Office
Mission
OGWDW, together with states, tribes, and our many
partners, will protect public health by ensuring safe drinking water
and protecting ground water.
We will accomplish this mission using the following principles:
- Prevention as an effective approach;
- Risk-based priority setting for new and existing regulations,
based on sound science, quality data in reliable databases, and
quality methods and standards;
- Partnership and involvement of public and private organizations,
citizens, and communities;
- Flexibility and effectiveness in implementation while
maintaining a national public health baseline;
- Accountability of all parties through public participation
and accessible information; and
- Results documented and presented clearly.
Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water Organizational Chart
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Cynthia Dougherty
Director
Nanci Gelb
Deputy Director |
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Standards and Risk Management Division
Pamela Barr
Director |
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Drinking Water Protection Division
Steve Heare
Director |
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Water Security Division
David Travers
Director |
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Target and Analysis Branch
Eric Burneson
Chief
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Protection Branch
Ron Bergman
Chief |
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Security and Assistance Branch
Debbie Newberry
Chief
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Technical Support Center
Cincinnati, Ohio
Gregory Carroll
Chief
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Prevention Branch
Ann Codrington
Chief
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Threats Analysis, Prevention, &
Preparedness Branch
Patricia Tidwell-Shelton
Chief
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Standards and Risk Reduction Branch
Jeanne Briskin
Chief |
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Infrastructure Branch
Chuck Job
Chief |
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The Office works closely with EPA's Regional Offices.
Water Security Division
Security Assistance Branch
Activities: supports initiatives to develop tools and technical assistance, manages grants to support security initiatives of water utilities (drinking water and wastewater), state drinking water agencies, and technical assistance providers, provide liaison to the Department of Homeland Security in support of HSPD 7, handles the receipt of vulnerability assessments and emergency response plan certifications as required by the Bioterrorism Act, and develops outreach materials and supports information sharing initiatives.
Threats Analysis, Prevention, & Preparedness Branch
Activities: develops emergency response and incident planning tools and guidance, and emergency response planning workshops, funds and manages the development of research and technology tools in coordination with other agencies and EPA's National Homeland Security Research Center, and works to develop laboratory capabilities and monitoring and detection for drinking water systems under HSPD 9.
Standards and Risk Management Division
Targeting and Analysis Branch
Activities: develops regulatory tools in the areas of drinking
water treatment technologies, analytical
methods, cost/
benefit analysis, contaminant
identification and occurrence; and develops regulations for
individual chemical contaminants in drinking water such as radon,
arsenic,
and emerging new contaminants.
Technical Support Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
Activities: provides technical and scientific support to the development
and implementation of drinking water regulations; manages Unregulated
Contaminant Monitoring Rule implementation and drinking water
laboratory
certification program; supports Partnership
for Safe Water, treatment plant optimization and analytical
methods development.
Standards and Risk Reduction Branch
Activities: develops drinking water regulations and guidance for
control of microbial contaminants and disinfection
byproducts, other high priority
contaminants, and improved distribution
system operations collects
microbial, disinfection byproduct, water quality parameter, and
treatment process data to determine contaminant occurrence in
drinking water; evaluates waterborne disease outbreak, toxicological
and edpdemiological data to support risk modeling to evaluate
public health risk; analyzes economic issues, and plans and tracks
research in support of drinking water regulations.
Drinking Water Protection Division
Protection Branch
Activities: responsible for implementation of the Public
Water Supply System program, including operator
certification, small
systems technical assistance, chemical
monitoring, and the tribal
program.
Prevention Branch
Activities: responsible for implementation of the source
water assessment and protection program, including wellhead
protection, comprehensive
state ground water protection, and the sole
source aquifer program, and the Underground
Injection Control program.
Infrastructure Branch
Activities: maintains information on drinking water through computer
databases
and the Internet, responsible
for the Drinking
Water State Revolving Fund, and works to promote consumer awareness
of safe drinking water issues.
Office Mail, Phone, & Fax information
- For general inquiries: Safe Drinking
Water Hotline 1-800-426-4791
- Contact the Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water
Mailing address:
Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water (4601)
Ariel Rios Building
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20460-0003
Street address:
EPA East
1201 Constitution Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20460-0003
Phone and Fax:
Phone: 202-564-3750
Fax: 202-564-3753 (Director's office)
Fax: 202-564-3751 (Drinking Water Protection Division)
Fax: 202-564-3752 (Standards and Risk Management Division)
Technical Support Center:
U.S. EPA
26 Martin Luther King Drive
Cincinnati, Ohio 45268
Phone: 513-569-7948
Fax: 513-569-7191
E-mail:
Addresses for EPA staff take the form of lastname.firstname@epa.gov.
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