Please join the Eastern North Carolina Chapter of InfraGard at our next bi-monthly meeting on February 19, 2020 from 1-4pm. We will have two excellent speakers that will be presenting on Emergency Preparedness and Response in the Water Sector.

Presentation Summary:

The presentation will be discussing how water utilities across North Carolina and nationally support one another during and following water emergencies to ensure the uninterrupted delivery of potable water to their customers, and in the case of water service disruptions, to recovery rapidly. There will be discussion of the mutual aid organization, NC WaterWARN, and how this organization facilitates water sector emergency response collaboration. Kenny will also provide real-life examples of how NC WaterWARN helped many North Carolina water utilities respond to and recovery from hurricane Florence.

We will also discuss resources that water utilities can use to stay abreast of emerging threats and hazards, and approaches for maintaining real-time situational awareness (NCEM WebEOC, NCDOT TIMS, InfraGard, DHS, WaterISAC and the role of a water utility Emergency Manager. . Both presenters will also provide real-life examples of how NC WaterWARN helped many North Carolina water utilities respond to and recovery from hurricane Florence.

Presenters Bio:

Kenny Waldroup is an Assistant Public Utilities Director with Raleigh Water and has 27-years in the water and wastewater industry. In addition to leading Raleigh Water’s Incident Preparedness team, his current responsibilities include administrative and financial services, strategic planning, regulatory compliance, legislative outreach, workplace safety, organization improvement, and resource development and protection.
Before his tenure with the City, he served as the Town of Zebulon’s Public Works Director from 1996 to 2006 and as a water treatment plant operator in various Western Carolina communities. As such he has direct experience with our industry’s response to such seminal events as Hurricanes Fran, Floyd, Matthew and Florence as well as numerous other natural and man-man disasters, events and plain old ‘bad days’.
He served on the North Carolina Environmental Management Commission from 2003 to 2009, is a past proud recipient of the J.A. Younts Award from the North Carolina Rural Water Association and past Chair of NCWaterWARN, where he has worked with the best in our industry to coordinate statewide water and wastewater emergency efforts. In his spare time he is the Chair-elect of the North Carolina American Water Works Association and Water Environment Association.
Kenny is a graduate of North Carolina State University, is a licensed Professional Engineer with the State of North Carolina and holds certifications in water treatment, distribution system operation and cross connection control.

Eric Hatcher is the Security & Emergency Manager for Cape Fear Public Utility Authority (CFPUA) in Wilmington, NC. As the incumbent, in 2009 he created the utility’s all-hazard emergency response plan and manages two dozen incident action plans. These plans encompass mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery activities to both natural and man-made incidents. He is a strong proponent of the water sector’s use of the National Incident Management System and the Incident Command System (NIMS/ICS) Model for crisis response. During his tenure, he has served on a number of committees: NCWaterWARN Executive Committee; New Hanover Local Emergency Planning Committee; and the NC AWWA-WEA Risk Management Committee. He has presented at several national webinars for EPA, NOAA, and in-state associations encouraging water/wastewater utility preparedness. Eric is a retired US Coast Guard officer with nearly 28 years of service. He primarily served in surface operations, planning, and intelligence positions in six coastal states. Highlights of his career included response to TWA Flight 800 crash off Long Island, NY, and multiple mass-migration events from Cuba, Haiti, and Dominican Republic. Most of his career involved search & rescue and counter-narcotic operations in the Caribbean.

Hosted at Cisco for Wednesday February 19th from 1:00pm – 4:00pm
Cisco Systems, Building #5
7025 Kit Creek Road
Morrisville, NC 27560