(ES)² news

December 2020

(ES)² prepares and organizes a flood management crisis exercise involving two municipalities in the Pas-de-Calais, north of France, government services and the local fire brigade.

November 2020

(ES)² carries out a Pre-Crisis Operational Diagnosis and prepares and organizes a crisis management exercise for a water supply company in the Aude department, south of France.

(ES)² performs an audit and drafts Initial Security Assessments (ISA) for water supply critical sites serving a large city in Corsica.

October 2020

(ES)² analyses the vulnerabilities of the telecom networks which are strategic to operate the production and distribution facilities of a major water company in the Paris region.

(ES)² carries out Initial Security Assessments (ISA) on behalf of the operator in charge of water supply systems in the Hérault department, south of France.

September 2020

(ES)² performs an operational diagnosis with a view to issuing recommendations on the new crisis management and business continuity procedures of a very large household waste processing utility in the Paris region.

August 2020

(ES)² continues to work on the crisis management protocol of the water supply company in charge of a major urban community in the Hauts-de-France region, north of France.

July 2020

(ES)² carries out initial diagnostics on the physical security of water supply systems which are managed by a large water company in the Pyrénées-Orientales department, south of France near the Spanish border. (ES)² also assists an operator in renewing its guarding and security contract (drafting specifications, interviewing candidates, …).

June 2020

(ES)² carries out a Post-Crisis COVID-19 Operational Diagnostic and a progress plan for a large environmental services company in preparation for the second phase of the pandemic crisis. The firm also carries out the same kind of work for a major local authority in the Paris region.

March-May 2020

(ES)² helps its clients (private operators with delegated public services contracts, public utilities, local authorities, etc.) to manage the pandemic COVID 19 crisis, with a view to maintaining business continuity in water, wastewater and urban transport services.

February 2020

(ES)² works for an operator on the drafting of a pollution-network continuity and crisi response plan and on an emergency water supply plan, which will be concluded by an operating crisis management exercise in Normandy, west of France.

January 2020

(ES)² draws up a Business Continuity Plan (BCP) in response to any operating risk likely to be encountered by a large water company in Luxembourg.

December 2019

(ES)² prepares and organizes an operational crisis management exercise based on the scenario of a network pollution incident affecting a sensitive customer (a military hospital) in a large metropolitan area in the south-west of France.

November 2019

(ES)² draws up the continuity and emergency plans for power supply breakdown and street pooling for a water company in charge of supplying drinkable water to a major city in the south-west of France.

October 2019

(ES)² works for water company, appointed by the French administration as Operator of Vital Importance (OVI), to draw up a security master plan and a vulnerability study for the entire water cycle.

September 2019

(ES)² submits its conclusions, recommendations and analyses following the completion of a post-crisis operational diagnostic after two network pollution events that affected a water supply company in the Hauts-de-France region, north of France.

August 2019

(ES)² begins work on a crisis response and emergency plan for the water and sanitation division of a major city in the south of France.

July 2019

(ES)² carries out security diagnostics on facilities essential to the water supply in the Deux-Sèvres department, south-west of France, and is involved in drafting security measures for a large reservoir which a regular target of malicious acts in the north of France.

July 2019 : Preliminary Security Diagnosis (PSD)

(ES)2 carried out security checks on critical areas of a water supply of the Deux-Sevres department and was called out on emergency for the securing of a reservoir, a regular target of incivilities in the north of France.

June 2019 : Security blueprint for water supply

Following around 60 technical site audits, (ES)2 laid out initial ideas for the main infrastructure security plan that contributes to the supply of drinking water in a large French city.

May 2019 : Crisis Management Exercise (pollution in the distribution network)

Pre-Crisis Operational Diagnosis (PCOD) involved preparation and organization of a crisis management exercise with the theme of pollution in the distribution network in the region of the fifth most important metropolitan area of France. A new feature was working with teams from the region as well as from a private operator.

April 2019 : Review of the emergency procedures for upcoming G7

(ES)2 reviewed the emergency procedures for water supply and sanitation, which were re-enforced. It prepared a Crisis Management Exercise involving representatives from the regional and metropolitan authorities and the private operator in light of the upcoming G7 summit which was happening in August on the Basque coast.

March 2019 : Crisis Management Exercise (damage on the supply of a WWTP and problem with H2S gas in pumping station)

For the private operator of a large community in the west of France, (ES)2 prepared and coordinated a Crisis Management Exercise directed at a major burst of a supply pipe at the entrance of a large wastewater treatment plant. Next, the drill examined a problem linked with H2S gas detected in a pumping station, which required the assistance of the local fire brigade. See video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSodIu1GOjk.

February 2019 : Redesign of an Emergency Action Plan

(ES)2 was chosen to redesign the Emergency Action Plan of two towns in the Paris region, following the classification of a row water storage site as a Category C dam.

January 2019 : Preliminary Security Diagnosis

(ES)2 carried out a security diagnosis of a water supply system in a highly touristic area of Normandy.