ISO/TR TECHNICAL REPORT 26368 First edition 2012-05-15 Environmental damage limitation from fire-fighting water run-off Limitation des dommages environnementaux dus au ruissellement des eaux de lutte contre I'incendie Reference number ISO/TR 26368:2012(E) ISO @ISO2012 vided by IHS under lic No reproduction or networking permitted without license from IHS Not for Resale ISO/TR 26368:2012(E) COPYRiGHTPROTECTEDDOCUMENT ISO 2012 All rights reserved. Unless otherwise specified, no part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and microfilm, without permission in writing from either ISO at the address below or ISO's member body in the country of the requester. ISO copyright office Case postale 56 · CH-1211 Geneva 20 Tel. + 41 22 749 01 11 Fax + 41 22 749 09 47 E-mail [email protected] Web www.iso.org Published in Switzerland @ ISO 2012 - All rights reserved No reproduction or networking permited withoutlicense from IHS Not for Resale ISO/TR26368:2012(E) Contents Page Foreword .. iv Introduction 1 Scope 2 Normative references 3 Terms and definitions. 4 Emission to the aquatic environment.. 4.1 Contamination pathways... 4.2 Control of fire-fighting water run-off to surface water and ground water 4.3 Permanent or portable tanks are another option for fire-water retention.. 5 Environmental damage limitation 5.1 Initialriskassessment... 5.2 Risk reduction strategies 5.3 Fire-fighting tactics.. 5.4 Factors in assessing the volume of water run-off 6 Rules to design water basins. 6.1 Characteristics to design the water basins 6.2 Commoncharacteristicsofwaterbasins 6.3 Methods to define water basin capacity . Annex A (informative) Example case histories 14 Annex B (informative) Overview of water basin definition methods 17 Annex C (informative) Assessing water run-off containment capacities in existing facilities and facilities under development using risk-based approach - Australian method.. 19 Bibliography 22 ii ut license from IHS Not for Resale