Salisbury Drinking Water Emergency Tabletop Exercise

Emergency exercises are an important step to ensure water utilities are prepared to deal with emergencies that threaten their missions. They are the most practical, efficient, and cost-effective way to prepare and improve emergency response plans. A significant benefit from emergency exercises is the opportunity for people to work together, practicing their roles and responsibilities and gaining emergency response proficiency.

Join us as we facilitate a group “tabletop exercise” to test communications and responses by the Salisbury Water Division, various town, county, and state agencies, emergency responders, and mutual aid providers. The emergency exercise scenario(s) selected (e.g., natural/extreme weather events, man-made emergencies) will threaten the systems’ critical assets and vital services. The scenario(s) selected will be based on the attending water systems.

Tabletop Exercise Agenda:

• Introductions and TTX Objectives
• TTX Orientation
• Drinking Water Emergency Scenario
• Lunch
• Hot Wash & Gap Analysis

Who Should Attend?
Public water utilities, public safety, public works, local/county, and state emergency management, state health and environmental departments, and others.

To sign up for this class, REGISTER ONLINE, or contact Jason Blais
This class is currently FULL, we are only accepting registrations for the Wait List.
Should a registered participant cancel, we will proceed through the Wait List and notify the next in line. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Date (please choose one):
February 20, 2025 (#2025-01)

Time:
Attendance: 7:45am - 8:00am
Class Time: 8:00 am - 3:00 AM (includes breaks and working lunch)

Location:
Salisbury Police Department - Emergency Meeting Room
181 Beach Rd
Salisbury, MA 01952

Class Fee (per registrant):
MassRWA Members: FREE
Non-Members: FREE

Agency Approval:
7.0 TCHs for MA Water and Wastewater operators

Instructor:
Tom Bahun is a Certified Instructional Trainer (CIT), with over 30 years of experience and expertise in developing, designing, and delivering water and wastewater safety, emergency response and operator certification training. He is well known for his fun and energetic training classes, which draw upon what his students already know. Tom’s focus is to lead his students through socially supported interactions to enhance learning and construct new understandings.

In addition to Tom’s vast training experience and abilities, he has a long history of helping water and wastewater systems with his technical and managerial knowledge and understanding. In addition to Tom’s training and consulting services provided through Tom’s Water Solutions LLC, he is a water systems operator overseeing drinking water treatment and distribution at Maine’s largest water and wastewater utility. He holds a State of Maine Class IV Water Treatment and Distribution Operator license and a Grade 5 Wastewater Treatment Operator license.


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