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Why high performing utilities choose strategic valve rehabilitation
Utilities can save their communities substantial amounts of money, reduce the need for unaffordable rate increases or financing arrangements, and improve the...
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Utility Justifies an Increase in Their Capital Spending Budget with Advanced Risk Analysis
Image taken by and used with permission from Aurora Water Aurora is Colorado’s third largest city. Located in a semi-arid climate without a major water source...
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Continuous Monitoring Saves Money, Prevents Failures, and Improves Long-Term Planning for California Water Authority
The San Diego County Water Authority (Water Authority) is a public wholesale water provider serving 24 member agencies. Together, these agencies serve 3.3...
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Beyond Failure Prevention - The Benefits of Pipeline Monitoring for Large-Diameter PCCP Assets
By implementing a proactive management program, utilities can virtually eliminate the risk of failure within their PCCP inventory. Even utilities that have not...
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Beyond the Wires - A Sustainable Approach to Prestressed Concrete Cylinder Pipe Management
Broken prestressing wires have been emphasized as a basis for the management of Prestressed Concrete Cylinder Pipe (PCCP) by the industry. The approach...
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Flower Mound, Texas Prioritizes Repairs, Prevents Failures, and Reduces Risk with Engineering Assessment
Like many fast-growing communities, the Town of Flower Mound, Texas lacked detailed information on the true condition of some key aging assets, including...
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Risk-Based Approach to Metallic Pipe Condition Assessment
How to build a risk-based approach to condition assessment of metallic transmission mains Today, new advancements in technologies and data analytics are...
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Inspection Insights Enable Utility to Extend the Life of a Critical Raw Water Main Reducing Costs, Risk, and Carbon Emissions
Scottish Water is a public utility created in 2002 with the merger of three regional providers. The utility is one of the largest water suppliers in the United...
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Smartball® Technology Used To Successfully Identify Leaks On Vacuum-Insulated Hot Water Pipeline
Guiding Repair Decisions And Improving Service Reliability Fortum’s core business in Poland is high-efficiency combined heat and power production and heat...
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City Takes Proactive Approach To Managing A Critical Raw Water Main Using Advanced Robotics Inspection Technology
The City of Saint John (City) owns and operates more than 900 kilometers of water and wastewater piping in the province of New Brunswick, Canada, and provides...
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City of Montreal (Canada) selected highly reliable and precise Sahara® acoustic video for the inspection on 34 kilometers of pipelines and detected 24 leaks and zero gas pockets.
Challeng e: The City of Montreal supplies drinking water and wastewater services to a population of nearly 1.9 million people. Solution : Starting in 2007,...
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Italian Utility Improves System Reliability and Saves Water, Money and Energy by Locating Water Loss on a Submarine Pipeline
Italy faces two compounding water challenges: aging infrastructure and growing water stress due to climate change. According to Utilitalia, 38 percent of water...
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Empowering Data-Driven Pipeline Management
How does your utility decide which pipelines to repair or replace, and when? Age and failure history alone are not enough to make confident management...
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Scottish Water deploy SoundPrint® Acoustic Fibre Optic System
The Blairlinnans water main, owned and operated by Scottish Water, is a 42-inch pre-stressed concrete pipeline that runs over 16 kilometres (10 miles) from the...
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Alberta Utility Averts Potential Catastrophic Holiday Failure with Proactive Pipeline Management Approach
EPCOR Water Services Inc. (EPCOR) provides water and wastewater services to more than 85 communities and industrial sites across Western Canada. The utility...
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What's in the Numbers? A Review and Analysis of More than 400 Miles of Force Main Inspection and Condition Assessment Data
Assessing the condition of wastewater force mains is challenging as it is often impractical from an operational and financial perspective to shut down or...
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Risk-Based Asset Management Approach Prevents PCCP Failures And Saves Utility Over CA$1 Million
The Lake Huron and Elgin Area Primary Water Supply Systems located in southwestern Ontario draw from Lake Huron to the north and Lake Erie to the south....
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Pipeline Inspection of Critical 20-year-old Mine Discharge Water Pipelines in Environmentally Sensitive Area
Challenge Pipeline integrity is critical to a mine’s ability to maximize production, reliability and sustainability. In the U.S., mines operate under strict...
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Inline Leak Detection Technology Helps Municipality Locate Leaks, Avoid Costly Failures, And Prolong The Life Of Critical Buried Assets
The third largest municipality in Canada, the City of Calgary is located in the western province of Alberta. The City operates a water distribution and...
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EPAL cuts real water loss by 1.7 million cubic meters annually using high-precision pipeline inspection technologies
Founded in 1868, EPAL is the oldest and largest bulk water company in Portugal, supplying services to 35 municipalities throughout the county. In Lisbon, EPAL...
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Municipality uses inline leak detection technology to gather actionable data, avoid costly failures, and update alignment of wastewater pressure main
Rheda-Wiedenbruck is a community in the North Rhine-Westphalia state in Germany with a population of nearly 50,000 residents. In early 2019, the municipality...
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Utility saves an average of 7 million gallons of water per day by utilizing innovative technologies to support their leak detection program
The Dallas water distribution system is one of the largest in the United States, with Dallas Water Utilities (DWU) providing water service to approximately 2.4...
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Preventing Main Breaks With Advanced Inspection Technologies That Identify Stray Currents, Corrosive Soils, And Wall Loss
This proactive wholesale drinking water supplier services a large growing population in the southern region of the United States. With a humid climate and a...
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Implementing a proactive approach to force main asset management
With advancements in technology and a willingness to develop proactive pipeline integrity programs, utilities can successfully reduce failures, mitigate risk,...
