DECISION SUPPORT TOOL FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF DEBRIS FROM HOMELAND SECURITY INCIDENTS© IWWG International Waste Working Group (10/2007)
Pollution incidents of national significance can be caused by industrial accidents; natural disasters such as hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes, terrorist attacks; weapons of mass destruction; and disease outbreaks impacting the safety of the U.S. food supply. These incidents require an integrated response from federal, state, and local government. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has updated the National Response Plan (NRP) and the National Incident Management System for responding to Homeland Security incidents of national significance. Within the NRP, the DHS has identified 15 National Planning Scenarios that every federal, state and local emergency response agency is to create emergency plans for. Each of these 15 scenarios involves decontamination and disposal of contaminated material.
INTEGRATED URBAN DRAINAGE TREATMENT AND SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT FOR DECENTRALIZED TREATMENT SYSTEMS© IWWG International Waste Working Group (10/2007)
As of the year 2000 approximately 50% of the world’s population lives in metropolitan (urban and suburban) areas and these metropolitan demographics will increase to 60% of the population by the year 2025. In the United States the rate of immigrant and non-immigrant population growth over the last decade has become the largest of any industrialized country. The United States is adding population at a rate of 3 million individuals per year (by analogy the creation of a metropolitan population the size of Chicago every year) and within the decade the United States will surpass a total population of 300 million. In addition, the global trends of western societies are ever increasingly changing from rural to metropolitan demographics.