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Material Spill on La 1 Elevated Expressway
April 24, 2024
2:00 PM
From: Port Fourchon Harbor Police
Port Fourchon Harbor Police are on the scene of a material spill on the La 1 Elevated Expressway in Leeville. This spill has resulted in the closure of the portion of the highway south of Bayou Lafourche. Harbor Police are detouring northbound and southbound traffic to Old La 1.
Once the spill is cleaned, the roadway will be reopened.
Thank you for your patience,
Harbor Police
Situational Report | 11 April 2024 | 1900
Final SITREP for the Severe Weather this week –
Situational Report |11 April 2024
Please see the SITREP 4_11_24 Severe Weather for today.
Severe Weather – SITUATIONAL REPORT 10 April 2024| 0900
Please download the report here – SITREP 0900 – 4_10_24 Severe Weather 24-014
State Severe Weather Update – March 25th, 2024, 7:30AM
GOHSEP is monitoring a Slight to Enhanced risk of severe weather that will affect the state beginning later this morning. Potential impacts include damaging wind gusts of 70 miles per hour or more, tornadoes, including a few that could be strong or long-track, and rainfall up to two inches with locally higher amounts.
Visit the National Weather Service – New Orleans for more information.
**Timing forecast is low confidence outside of the main line of thunderstorms. Isolated thunderstorms will be possible ahead of the line that could also become severe**
Open Burning Safety Tips from State Agencies
Register to attend the Disaster Response Geospatial Workshop on June 6, 2024
The event is hosted by the Regional Application Center at UL Lafayette, the LouisianaView Program and US Geological Survey.
June 6, 2024
9:00 am – 4:00 pm (CST)
Abdalla Hall, 635 Cajundome Blvd. Lafayette, LA 70506
The event is in person, but we are offering a Zoom option.
Registration is free, but you must register to reserve your seat – https://lnkd.in/gSh8H8K6
The purpose of the workshop is to promote geospatial coordination during hurricane and
other disaster season events (i.e. Wildland fires), to identify points of contact, and to share
information about data portals and resources. Presentations will cover coordination related
to hurricane and other disaster season event preparation, emergency response operations,
ongoing recovery efforts, and an overview of the data clearinghouses, applications, and data
acquisitions of federal and state agencies which collect and host geospatial data.
For more information, view the Disaster_Response_flyer_2024
Thank you to Bottomland Geosciences, LLC for providing lunch!
Nationwide Cellular Outage Due to AT&T Routing Issue
There is a nationwide cellular outage that is being reported this morning due to an AT&T routing issue. The dominant impact is to carriers attempting to contact AT&T carriers. This impact is affecting pockets of the bad routing, and or peering command of the AT&T sites. This is not a tower or fiber issue but strictly a routing issue. AT&T has responded to the outage and has not given an eta to repair. GOHSEP and ESF-02 have been in constant contact with the carrier services and will continue to monitor the situation.
GOHSEP recommends that users use a WiFi service and switch to WiFi calling for voice and texting communications.
The below links are for the outage maps:
Jim Williams Joins State Incident Management Assistance Teams (IMAT)
Jim Williams, the Public-Private Partnership Operations Officer at the Informatics Research Institute, is now certified by the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management to be a part of the next generation of rapidly deployable emergency response teams called Incident Management Assistance Teams (IMATs).
According to FEMA, IMATs are full-time, rapid-response teams with dedicated staff able to deploy within two hours and arrive at an incident within 12 hours to support the local incident commander.
As a Liaison Officer Member, he and the team will be dispatched within 2 hours and arrive at the incident within twelve to various areas of the state during times of emergency to provide relief to the incident commander and team. They will provide situational awareness for federal and state decision-makers.
The teams are fully compliant with the National Incident Management System and the Incident Command System, and they train and exercise as a unit. When not deployed, the teams focus on building relationships with public and private sectors through planning, training, and education.
Louisiana Business Emergency Operations Center provides support to the business community in times of disaster. Our goal is to assist Louisiana businesses and non-profit organizations in disaster preparedness, response, and recovery efforts to ensure community stability, resilience, and economic revitalization. For more information, please visit LABEOC.ORG and join our network today.
Photo: Jim Williams, Public-Private Partnership Operations Officer, Informatics Research Institute
Lafourche Parish Water District No. 1 Public Service Announcement Customer Update
Water Conservation Notice: Lafourche Water District Reports Broken Water Main
January 25, 2024
4:15 p.m.
Water Conservation Notice: Lafourche Water District Reports Broken Water Main Please be advised that the Lafourche Parish Water District is asking Lafourche Parish residents from Raceland to Fourchon to conserve water due to a broken water main. This will affect area users until further notice. Thank you for your patience during this utility work. We will send out additional updates as needed and when the water line repairs are complete.
CISA, FBI and EPA Release Incident Response Guide for Water and Wastewater Systems Sector
With WWS Sector contributions, the guide provides recommended actions and available resources throughout cyber incident response lifecycle
WASHINGTON – The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a guide today to assist owners and operators in the Water and Wastewater Systems (WWS) Sector with best practices for cyber incident response and information about federal roles, resources and responsibilities for each stage of the response lifecycle. Technical expertise is not required to understand and use this guide.
