Transcript Renewable Energy: Is your community ready?

 Statewide association for municipally-
owned and -0perated utilities
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Electric
Natural Gas
Water
Wastewater
Telecommunications
 176 communities operating one or
more municipal utility systems
 Provides programs and services to
support municipal systems
 Headquartered in McPherson, Kansas
since 1928
 62 municipal gas systems
 Community-owned and -operated
 Predominantly small systems
 Range: 5,100 to 50 customers
 Transmission only (e.g., municipal
power plants)
 Geographically diverse
 Some with limited resources and
staffing
 Often operated in conjunction with
other utility systems
 Target group
 Municipally-owned and
operated natural gas systems
 Technical assistance
 Emergency response plans
 Review and revise as appropriate
 Kansas Mutual Aid Program for
Utilities (KSMAP)
 Program promotion
 Target 100% participation
 Assist with registration and data
entry
 Training
• Community and system safety
• System need
• State regulatory interest
• Kansas Corporation
Commission –
Office of Pipeline Safety
• Concern about small systems
and ability to respond and
recover
• KMU approached about
working with municipal systems
• Recent disasters impacting Kansas
• Tornados
• Greensburg , Kansas
• Chapman, Kansas
• Southeast Kansas Flooding
• Winter Storms and Ice
• impacting 2/3 of the state
Photo Courtesy of City of Neodesha
 Tornado hit on Friday May 5th
at 9:45PM
 Classified as an EF-5 Tornado
 Greensburg was in the direct
path of the tornado and
ninety-five percent of City
was hit
 Tornado was 1.7 miles wide
with winds of 205 MPH
Photo Courtesy of Bill Calloway, Clay Center
 Flooding June 26-30, 2007
 Counties receiving as much as 20
inches of rain
 Rainfall came at 2-3 inches of
rain per hour
 Rivers and creeks began leaving
their banks and overspreading
much of Southeast Kansas
 Refinery oil spill into Verdigris
River at Coffeyville
Photo Courtesy of City of Iola
 Freezing rain started on
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December 9-10, 2007
Significant accumulation across
much of the state
Downed limbs and power lines
Widespread damage stressed
state utility crew availability
Over 200,000 without power
Photo Courtesy of City of Holton
 Tornado hit on Wednesday,
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June 11, 2008, at 10:20 PM
Classified as an EF-3 Tornado
Tornado was 1/2 mile wide with
winds of 165 MPH
Tornado touched down in the
Southwest corner of town
moving through the center of
town
50-60% of community damaged
or destroyed
Photo Courtesy of City of Chapman Website
 Definition:
 Typically, a short-term, quick
response of emergency services to
restore critical utility operations
 In Kansas we characterize it as
“neighbor helping neighbor”
 For this program, we see it as
“bringing the pieces together”
• Utilities require specialized resources and
qualified personnel to sustain operations
• Utilities must typically provide their own response
in the immediate aftermath of disaster
• Response agencies also rely on utility operations
• Disasters can impact damaged utility employees
and their families
• Large scale disasters can quickly outstrip a system’s
ability to respond and recover on its own
• Neighboring utility systems can respond with
qualified professionals – “neighbor helping
neighbor”
• Agreements must be in place prior to an incident
for federal reimbursement eligibility
• Recent disasters demonstrated need
 Protect public health, safety, and welfare
 Secure the area and utility assets
 Assess the damage
 Determine priorities for recovery
 Restoration and clean-up
 Kansas Corporation Commission (KCC)
 Kansas Department of Health & Environment (KDHE)
 Kansas Municipal Utilities (KMU)
 Kansas Rural Water Association (KRWA)
 American Water Works Association – Kansas Section
(AWWA)
 Kansas Water Environment Association (KWEA)
• Organization of response
• Need state coordinator familiar with utilities
• Need emergency management officials
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knowledgeable about utilities
Widespread or intensive disaster damage
needs extensive coordination
Communication and locating capabilities
Identification for mutual aid personnel
Mutual aid responder rotation for extended
recovery
Education on emergency management
practices (ERP, NIMS, ICS)
• Development process
• Organize committee
• KCC/KDHE/KDEM/KMU/KRWA/AWWA-KS/KWEA
• Identify needs and issues
• Review other state’s programs and national models
• Prepare program agreements and materials for
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adoption by various organizations and utility systems
Develop resource inventory/electronic database
Organize coordination efforts
Provide training (mutual aid and NIMS)
Activate program as needed
 Participation is voluntary
 Provides a single program to access resources
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statewide
Establishes agreement and protocols for
responding with trained individuals and
specialized equipment
Can assist in initial phases of a disaster until
additional aid can arrive
Increases emergency preparedness and
coordination
No obligation to respond if resources are
needed in own utility
 Experienced help available in
extensive disaster situations
 KSMAP will dispatch response
team to assist a community with
coordination efforts
 Experienced professionals
 Utility management and operation
 Engineering
 Disaster assessment and
coordination
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Have an emergency response plan in place
Train employees (ERP, NIMS, ICS)
Have good maps
Have vender list available
Location of critical machinery, material
and system components
Identify critical needs and locations for
service restoration
Proper identification of personnel and
mission
Identify locations for accommodations for
outside assistance
Know who and when to call for assistance
and reporting
101½ N. Main Street
McPherson, Kansas 67460
620-241-1423 ph  620-241-7928 fx
www.kmunet.org