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Austin Water officials say winter readiness, new tools limited outages during recent storm
Summary
Austin Water briefed the Climate, Water, Environment & Parks Committee on its "all-hazards" emergency management program, saying training, incident-command procedures and investments such as VOC software, water tankers and added generators helped preserve service during a recent winter event.
Austin Water officials told the City Council's Climate, Water, Environment & Parks Committee on Jan. 28 that the utility's all-hazards emergency management program and recent operational investments helped the system remain generally functional through a recent winter storm.
"We had a significant test of that readiness," said Shay Rawls Rolston, director of Austin Water, who opened the briefing. Rick Beeman, the utility's emergency management division manager, described an incident-management approach that uses the Incident Command System and VOC software for continuous emergency management, and said nearly 200 employees have training for incident management-team roles.
Why it matters: Officials said preparations made after the…
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