1. Pipeline Assessment Certification Program (PACP) Benefits of Version 7
Pipeline Assessment Certification Program (PACP) Benefits of Version 7.0 Update Ted DeBoda, P.E. Executive Director NASSCO

2. The New PACP Version 7.0 Unprecedented Review Technical Updates
Educational Benefits
User Friendly Format
New Asset Management Appendix

3. Unprecedented Review
More than 100 Collections Professionals Reviewed Entire Manual and Collectively Raised the Bar on PACP Industry Standards

4. Technical Update More User Friendly and Informative
Describes Supplemental Technologies
Includes Backgrounds to Technical Issues, i.e. Deterioration Mechanisms and Stages of Sewer Collapse

5. Technical Update More Robust and Informative Header Form
No Data Loss from v to v 7.0
10 Custom Fields
Used for Specific Needs
Allows More Information on Existing Database

6. Technical Update More Robust and Informative Header Form
9 Redefined Fields and New Options
New Material Options
Weather
Consequence of Failure (CoF)

7. Technical Update More Robust and Informative Header Form 5 New Fields
Reviewed By and Certificate Number
Coating
Vertical Datum
Lining Method
Inspection Technology Used

8. Technical Update Addition of Infiltration Codes’ Modifiers Barrel
Lateral
Connection
Joint

9. Technical Update
If ANY Defect can be Seen in a Lateral, it is Coded as Defective
Tap Code Modifiers Prioritized and additional observations included in Remarks:
Defective
Intruding
Capped
Activity
Abandoned

10. Technical Update
Level 1 MACP Simplified - Mandatory Requirements were Reduced in 31 Fields!
13 New Fields and 4 New Component Fields were Added

11. Technical Update New LACP Access Codes Access Lateral Trap (ALT)
Access Roof Vent (ARV)
Access Backflow Preventer (ABP)

12. Technical Update Additional Condition Grades Stormwater
Dam and Levee Pipes

13. Educational Benefit Training Material Follows Manual Better
Clarifies Rules for Continuous Defects
Provides Example for Overlapping Continuous Defects for Improved and More Accurate Coding

14. Educational Benefit Moved Buckling Code into Deformed Modifier
Clarifies Buckling Occurrence
Allows for Deformation Percent
New Codes for Surface Damage to Provide More Detailed Options
Surface Spalling of the Coating
Corrosion Tuberculation

15. Educational Benefit
New Appendix to Help Field Personnel to Identify Pipe Materials

16. User Friendly Format Manual More Easily Updated
The New Color Codes Chart for Header Codes Facilitates Populating the Fields
The Manhole Measurement Diagram Eliminates any Second Guessing about what Component is Being Measured

17. Asset Management
New Appendix Describes Asset Management Using PACP to Define
Likelihood of Failure (LoF)
Consequence of Failure (CoF)
Risk

18. Status Feb 2015 – Final Draft of Manual and Training Materials
May 2015 – U.S. Certification Training