Developed in collaboration with over 25 WWS Sector industry, nonprofit, and state/local government partners, this resource covers the four stages of the incident response lifecycle:
- Preparation: WWS Sector organizations should have an incident response plan in place, implement available services and resources to raise their cyber baseline, and engage with the WWS Sector cyber community.
- Detection and analysis: Accurate and timely reporting and rapid collective analysis are essential to understand the full scope and impact of a cyber incident. The guidance provides information on validating an incident, reporting levels, and available technical analysis and support.
- Containment, eradication, and recovery: While WWS Sector utilities are conducting their incident response plan, federal partners are focusing on coordinated messaging and information sharing, and remediation and mitigation assistance.
- Post-incident activities. Evidence retention, using collected incident data, and lessons learned are the overarching elements for a proper analysis of both the incident and how responders handled it.
“The Water and Wastewater Systems sector is under constant threat from malicious cyber actors. This timely and actionable guidance reflects an outstanding partnership between industry, nonprofit, and government partners that came together with EPA, FBI and CISA to support this essential sector. We encourage every WWS entity to review this joint guide and implement its recommended actions,” said CISA Executive Assistant Director for Cybersecurity, Eric Goldstein. “In the new year, CISA will continue to focus on taking every action possible to support ‘target-rich, cyber-poor’ entities like WWS utilities by providing actionable resources and encouraging all organizations to report cyber incidents. Our regional team members across the country will continue to engage with WWS partners to provide access to CISA’s voluntary services, such as enrollment in our Vulnerability Scanning, and serve as a resource for continued improvement.”
“The Water and Wastewater Systems Sector is a vital part of our critical infrastructure, and the FBI will continue to combat cyber actors who threaten it,” said Assistant Director Bryan Vorndran of the FBI’s Cyber Division. “A key part of our cyber strategy is building strong partnerships and sharing threat information with the owners and operators of critical infrastructure before they are hit with an attack.”
“Cyber threats to the water sector represent a real and urgent risk to safe drinking water and wastewater services that our nation relies on. The incident response guide assists utilities with approaches for collaboration with federal entities on lowering cyber risk in our nation’s drinking water and wastewater systems,” said EPA Assistant Administrator for Water, Radhika Fox. “EPA is committed to working with our federal, state, and water sector partners to increase the sector’s resilience and improve cyber-resilience practices.”
All WWS utilities are encouraged to use this incident response guide to augment their incident response planning and collaboration with federal partners and the WWS before, during, and following a cyber incident. Familiarity with this guide will better prepare WWS utilities to respond to—and recover from—a cyber incident.
For more information and resources, WWS utilities are encouraged to visit CISA’s Water and Wastewater Systems Cybersecurity webpage.
Partners that contributed to this guide include:
- AlexRenew
- American Water
- Association of State Drinking Water Administrators (ASDWA)
- Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation (CCTI)
- City of Dover
- Cyber Readiness Institute (CRI)
- Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis
- District of Columbia Water (DC Water)
- Dragos
- East Bay Municipal Utility District
- EMA Inc.
- Google/Mandiant
- International Society of Automation (ISA)
- Maine DHHS CDC Drinking Water Program
- Microsoft
- New Jersey Cybersecurity & Communications Integration Cell (NJCCIC)
- Platte Canyon Water & Sanitation DistrictSan Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC)
- Schneider Electric
- Tenable
- Tetra Tech
- Trinity River Authority of Texas
- Water Environment Federation
- Water Information Sharing and Analysis Center (WaterISAC)
- West Yost Inc.
- Xylem
- Individuals from American Water Works Association (AWWA)
About CISA
As the nation’s cyber defense agency and national coordinator for critical infrastructure security, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency leads the national effort to understand, manage, and reduce risk to the digital and physical infrastructure Americans rely on every hour of every day.
Weather Advisory: Heavy Rain and Flash Flood
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Talking Data Privacy – January 22 -26
Winter Weather SITREP 01.17.24
Please see the attached Situational Report, 17 January 2024, for incident 24-006 Winter Weather – Statewide – Jan1518.
Greater Lafourche Port Commission Winter Weather Update 01.16.24
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
Winter Weather Update
The Greater Lafourche Port Commission is continuing to monitor the winter weather and remains in contact with the National Weather Service, State GOHSEP, and Parish EOC. Based on the National Weather Service information, the southern part of Lafourche Parish including the South Lafourche Airport and Port Fourchon will see colder temperatures tonight, but it is not expected to see any freezing precipitation on the elevated Hwy 1. Please continue to monitor for information as this winter weather system impacts our area throughout the night into the late morning hours.
Again, based on the information we have, we do not expect major impacts to roadways in our immediate area, but be prepared as we know how weather impacts can change rapidly. Please drive carefully.
Winter Weather Brief 01.16.24
Please see the weather brief attached –
Winter Weather SITREP 01.16.24
Please see the attached Situational Report, 16 January 2024, for incident 24-006 Winter Weather – Statewide – Jan1518.
SITREP 730 PM – Winter Weather 24-006 16 Jan 2024