AWWA J100-Operational Guide : 2021

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This guide to AWWA Standard J100 explains how to set and achieve goals, optimize plantperformance on a continuous basis, and make ongoing improvements to assess and management risk for your water andwastewater systems. It incorporates new threat guidance and updated versions of the nonmandatory appendices into aguidance document that aligns with the updated standard. This guide is aimed at giving background and purpose to theprocess of completing a J100 analysis, complete with a case study as an example. The threats covered includecontamination, cyber, flood, hurricanes, ice storms, earthquakes, tornadoes, and wildfires.

The originalidea for the operational guide series to accompany the utility management StandardDetails came from utility managerswho participated in a two-year pilot project that was conducted and supported by the American Water WorksAssociation (AWWA) Utility Quality Programs Committee, the AWWA Accreditation Committee, and nearly 30 utilityprofessionals from more than 10 North American utilities. The pilot project assessed the applicability andpracticality of the series of AWWA utility management StandardDetails by working with two utilities—Birmingham (Ala.)Water Works and Sewer Board and Washington County (Va.) Service Authority—and a team of volunteers fromutilities, consulting firms, and other organizations.

During the pilot process, the utility managersrequested that AWWA develop some type of guidance or how-to documents to go along with the managementStandardDetails. These guidance documents would serve two purposes: one, help utility managers understand thepurpose and function of these new StandardDetails, and two, help them implement and incorporate the StandardDetails intoeveryday operations. From this suggestion the series of operational guides was conceived.