data base by 5:00 pm.
The objective is to blanket the state with completion of assessment
starting with least impacted areas.
According to EPA, as of Thursday, they had about 20% of the system
assessed. From the last field in the
database, it is obvious many systems are in great need of immediate resources
and immediate technical assistance.
One community (Bayou
Liberty Water Association) reported yesterday that were not able to receive
a emergency generator for the past 10 days however they don’t need it currently
because power is being restored to their utility. Lack of power caused their water service to stop for 4 days. What they currently need is manpower to fix
leaks, relief for operators, technical assistance on sustaining pressure, and
removal fallen trees and debris (backhoe) that are making it difficult for the
community to maintain pressure. They
are receiving fuel to power some wells from local parish maintenance crew. They explained to the emergency response
assessment that they can’t submit water samples because they won’t pass because
they can’t sustain pressure – and that the lifting of the boil notice is not
the community’s priority concern at the moment.
9/7/2005 12:10 PM
Summary of three states:
·
Alabama: All but two communities
(see below) in good shape (data).
·
Mississippi: Non-coastal
counties progressing (see below) - limited assessment in coastal counties (data),
however significant resources in area.
·
Louisiana: limited assessment
available (data).
Mississippi Rural
Water (MRWA) reports 60-75 technical staff (including MS, AL, and FL rural
water) and volunteers (also including MS, FL, and AL) have moved into three
most impacted coastal counties with an estimated 60 generators. Reporting wide degree of needs; from
completely destroyed systems – to systems with most lift stations inoperable –
to some with restored water supply. We
have not seen a comprehensive assessment of coastal counties, but have reports
of MRWA teams assisting in many systems including: Hancock, Moss Pointe,
Diamond Head, and Bay St. Louis.
Louisiana
reports that EPA and field teams have been meeting all morning to go over
today’s efforts (11:00 am, Wed.) and EPA has indicated an additional 30 EPA
personal are moving into state to assist with blanket assessments. We are trying to determine the plans for
providing assistance, generators, and/or resources as a result of assessments –
and determine any staging area to collect and deploy generators.
Alabama
Rural Water (ARWA) reports all utilities except two have been restored (with
the caveat there could be isolated systems that have not been assessed). This assessment from
earlier in the week is still largely current.
As reported below, Bayou La Batre and Dauphin Island near Mobile
received significant structural damage.
Both have limited service from generated power. Some portion of service area is
unserviceable (destroyed). Leaks have
been a constant concern in stabilizing the water supplies in each system. Local operators have been working round the
clock, some living with their families in tents. Rural water staff have been assisting in reliving these local
operators, finding leaks, monitoring wells, fueling generators, etc. A large ship was pushed through a major line
in Bayou La Batre causing significant damage.
Both communities had been on boil water alerts, however we are not
current on their status for boil alerts.
ARWA has 12-14 staff and
generators in Mississippi and possibly transporting 100kW generator to Bayou
Liberty Rural Water.
9/6/2005 11:13 PM
Mississippi Rural
Water (MRWA) has complied this database of
communities and their status. As
indicated the database lists available resources (namely power generators and
circuit rider on-site assistance) available and which communities are in need
and which communities are using resources.
MRWA reports significant progress in restoring pressure to numerous
water supplies south of I-20. Water
supplies in the three counties (Hancock, Jackson, and Harrison) most
severely impacted are still assumed to be largely non-functioning,
however we have not received any detailed assessment of this assumption. MRWA reports that civic personal
infrastructure is often not available in these counties. Of the water supplies impacted, but not in
the mentioned three counties, MRWA approximately 95% of the approximately 416
water supplies have pressure – and MRWA is starting to change their focus to
assisting in the restoration of waste water service (for example, Moss
Point Waste Water is reported to have loss power in 58 of their 60 lift
stations and in need of assistance).
MRWA reports that once power is restored they are able to move power
generators to new communities. MRWA is
transitioning to a new staging ground located at Perry Central High School near
New Augusta. MRWA has over 30
generators distributed in the field and moving them ever further south as power
restoration is moving south. Field
reports indicate confusion with assistance from FEMA and state agencies. Most impacted utilities are under boil water
alerts. Most water supplies were able
to restore pressure with internal resources.
It appears volunteers from Florida Rural Water and Alabama Rural Water
have concentrated their assistance in Mississippi.
