Using Water Main Break Data to Improve Asset Management for Small and Medium Utilities: District of Maple Ridge, B.C.
Publication: Journal of Infrastructure Systems
Volume 15, Issue 2
Abstract
An approach is developed for identifying key data to be used in asset management in general, and for predicting pipe breaks and selecting appropriate models in particular. The approach is applied to the District of Maple Ridge, B.C., Canada to identify the magnitude of a utility’s pipe burst problems today and in the future, enhance the development of pipe replacement priorities based on forecasted breaks, and identify key data to collect in future data acquisition programs. It may also be used by other utilities with varying amounts of data, and can be easily implemented with existing data management and analysis tools.
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Acknowledgments
The writers gratefully acknowledge the District of Maple Ridge for providing data and support in the form of employee resources, and Professor A. D. Russell and Professor J. W. Atwater at the University of British Columbia (UBC) for their insights and suggestions. Mr. W. Liu and Mr. A. Malyuk, both of the District of Maple Ridge, assisted respectively, with the preparation of the break data and in data processing and compilation.
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Journal of Infrastructure Systems
Volume 15 • Issue 2 • June 2009
Pages: 111 - 119
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© 2009 ASCE.
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Received: Jul 19, 2006
Accepted: Mar 31, 2008
Published online: May 15, 2009
Published in print: Jun 2009
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