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When a Water Main Breaks Presentation to: AWWU Board of Directors November 5, 2014
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Key Points Water Main Breaks Happen Frequently Have to Manage Service Levels – Large Diameter Pipe Failure – Tudor/Elmore – Small Diameter Breaks this Year Customers Expect Normal Service Levels
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How We Manage Our Water Mains Large Diameter Pipes – Condition Assessment Small Diameter Pipes – Failure Prediction + Condition Assessment Field Response Critical to Good Customer Service
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Twin Pits 30-inch Water Main Repair
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Earthquake Forced the Issue? September 25, 2014
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Following the earthquake… Teamwork
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Finding the Leak Immediate Response - Leak Detection
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Planning Steps Taken
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30-inch Water Main Repair Initiated Repair (10’ from Vault) October 24/25, 2014
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More Repair Activities Repair Clamp Unsuccessful – Outside Too Corroded – Seal Did not Hold
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Final Touches on the Repair Abandoned Repair - 30” out of Service
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Post Repair Activities Video – Confirmed Hole, Nothing Else
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Important Next Steps Immediate Mitigation– Winter Worthy Temporary Service to APD Design to Rehab (Pipe In Service by May 2015) Additional Tasks (May Reduce Rehab Scope): New Methods for Analysis on Pipe Wall Thickness using Previous Data Evaluate Cathodic Protection for this Pipe
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Recent Leak More Analysis…
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How many breaks are too many? Middle Aged Pipe Will Break – Pressure Changes Will Result in Breaks – Replacement Costs Much Higher than Repair Retaining Level of Service Important – Eklutna Offline, Well 9 offline, 30” offline Operating within Normal Service Level
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2014 Breaks and Outages
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An Epidemic of Breaks, nope…
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2014 Breaks Compared to Average
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Questions? Water Main Breaks are Part of Doing Business Maintaining the level service our customers are used to is a Utility-wide effort Operating within Normal Service Level
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Relative Impact of Breaks
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Customer Impact by Pipe Size
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Updated PVR
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WDSRI – Our Level of Service Hasn’t Changed WDSRI measures and compares to recent past Number of Unplanned Outages Customer Hours of all Outages
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