Below are some resources - both documents and links - to help you stay current on issues related to COVID-19, and to help your utility as we all work through these unprecedented circumstances.

Resources from NJDEP

• Division of Water Supply & Geoscience Website: COVID-19 regarding drinking water (https://www.nj.gov/dep/watersupply)
• Templates and documents:
  
  • Distribution Sampling Guidance During COVID-19 Pandemic-01 (dated March 21, 2020)
  • NJDEP Revised Public NotificationTemplates with clarification language about the COVID-19 virus. These templates should be used during the COVID-19 pandemic for any emergency which advises customers to boil the water before drinking, cooking, and other potable water uses due to the potential for the water supply to be contaminated with disease-causing microorganisms
    
    • Precautionary Boil Water Advisory
      
    • Boil Water Alert - e.coli confirmed present
    • Precautionary Boil Water - e.coli may be present
      

AWWA Resources

AWWA has developed an excellent resources page for COVID-19. Please use this link to explore resources that may inform and assist you:

• Link to AWWA Resources Page

Resources on this page include, but are not limited to:

• Webinar: Legal Aspects of COVID-19 for Water Utilities (4/6)
• Free Webinar Recording: Utility Actions to Sustain Operations During COVID-19
  • Templates:Emergency Response Plan andPandemic Continuity of Operations Plan
• Trending in an Instant: A Risk Communication Guide for Water Utilities (member login required first to view)
• Trending in an Instant: A Risk Communication Guide for Water Utilities Executive Summary
• COVID-19 response: water sector preparation, vigilance crucial - AWWA Connections article
• Customer communications during during COVID-19 pandemic - AWWA Public Affairs Advisory (member login required first to view)
• Coronavirus and water - AWWA Public Affairs Advisory
• Your tap water during coronavirus pandemic - DrinkTap blog entry
• A lot can happen in 20 seconds - DrinkTap blog entry
• Business Continuity Planning for Water Utilities: Guidance Document
• Water system preparedness and best practices for pandemic influenza, Philip Van Atta and Robert Newsad, Journal AWWA
• G440-17 Emergency Preparedness Practices
• M19 Emergency Planning for Water and Wastewater Utilities

There is much more on the AWWA Resources Page.

As any new information comes to us, we will continue to update this page and the links herein.