SECTION VI - SECURITY AND OPERATIONS The tables in this section will help you identify potential security and operational vulnerabilities. Answer all of the questions in and then complete to identify and evaluate potential corrective actions. To help you protect all your customers and assets from possible intentional harm, do not limit your considerations in this section to your critical assets. Include all of your potentially vulnerable infrastructure even if it has not been designated a critical asset or single point of failure. Table VI-1 Security & Operational Vulnerabilities QUESTION ANSWER Has your emergency response plan been updated within 1 Yes No N/A the last 12 months? Is access to all components of your system restricted 2 Yes No N/A to authorized personnel only? Are warning signs (tampering, unauthorized access, etc.) 3 posted on all components of your water system? (For Yes No N/A example, well houses and storage tanks.) Do you have emergency contact information posted at all 4 Yes No N/A water system components? Are facilities (water plant, pump house, storage tanks, etc) 5 fenced, and are well heads, manholes, hatches, and gates Yes No N/A locked and routinely checked where appropriate? Are all doors, windows, and other points of human access 6 Yes No N/A kept closed and locked? Are tank hatches, roof hatches, etc, all locked or 7 Yes No N/A otherwise secured from intrusion? Is the area around the components of your water system 8 Yes No N/A free of objects that may be used for breaking and entering? Is there external lighting around the key components of 9 Yes No N/A your water system? Are all entries to your system easily observable by 10 Yes No N/A system personnel? 11 Is your surface water source secured with fences or gates? Yes No N/A Do water system personnel visit the surface water source 12 Yes No N/A regularly? Do you routinely inspect your source intake, buildings, 13 Yes No N/A storage tanks, equipment, and other critical components? Do you have an alarm system that will detect unauthorized 14 Yes No N/A entry or attempted entry at critical components? 15 Are alarms provided within all structures? Yes No N/A 16 Are your wellheads sealed properly? Yes No N/A
SECTION VI - SECURITY AND OPERATIONS The tables in this section will help you identify potential security and operational vulnerabilities. Answer all of the questions in and then complete to identify and evaluate potential corrective actions. To help you protect all your customers and assets from possible intentional harm, do not limit your considerations in this section to your critical assets. Include all of your potentially vulnerable infrastructure even if it has not been designated a critical asset or single point of failure. Table VI-1 Security & Operational Vulnerabilities QUESTION ANSWER 1 Has your emergency response plan been updated within the last 12 months? Yes No N/A 2 Is access to all components of your system restricted to authorized personnel only? Yes No N/A 3 Are warning signs (tampering, unauthorized access, etc.) posted on all components of your water system? (For example, well houses and storage tanks.) Yes No N/A 4 Do you have emergency contact information posted at all water system components? Yes No N/A 5 Are facilities (water plant, pump house, storage tanks, etc) fenced, and are well heads, manholes, hatches, and gates locked and routinely checked where appropriate? Yes No N/A 6 Are all doors, windows, and other points of human access kept closed and locked? Yes No N/A 7 Are tank hatches, roof hatches, etc, all locked or otherwise secured from intrusion? Yes No N/A 8 Is the area around the components of your water system free of objects that may be used for breaking and entering? Yes No N/A 9 Is there external lighting around the key components of your water system? Yes No N/A 10 Are all entries to your system easily observable by system personnel? Yes No N/A 11 Is your surface water source secured with fences or gates? Yes No N/A 12 Do water system personnel visit the surface water source regularly? Yes No N/A 13 Do you routinely inspect your source intake, buildings, storage tanks, equipment, and other critical components? Yes No N/A 14 Do you have an alarm system that will detect unauthorized entry or attempted entry at critical components? Yes No N/A 15 Are alarms provided within all structures? Yes No N/A 16 Are your wellheads sealed properly? Yes No N/A
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