WISE SC Committee

November 4, 2002 – The WISE SC (Water Infrastructure Security Enhancement Standards Committee) met in Washington, D.C. on the Monday of the 150th Anniversary meeting.

Basil Steele with ASIS and Sandia National Labs conducted a workshop on Sandia’s Risk Assessment Methodology for Water (RAM-W).

Items discussed:

• A proposal for $1.5 million per year for 3 years to be sent to EPA.
  
  
• EWRI will discuss with WEF and AWWA the procedure for modifying those publications that WISE SC wants to alter.
  
  
• Three subcommittees were established the Wastewater Stormwater Subcommittee, the Methodology & Characteristics Subcommittee, and the Water Suppy Subcommittee.
  
  
• The WISE SC’s publications will be directed toward malevolent acts.
  
  
• Representatives from the City of Seattle will be invited to attend the next WISE SC meeting to discuss the problems they had implementing RAM-W1 (Risk Assessment Methodology) and RAM-W2.

The next WISE SC meeting will be in Philadelphia on June 22, 2003. For more information visit the new WISE SC webpage at http://www.ewrinstitute.org/wisesc.html.