Special Report: Condition Assessment
Condition assessment is crucial for maintaining the integrity of water and wastewater infrastructure, preventing failures, and ensuring the continuous delivery of essential services. This special report highlights the diverse strategies and technologies being used across the industry to enhance infrastructure management.
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How Miami-Dade’s Condition Assessment Program Keeps the Water Flowing
In 2010, Miami-Dade experienced a catastrophic failure of a 54-in. prestressed concrete cylinder pipe water transmission main. The aftermath of this failure resulted in the utility implementing one of the top condition assessment programs in the country to mitigate such an occurrence from happening again.
By Sharon M. Bueno
Technology Propels Tucson Water’s Pipeline Management Program
The City of Tucson has embraced technology to diagnose, prevent, and even predict failures as part of their Pipeline Protection Program. Among the City’s most critical pipelines is the Avra Valley Transmission Main.
By Paul Acosta and Christopher Kyea
PACP Version 8: A New Era of Standardization for Managing Infrastructure Assets & Obtaining Funding Assistance
The development of PACP Version 8.0 was led by industry professionals, who collectively reviewed and discussed necessary improvements to the standards provided by thousands of users since 2015 when a previous version (7.0) was released.
By Laurie Perkins, P.E.
Combating Leaks with Innovative Monitoring
Utilities such as the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, in Ontario, have taken a proactive approach to tackle these issues with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) and innovations in sensing.
By Stan Fong
How to Assess a Potable Water System
The successful assessment of a potable water system is best achieved by breaking the system down into project size areas, and then utilizing a pipeline risk prioritization methodology.
By Brent Johnson, P.E. and Cindy Preuss, P.E.
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