Water Quality Surveillance and Response

Water Quality Surveillance and Response System Exercise Development Toolbox

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Overview

The SRS Exercise Development Toolbox helps utilities and response partners design, develop, conduct, and evaluate SRS-related discussions and operations-based exercises. These exercises help to develop, teach, refine, and improve SRS procedures.

The toolbox allows utilities to:

  • Learn about SRS training programs
  • Develop realistic exercise scenarios
  • Design SRS discussion-based and operations-based exercises
  • Create exercise documents

The following screenshots are taken from the Exercise Development Toolbox. Click on a screenshot for a larger version.

Screen Shot of Tool Introduction

Screen shot for Module 1 for Exercise Development Tool

Screen shot of Step 3 of Exercise Development Tool

Screen shot of exercise development toolbox


System Requirements

To run EPA's SRS Exercise Development Toolbox, the following minimum system hardware and software requirements must be met:

  • Operating System: Windows 7 and 8
  • Microsoft Office: 2007 and above
  • Other software: Adobe Acrobat Reader
  • Disk space: 70 MB

Download and Installation Instructions

Download the Exercise Development Tool

After downloading EPA's SRS Exercise Development Toolbox:

  1. Open the setup file (SRSToolbox.exe) to launch the installer. If there are any security settings on the machine, click "Run" when prompted.
  2. Click "Next" on the following two screens to begin installation.
  3. A popup may ask you to install two files. Click "Install"
  4. Click "Next" on the following two screens. Then click "Install" and "Finish" when the installation is complete. Click "Finish" on the main installation screen. The Toolbox is now installed.

SRS EDT Installation and Troubleshooting Guide