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The City of Baltimore owns and operates the 108-in. Susquehanna Raw Water Main, which runs parallel to Interstate I-95 for much of its length. With construction of four new express toll lanes on the interstate beginning in 2019, Baltimore City Department of Public Works (DPW) needed to find a way to protect the prestressed concrete cylinder pipe (PCCP) water main and ensure that construction activities would not result in wire breaks. After developing new specifications for the transportation authority to ensure that their contractors would be engaged with the monitoring of the buried asset, the city partnered with Xylem Assessment Services to develop a custom-built solution that utilizes acoustic monitoring technology at five construction sites, with no wire breaks from construction activity yet detected. This paper reviews PCCP and its failure modes, the City of Baltimore and Xylem Assessment Services’ approach to managing the city’s PCCP, the specific concerns arising from the heavy construction conducted by others, and the development of the monitoring solution.
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