Water Quality Surveillance and Response System Performance Evaluations | Water Quality Surveillance and Response

These reports present the results of a comprehensive technical evaluation of the Cincinnati Water Security Initiative (WSI) pilot. In addition to a report that describes the evaluation of the complete system, there are reports that provide a detailed evaluation of the six system components:

Online Water Quality Monitoring
Enhanced Security Monitoring
Customer Complaint Surveillance
Public Health Surveillance
Consequence Management
Sampling and Analysis

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WSI: System Evaluation of the Cincinnati Contamination Warning System Pilot (PDF)(161 pp, 2 MB)
Presents the results of a comprehensive technical evaluation of the Cincinnati WSI pilot, including an assessment of the operation, performance, and sustainability of the integrated system
WSI: Evaluation of the Water Quality Monitoring Component of the Cincinnati Contamination Warning System Pilot (PDF)(118 pp, 2 MB)
This component uses data collected from online sensors deployed at strategic locations in the distribution system to detect water quality anomalies.
WSI: Evaluation of the Enhanced Security Monitoring Component of the Cincinnati Contamination Warning System Pilot (PDF)(110 pp, 3 MB)
This component uses intrusion detection systems to detect security breaches at distribution system facilities that are vulnerable to contamination.
WSI:Evaluation of the Customer Complaint Surveillance Component of the Cincinnati Contamination Warning System Pilot (PDF)(101 pp, 2 MB)
This component monitors water quality complaint data to identify abnormally high volumes or spatial clustering of complaints that may be indicative of drinking water contamination.
WSI: Evaluation of the Public Health Surveillance Component of the Cincinnati Contamination Warning System Pilot (PDF)(147 pp, 3 MB)
This component involves the analysis of public health data to identify disease or illness in the population that might be attributable to contaminated drinking water.
WSI: Evaluation of the Consequence Management Component of the Cincinnati Contamination Warning System Pilot (PDF)(79 pp, 1000 K)
This component establishes procedures for responding to possible drinking water contamination incidents in order to minimize consequences to utilities and the public.
WSI: Evaluation of the Sampling and Analysis Component of the Cincinnati Contamination Warning System Pilot (PDF)(79 pp, 1 MB)
This component is activated during consequence management to help confirm or rule out possible water contamination through field and laboratory analyses of water samples.