GOLDEN GUARDIAN 2008 SOSAFE

Golden Guardian 2008 Overview Golden Guardian: annual state exercise with different focus each year –Sponsored by Office of Homeland Security Southern San Andreas Fault exercise (SOSAFE) CalTech, USGS providing seismology analyses 7.8 Earthquake from Salton Sea to Gorman Golden Guardian: annual state exercise with different focus each year –Sponsored by Office of Homeland Security Southern San Andreas Fault exercise (SOSAFE) CalTech, USGS providing seismology analyses 7.8 Earthquake from Salton Sea to Gorman

Map of SOSAFE Earthquake

Golden Guardian 2008 Overview San Andreas Fault at Cajon Pass –Telecom (fiber optic cables) –Rail lines (chlorine supplies from Henderson, NV) –Natural gas pipelines –Electric power lines –Colorado River Aqueduct San Andreas Fault at Cajon Pass –Telecom (fiber optic cables) –Rail lines (chlorine supplies from Henderson, NV) –Natural gas pipelines –Electric power lines –Colorado River Aqueduct

Exercise Objectives Evaluate Metropolitan’s ability to communicate in telecom outage – EOC, ICCs – Member agencies, outside agencies Evaluate Metropolitan’s ability to respond to damage at multiple sites Evaluate Metropolitan’s ability to respond to widespread damage – Availability of critical resources, including chemicals

Exercise Objectives (cont.) Evaluate Metropolitan’s ability to communicate in telecom outage – EOC, ICCs – Member agencies, outside agencies Evaluate long-term economic impact of widespread disaster – Additional costs for alternative sources – Replacement of facilities and equipment – Possible reduction in water sales – Other business impacts

Damage Scenario (Posited for Exercise) Colorado River Aqueduct – Three locations near Whitewater break – Member agencies, outside agencies California Aqueduct – Devil Canyon flow to Santa Ana Valley Pipeline fails – East Branch of aqueduct has numerous breaks Pipeline Failures – Rialto Feeder – Upper Feeder at Santa Ana River crossing

Damage Scenario (cont.) Treatment plants –Flocculators fail in 1/3 of basins at all plants –Sedimentation basin sludge removal equipment fails in ¼ of basins at Jensen, 1/3 of basins at all other plants –Washwater tanks (both) at Weymouth fail –Alum tanks at Jensen fail –Offsite power fails at all plants –Slope failure at Diemer damages WWRP#2, resulting in loss of water from basins

Damage Scenario (cont.) Union Station –No major structural failures –Data Center, Telecom Room problems –Microwave dish on roof out of alignment –Loss of outside power

Agency Participation MARS (Member Agency Response System) MARS (Member Agency Response System) – Metropolitan Water District coordinating with all participating member agencies Eastern MWD – City of Perris asked to coordinate with Eastern – Water, Wastewater, Reclaimed Water

Agency Participation (cont.) Long Beach, City of – Activate Department Operations Center – 2 Shifts for DOC and windshield surveys – Shift change at noon – Friday, 11/14 – Potable Water Distribution Plan

Agency Participation (cont.) Los Angeles Dept. of Water and Power – Multiple exercises leading up to GG08 – Evacuation exercise May 7 Hope Street building (2,300 – 2,500 employees) – Full-scale exercise July 16 (~3,000 employees)

Agency Participation (cont.) MWDOC/ WEROC – Will activate one EOC – Coordinating with Orange County Operational Area; will have liaison at OC OA EOC – Day 1 – 9 special districts, 6 city departments doing at least functional exercises – 4 agencies replacing 2 interties as interagency capital projects to practice mutual assistance

Agency Participation (cont.) MWDOC/ WEROC (cont.) – Monday, 11/17 – Duck and cover, evacuation, Continuity of Operations exercise based on new manual – Tuesday, 11/18 - Multi-agency County tabletop on sustained operations

Agency Participation (cont.) SDCWA SDCWA – Coordinating with San Diego County Operational Area; will have liaison at SD OA EOC – San Diego Co. - mass care exercise based on assumption thousands will evacuate to San Diego Co. – San Diego Co. plans to break dams

Agency Participation (cont.) Western MWD of Riverside County Western MWD of Riverside County – Possible pipe breaks:  Mills Treatment Plant (Met) effluent line  SARI (Santa Ana Regional Interceptor) line (Santa Ana Watershed Project Authority) – Corona Feeder, 60” pipe 15’ underground  will tie into Mills  now empty  plan to use for shelter

Agency Participation (cont.) ERNIE (Emergency Response Network of Inland Empire) ERNIE (Emergency Response Network of Inland Empire) – Exercising separate from San Bernardino County – Coordinating with CalWARN, CDPH

Other Agencies CA Department of Water Resources CA Department of Water Resources – Coordinate for damage to Devil Canyon and California Aqueduct CA Office of Emergency Services CA Department of Public Health California Utilities Emergency Association (CUEA) Water/Wastewater Agency Response Network (WARN) – CUEA and WARN to practice mutual aid/assistance

CalTech /USGS Lessons Learned Scientists stocking more water at home! Largest emergency response exercise in the country to date (Bigger than Top-Off)