Water System Condition and Asset Replacement Prioritization

• DOI: 10.4236/jwarp.2023.155010
• Publication Date: 2023-05-08T07:27:21Z
• Authors: Frederick Bloetscher; Zachary Farmer; James Barton; Teresa Chapman; Paula Fonseca; Monica Shaner
• Keywords: Prioritization

The goal of asset management is to identify and track the maintenance replacement assets that have reached their useful life. For reason, gathering data collecting information a critical step when developing an plan. Such includes physical operational properties as well tracking important events during lifespan (i.e., pipe breaks, year, performed, etc.). Critical factors in plan may be overlooked there no or poor quality data. However, many utilities lack resources for examining buried infrastructure good work order data, so other methods collection are needed. concept this paper was develop means acquire on condition assessment pipes were most likely break those with highest consequences same. Three used examples. It found infrastructure, much more known than anticipated but actual predictions relied only few related type. need consequences, case which would indicate failure. latter predicting future needs at-risk assets, often missing utility systems do not adequately breaks sufficiently. In two analyzed predication third developed.