RAPID/Collaborative Research: Implications of Social Distancing Policies on Water Infrastructure Systems

快速/合作研究：社交距离政策对水基础设施系统的影响

基本信息

批准号：
2032429
负责人：
Jessica Kaminsky
金额：
$ 2.07万
依托单位：
University of Washington
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2020
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2020-05-15 至 2022-10-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2032429&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
RAPID Collaborative Research Implications Social

项目摘要

This Rapid Response Research (RAPID) grant will demonstrate how drinking water services provided by water utilities have been impacted by the social distancing policies undertaken by much of the nation during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic. By design, social distancing policies have caused immense change in human behavior, as families shelter in place and industrial and commercial sectors pause operations. One of the many consequences of these changes is a significant spatial, temporal, and volumetric change in water use within municipal water distribution systems. These changes have the potential to substantially impact water age and water quality both within the distribution system and within homes and other buildings. In addition, utilities are facing unprecedented workforce, financial, and logistical challenges because of the pandemic as they respond to the unknown and emerging consequences of social distancing policies. As such, this research has the potential to prevent infrastructure asset damage and negative public health impacts in communities with piped water that have undertaken social distancing. Accordingly, and, as warranted by results, this project will create technical guidance for utilities to proactively mitigate these potential negative consequences.In this research, existing water meter data and new interview data will be used to identify changes in water use patterns associated with various social distancing regimes. Next, the impacts of these changes on the pressure and water quality in distribution systems will be evaluated via hydraulic modeling and water quality sampling and analysis. The hydraulic modeling will identify and locate potential water distribution problems in a university campus, a residential neighborhood, and a primarily commercial, urban downtown. These data, coupled with physical, chemical, and microbiological water quality analyses, will provide vital new empirical knowledge of water infrastructure performance under social distancing conditions. Interview data from utilities around the nation will further validate findings and enable the generalization of results and potential mitigation strategies. In partnership with collaborating water utilities, these combined datasets will be integrated to create a range of possible future Impact Scenarios of social distancing for water distribution systems. The empirically validated hydraulic models will be used to determine the implications of each Impact Scenario on distribution system performance, and to test mitigation strategies that utilities can implement during anticipated future waves of the pandemic and social distancing. Broadly, this research builds engineering theory to link human patterns of water use to the performance and resilience of water distribution infrastructure.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这项快速响应研究（Rapid）赠款将证明水电提供的饮用水服务如何受到2020年冠状病毒大流行期间全国大部分地区的社会疏远政策的影响。通过设计，社会距离政策导致了人类行为的巨大变化，因为家庭庇护所以及工业和商业部门暂停行动。这些变化的众多后果之一是市政供水系统内用水的显着空间，时间和体积变化。这些变化有可能影响分配系统以及房屋和其他建筑物内的水年龄和水质。此外，公用事业面临着前所未有的劳动力，财务和后勤挑战，因为大流行对社会疏远政策的未知和新兴后果作出反应。因此，这项研究有可能防止基础设施资产损害损害和对经过社会疏远的管道水的社区负面影响。因此，由于结果的保证，该项目将为公用事业提供技术指导，以主动减轻这些潜在的负面后果。在这项研究中，现有的水表数据和新的访谈数据将用于确定与各种社会距离制度相关的用水方式变化。接下来，这些变化对分配系统压力和水质的影响将通过液压建模以及水质采样和分析进行评估。液压建模将在大学校园，住宅区和主要商业城市市中心识别并找到潜在的水分配问题。这些数据，再加上物理，化学和微生物水质分析，将为社会疏远条件下的水基础设施表现提供至关重要的新经验知识。来自全国公用事业公司的访谈数据将进一步验证结果，并能够概括结果和潜在的缓解策略。这些合并的数据集将与合作的水电图合作，以创建一系列可能的未来影响水分分配系统社会距离的影响方案。经验验证的液压模型将用于确定每个影响方案对分配系统性能的影响，并测试公用事业在大流行和社会疏远的未来浪潮中可以实施的缓解策略。从广义上讲，这项研究建立了工程理论，以将人类用水模式与水分配基础设施的绩效和弹性联系起来。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛影响的评估评估标准来通过评估来支持的。

项目成果

期刊论文数量（12）

专著数量（0）

科研奖励数量（0）

会议论文数量（0）

专利数量（0）

Water and Wastewater Systems and Utilities: Challenges and Opportunities during the COVID-19 Pandemic

DOI：
10.1061/(asce)wr.1943-5452.0001373
发表时间：
2021-05-01
期刊：
JOURNAL OF WATER RESOURCES PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT
影响因子：
3.1
作者：
Berglund, Emily Zechman;Thelemaque, Nathalie;Kadinski, Leonid
通讯作者：
Kadinski, Leonid

Small Drinking Water Utilities’ Resilience: The Case of the COVID-19 Pandemic

小型饮用水公用事业公司的复原力：以 COVID-19 疫情为例

DOI：
10.1021/acsestwater.2c00641
发表时间：
2023
期刊：
ACS ES&T Water
影响因子：
0
作者：
Thelemaque, Nathalie;Spearing, Lauryn A.;Faust, Kasey M.;Kaminsky, Jessica A.
通讯作者：
Kaminsky, Jessica A.

Modeling in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Overcoming the Water Sector’s Data Struggles to Realize the Potential of Hydraulic Models

COVID-19 大流行中的建模：克服水务部门的数据难题，实现水力模型的潜力

DOI：
10.1061/(asce)wr.1943-5452.0001561
发表时间：
2022
期刊：
Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management
影响因子：
3.1
作者：
Tiedmann, Helena R.;Spearing, Lauryn A.;Sela, Lina;Kinney, Kerry;Kirisits, Mary Jo;Katz, Lynn E.;Kaminsky, Jessica;Faust, Kasey M.
通讯作者：
Faust, Kasey M.

Water Utilities and the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Review of Pandemic-Related Research