Ten Years of Water Utility Asset Management Roy Brander, P.Eng. Senior Infrastructure Engineer City of Calgary Water Resources

Calgary 650 sq. km. Population: 1.1 million Metro Pop: 1.2 million A “Uni-City”

Electromagnetic Inspection of Mains Using Russell Technologies’ HydroScope ™ (now SeeSnake ™) Exact pit depths and locations of holes

Calgary Waterworks / Calgary Sewer Division Merger Reorganized into Water Resources: Planning, Development, AM, Construction Management, Water Quality & Regulation Water Services : Plants, Linear System Operation, Construction Services Touted as “Asset Management Focused Organization” Started $10M “Enterprise Asset Management System” project

Oracle WAM Individual Work Order Record

WAM stores Asset Inspections – 30,000 video runs, 900,000 defects We were able to “back create” work orders and inspections going back to Single repository of all assets, all work, all inspections.

Sanitary Sewer Lining Program RFP won by Insituform Now reaching thirty kilometres per year One-tenth the cost of replacement

GIS Showing Sanitary Mains by Count of Previous Root-Cleaning Jobs

GIS App for San. Lining Program Selection

ESRI Trick: Any GIS feature can be a web hypertext link

But the link can be to a Web App that gets a full report from the Data Warehouse

Scrolling down – all work orders in the Data Warehouse made from OWAM

Further down – every defect found in those two videos

Bottom of Web Page: Form for AM Evaluation

GIS App for San. Lining Program Selection

Triple-Bottom Line Exercise from Hunter Water Australia, 2006 Financial: $12,000 to repair (real dollars) Environmental: $10,000 (would pay to avoid) Social:$ 1,000 (would pay to avoid) Total TBL Cost of Failure: $23,000 Probability of Failure per year, based on AM’s model of what characteristics (material, age, history) are associated with past failures: 1% per year Amount worth spending per year to avoid failure: 0.01 X $23,000 = $230 $230 Per Year becomes this one main’s “budget” for inspections (videos), planned maintenance, and mitigation efforts (ready spare parts, tools for containing spills).

TBL Cost-Benefit Applied to Each Water Main Replacement Candidate

Mcknight Blvd. 1200mm Water Main Break at -35C

Solutions Justified by Risk Analysis for Water Feedermains: Soil Sampling for Sulfates – $1M/yr Inspections – Spare Parts Inspection Technologies: - Electromagnetic For Wire Breaks in CON - Leak Detection with Microphones, Fibre-Optic, “Smart Ball” - Still Experimenting

A Risk Matrix that Uses DOLLARS for Risk, not just “High Medium Low”

Infrastructure Status Report – “prep” for TCA

TBL Order-of-Magnitude Risk Analysis Won Over the Plant Staff

Business Cases “TBL” Valuation was Standardized Spreadsheet where you just checked off impacts

Summary Asset Management is just Cost/Benefit Analysis Balances Operating vs. Capital Solutions by using NPV calculations Includes Triple-Bottom-Line DOLLAR valuations of poor service, environmental and social damages Applies a CONSISTENT set of rules to all assets and to all work areas