Reports from Louisiana
indicate EPA Region 6 is overseeing a joint operation of state DHH personal,
other state primacy staff, USDA, rural water, etc. It appears this operation is blanketing the state with on-site
contacts to all water supplies (regardless if they lost pressure or reporting
no contamination of wells) to gauge status of water service (see assessment form
which needs to be approved by a state agency or EPA personal). The operation has started in the least
impacted areas of the state and moving to the more impacted as each community
is contacted on site. The operation is
relying on this state
assessment. However, further
reporting is showing most communities that were assumed to have loss pressure
on this list did not. For example, on
Tuesday (9/6/05) the operation conducted 49 site visits to water
systems with the following results (code key):
·
of the 37 CWS visited by 14 two man teams 4 were
inoperable; OK-8, NEED-13, GenOK-8, INOP-4, GenLP-2, clear-2
·
of the 22 NTNCWS visited; out-6, INOP-7, NEED-3,
GenLP-5, GenOK-1.
One field team reports that
most of the communities they assessed, today, were able to pass the assessment
and provide bacteriological samples for testing (because they had not lost
power).
State sanitarians are also
pulling bacteriological samples from systems able to provide samples. One utility (Bayou
Liberty Water Association) was not able to provide samples to state agency
personal because they were in need of 3 small generators – and had only one
operator and two local volunteers trying to recover the 6,000 tap utility from
serious damage.
In addition to the
statewide plan to assess the need to retain boil water orders; ad-hoc reports
have indicated assistance is being provided to communities. For example in Livingston Parrish, LRWA
Circuit Rider found much of the parish’s utilities without energy immediately
following the hurricane. After
coordinating with local officials including fire officials and parish emergency
offices to target the most severely impacted utilities, the circuit rider was
able to communicate with those operators via Nex-Tel (all phone communication
were lost). Unable to procure water
bladders from FEMA or emergency organizations, he was able to find
approximately 20 water storage tanks and a colleague with a flatbed tow truck
and started delivering the filled large potable water storage containers to at
least seven communities (Port Vincent, Paradise Ponte Island, Springfield, Head
of Island, Killian, Bayview, and Vincent Acres). Working round the clock to keep the containers filled (ten hour
supply), the pressure in the water systems was maintained. The tow-truck operator was able to lift the
main container on the truck high enough to create a siphon to fill the
container left on site.
09/04/2005 9:56 PM
Louisiana
Rural Water reports the following groups met today to plan aid communities experiences
loss of water pressure (energy loss); state health department, EPA Region 6,
and USDA regional staff. Staging at a
command post in the Town of Livingston the will assemble 30 teams to assist
communities with disinfection, flushing, power, sampling, etc.
(09/04/2005 11:31 AM)
Louisiana
Rural Water reports the last assessment from their state agency. For those systems shown to have been
restored on 8/30/05, a message requesting confirmation by regional staff has
been left on appropriate voicemail.
Total Population Served = 1,553,373
Yes* = assuming systems lost pressure
Total Number of Systems assumed to have lost pressure = 385
(09/04/2005 11:31 AM)
Florida
Rural Water reports that Gainesville Regional Utilities, City of Stuart, and
Toho Utility (larger systems just outside Orlando/Kissimmee) started for MRWA office
Saturday and should have arrived late in that afternoon and are prepared to
travel to southern LA upon request from LRWA.
They will base out of Jackson, MS.
This delegation from Florida is bringing generators, fuel buffalos,
electricians, maintenance crews, water treatment and water distribution
operators and line installations crews, backhoes, pipe, fittings, other
treatment supplies. Also, an aid truck
with other parts, food, etc. is also coming out stocked from FSAWWA Mac
council. Mount Pleasant, SC, and other
utilities from Carolinas are also coming.
These systems will stay until work is done, or replacements from their
utilities or others arrive. FRWA will
bring out as many experienced FRWA staff as needed after those needs are
determined and will rotate staff, as needed and has already sent out 2 large
generators to MRWA. Staging area is MRWA office where systems will meet to be
deployed to damaged utilities. Crews go
to Pasgolua, Gulfport, Biolxi, Laurel, Hattesburg as they have asked for help,
made request to Fl EOC. Crews will work
to restore water service before turning to Wastewater side. Additional Florida systems arriving Tuesday
include--Jacksonville Electric Authority (8 fully experienced crews fully
equipped), City of St Petersburg, City of Ft Lauderdale, Orange County-Orlando,
Orlando Utilities Commission, Tampa Bay Water, Charlotte Harbor Water
Association, South Walton Utilities, Destin Water users, Escambia County
Utilities, City of Atlantic Beach, Palm Coast, City of Tallahassee, City of
Winter Park, Cocoa Beach, Port St. Lucie, Martin County, Seacoast Utilities
(Palm Beach area).
