Hank Day, maintenance and operations foreman of Star Sewer and Water District of Star, Idaho, is on a mission."Groundwater infiltrating my system...
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Eyes on the Infrastructure
Entries Tagged Asset Management
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From Drawers to the Desktop
The City of Saco (Maine) Public Works Department recorded maintenance on its sewer and stormwater systems on sheets of paper and index...
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Tying it All Together
The City of Westminster, Colo., a northwest suburb of Denver, has seen rapid growth over the last 40 years. The Westminster Utilities...
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New Paradigms
Last May the City of Tacoma (Wash.) Public Works began an ambitious project to inspect the condition and sediment load in every...
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Complete Package
Regulatory pressure and budget constraints are just two factors raising attention paid to managing information about water distribution systems. The challenge is...
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Farewell to Paper
The Cucamonga Valley Water District in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., needed to improve on a location-based customer information program for work order management...
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Case Studies: Pipeline Inspection, Surveying and Mapping
Map-based project coordinationProblemThe City of Baltimore managed its water and sewer projects by poring over spreadsheets at long meetings, then followed up...
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Pipeline Inspection, Surveying and Mapping
Inspection controllersNew control units from RapidView IBAK North America communicate with the company’s pipeline inspection equipment and present users with relevant diagnostic...
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Becoming a Believer
A couple of years ago, Dan Hartman could easily sum up his disdain for social media such as Twitter in less than...
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Out of the Comfort Zone
The small community of Bay Village, Ohio, was doing everything it should in sewer maintenance: mainline inspection, regular cleaning, root control and...
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Intelligent Planning
Software that can detect and filter e-mail spam incorporates a library of known spam characteristics, learns from user input and recognizes patterns....
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Made to Order
Dublin, Ohio, and Lee’s Summit, Mo., are two very different cities — the latter more than twice as large. Yet both apply...
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End to End
Digital information greatly simplifies and streamlines management of municipal and utility infrastructure. But sometimes the challenge is to integrate all the different...
