Managing Water and Wastewater Assets

In late 1990s, various regulatory edicts, such as GASB 34 and CMOM regulations, mandated the need for significant improvement in the development of water and wastewater asset management systems. Recently a string of aging infrastructure failures has highlighted the importance of having a GIS based asset management system for every municipality. Azertia provides software and services to build and maintain water and wastewater asset mapping systems (as well as storm water and other municipal asset requirements) that provide for:

Water:

1. Accurate GPS field mapping and surveying of all water assets. This can include Fire Hydrants, Valves, Curb Boxes, Meter Pits, Pumps, Special Valves, etc.
2. Creation of a centralized GIS water asset system database using various hardcopy and/or digital data sources such as GPS field data collection, paper maps, as-built drawings, valve intersection drawing etc.
3. Maintaining accurate and current information related to valve maintenance, hydrant flushing and related ongoing operational processes.
4. Creation of highly accurate link-node models for water distribution and sewer collection systems. This enables users to then perform faster, less costly hydraulic modeling of networks using such packages as WaterCAD, KYPIPE etc.

Wastewater:

1. Accurate GPS field mapping and surveying of all wastewater assets. This can include sewer manholes, etc.
2. Creation of a centralized GIS wastewater asset system database using various hardcopy and/or digital data sources such as GPS field data collection, paper maps, as-built drawings, aerial flyover photographs, etc.
3. Maintaining accurate and current information related to ongoing operational processes such as Sanitary Sewer Overflow (SSO) information.
4. Linkage of wastewater piping CCTV inspection data to the wastewater pipe segments in the GIS system.

Software Solution

Azertia specifically designed the FACTS Viewer Water & Wastewater XF (eXtended Function) module to:

• Enable comprehensive management and monitoring of water distribution and wastewater collection network assets.

• Address regulatory mandates for managing water and wastewater systems including GASB 34 and CMOM reporting requirements.

• Provide for routine and ad hoc information access and reporting.

• Support  "work flow" based operational update of the asset systems.

Be it hydrant flushing, valve inspection, main replacement and assessment, and/or water and wastewater system networks analysis, the FACTS XF Water/Wastewater module database design provides for work flow based capture and maintenance of the data you need to implement a robust asset management system. This includes hard asset data such as manholes, pipes and valves as well as related maintenance/service information such as flushing data, sewer inflow and infiltration (I&I) and water quality complaints.