(9/3/2005 10:38 PM)
From Alabama
Rural Water Association an example of reestablishing a water supply
- Bayou La Batre was back in operation yesterday by generator. However, during the night we experienced
main-line breaks which caused the tanks to begin dropping. The community was already under a boil water
alert. ARWA sent additional generators
and manpower today. Also the
community’s activated sludge plant with eight lift stations needs to be brought
back into operations as soon as the water situation is under control.
(9/3/2005 10:38 PM)
Two crews from Alabama
Rural Water Association have arrived in Mississippi and delivering generators
to systems south of Jackson, Mississippi.
Yesterday, ARWA provided a generator to Perry County, Mississippi. ARWA has three crews (approximately 12
people) with generators and fuel ready to assist next week. Louisiana
Rural Water Association reports they now have access to some
parishes.
(9/2/2005 10:38 PM)
Louisiana
Rural Water Association reports 434 water systems affected by hurricane Katrina
(a population of 1,553,373 people). Of the 434 systems 383 systems have lost
pressure (no electricity).
(9/2/2005 5:08 PM)
Alabama
Rural Water Association has technicians in Bayou La Batre and Dauphin
Island near Mobile. Four systems remain
on boil water (Bayou La Batre, Dauphin Island, MCB Water System and Mt.
Vernon.) and other systems are operating by generators. Mississippi has been able to get a
commitment for additional fuel supplies.
Alabama is sending two crews (4 people each) plus generators and fuel to
Mississippi. Alabama Rural Water has
another crew of 8 plus generators and fuel ready to move to Mississippi
(9/2/2005 1:08 PM)
Mississippi
Rural Water Association reports that they are in need of large
generators for water supplies - and encourage anyone with large generators to
call the MRWA office to be paired with a community in need. They have a list
communities needing assistance (this list
has been updated however their internet access is still down)
(9/2/2005 10:38 AM)
Louisiana Rural
Water Association (LRWA) is assisting the state in assessing and providing
assistance to all of the water supplies reporting loss of pressure. It appears the triage is assessing which
supplies are recoverable and their immediacy.
This is the
state’s list of community water
supplies (CWS) reporting loss of pressure (it does not include the smaller
public water supplies (PWS) in the proximity which are taking a lower priority
and could be in the range of 2,000 PWSs).
LRWA is organizing a staging ground in the Town of Livingston just
outside the impacted area. Also, LRWA
has a coordinated list of available generators, technical, disinfecting
chemicals, and functioning laboratories (including portable testing labs) for
microbial testing. LRWA is working with
the state to reduce any testing delays and waiting periods necessary to
disinfect drinking water supplies before they can be returned to public
operation. It is likely they will continue
boil orders after disinfection and pressure is restored.
(9/1/2005 5:08 PM)
Mississippi
Rural Water Association is assessing all of the water supplies in the state in
order to coordinate the transport of needed generators and assistance to
impacted water utilities. This appears to be
the most current assessment. This
document is scanned because MRWA’s internet access is down.
(9/1/2005 2:14 PM)
Mississippi
Rural Water Association (MRWA) reports that as many as 900 water utilities have
lost power and operations. MRWA has
been in contact with approximately 140 of the utilities (and estimates
contacting as many as 100 per day in the coming days). MRWA is coordinating the effort to provide
generators and technical personal to the impacted utilities from utilities in
northern
(9/1/2005 1:24 PM)
Florida
Rural Water Associations (FRWA) reports that they have 21 larger utilities
organized with technical personal, expert emergency responders, 40 generators,
parts, electricians, generator repair experts, fuel trucks, etc. ready to move into
the staging ground in Mississippi.
These coordinated 21 utilities are waiting for a “Mission Number” before
dispatching. This mission number allows
their costs (in-kind contributions to impacted utilizes) to be reimbursed by
FEMA. We are requesting assistance in
securing a mission number from FEMA.
(9/1/2005 1:08 PM)
Alabama
Rural Water Association (ARWA) reports that approximately 25-30 water utilities
were without power (and operations).
ARWA was in immediate contact with each of the utilities and have
coordinated the delivery of generators (including very large capacity genitors)
and technical personal to all of the impacted utilities from other utilities in
the state whose power and operations were not impacted. ARWA reports that power and operations have
been restored in all the impacted utilities.
This
spreadsheet lists all the impacted water supplies in
(9/1/2005 1:00 PM)
All rural water
associations report shortages of fuel for transport and diesel fuel for
generators. However, all states have
indicated the shortages have not limited their ability to respond.
