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Region of Peel Spill Response System - Strategic Plan
This project will develop a strategic business plan-the first step in creating a web-based emergency response system for the Region of Peel (ROP), Ontario. The proposed emergency response system is intended to improve situational awareness when dealing with chemical and oil spills. The strategic plan will identify a project vision, partnership opportunities, and benefits, and present the business case for developing the web-based system.
Highly industrialized, the ROP is one of the areas within and around Toronto most prone to spills. A web-based spill-response system would provide real-time situational information regarding spills and improve ROP responses. Such a system would also integrate terrestrial and aquatic data to better assess impacts that may require involving the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority.
The users of the business plan and the web-based system are expected to be the public safety and security community that deals with situational awareness and consequence management. The preliminary goal of the plan is to develop partnerships between these community stakeholders. The project will also look to use web-based geomatics data standards from the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI) and build new predictive modelling tools based on existing standards.
To manage risk from hazards and respond to threats, public safety and security organizations need to be aware of the situations they face. In support of this goal, this project is funded under GeoConnections' Public Safety and Security Situational Awareness priority area.
Primary Partner:
Toronto and Region Conservation Authority
Toronto,
Ontario;
Partners:
Keigan Systems Inc.
Region of Peel
Funding From GeoConnections: $10,000.00 ( 46.16 %)
Estimated Inception Date: November, 2007
Estimated Completion Date: January, 2008
Deliverables from this project benefitted the following provinces: Ontario;