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Water and Wastewater All-Hazards Boot Camp
Recovery
Recovery
Recovery
There are definite differences between that of a response phase and a recovery phase. When you are in the response phase, your primary concern is life safety. And that's for anyone, any first responder. And utility companies are becoming those first responders.
How are you going to deal with an outage? Whether it's your computer systems, whether it's your plant operations. How are you going to deal with that? And you have to think very quickly, "I'll refer back to my Emergency Operations Plan." Or, "I'll refer back to my Emergency Response Plan."
Your recovery plan on the other side – you are now starting to rebuild. You are now starting to put things in place. You are looking at your unmet needs. You're looking at things that are in desperate need of repair based on whatever the occurrence just was. And you're looking at how quickly you can get back and become fully operational.