Hardeep Anand, P.E. Deputy Director Capital Improvement Program Miami-Dade Water and Sewer Department

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1 Miami-Dade County Water & Sewer Department Adapting to Becoming a Resilient Utility Hardeep Anand, P.E. Deputy Director Capital Improvement Program Miami-Dade Water and Sewer Department

2 Agenda 1 Background and Challenges 2 Framework for Operationalizing 3 Participative Approach 4 MD-WASD s Path to Resiliency 2

3 System Overview Wastewater 6,200 miles of sewage pipe 1,035 pump stations 3 Regional WWTPs Water 7,700 miles of water pipe 5 booster pump stations 3 Regional WTPs 2.3 Million people served daily $742 Million in annual operating revenue 6th largest wastewater utility in U.S.A. 8th largest water utility in U.S.A.

4 Introduction and Background Increasing number of challenges Climate Change Resource Depletion Aging Infrastructure Reliable Data Regulatory Compliance Accelerated Growth Workforce Development $13B+ CIP Limited Funding Operation Optimization 4

5 Why resilience is a requisite? Degradation of Services Source: NIAC Water Sector Resilience Final Report and Recommendation: Draft/Pre-Decisional 5

6 Becoming Resilient Requires Continued Attention After the Event Rapid Recovery Robust & Flexible Able to rebound back from Prior Ability to adapt and During small, After daily disruptors. This is learn from an event. part of the operational stability. Better preparedness. Ability to keep absorbing shocks and keep responding. Resourceful & Actionable Ability to manage an event as it unfolds. Sound action plans / alternatives to put in action. 6

7 Customers Expectations 7

8 Customers Expectations Resiliency Health Water Rate Quality Resilience is the ability of an asset or system to withstand an attack or natural hazard without interruption of performing the asset or system s function or if the function is interrupted, to restore the function rapidly Identify: 8

9 Limited Funding Stretching the Dollar Balance CAPEX and OPEX Added Expectations Current Practice A Community Expectation 9

10 Water Sector Adaptation Broad Approach Adaptation actions do not necessarily require a vastly different manner of thinking, doing business, or the development of significant changes in policy or operations. Changes we make should be incremental Mainstream Adaptation - incorporate consideration of climate impacts into existing decision-making Adopt Adaptive Management Shift Strategic decisions along the way as needed 10

11 Adaptation Actions in the Water Sector Sustainable and Resilience 1: Increase or Strengthen Water Capture and Storage 2: Reduce Water Losses 3: Create New Sources of Water 4: Water Demand Management 5: Protect Water Quality 6: Structural Approaches to Flood Protection 7: Non-structural Approaches to Flood Protection 8: Protect Inland Freshwater Ecosystems and Ecosystem Services 9: Manage Critical Interdependencies between Energy and Water 10: Strengthen Water Governance Source: CLIMATE CHANGE AND WATER AN ANNEX TO THE USAID CLIMATE-RESILIENT DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK 11

12 Water Sector Adaptation Actions Source: CLIMATE CHANGE AND WATER AN ANNEX TO THE USAID CLIMATE-RESILIENT DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK 12

13 Resilient Utility - How will we get it done? 13

14 How is Miami-Dade Water & Sewer getting it done? Through Collaboration & Partnerships Department of Energy US Environmental Protection Agency Industry Standards Regional Scorecard H 2 0 Energy Nexus Climate ready utility Effective utility management 10 Attributes J100 AWWA Standard for risk and resilience management of H 2 0 and WW systems ISO certifications Utility of the future Develop Common: Terminology, metrics, consistent methodology to support decision making in allocating public and private resources to reduce risk and critical infrastructure Envision

15 Becoming a resilient utility Provide a compliant, reliable, resilient, & flexible system to respond to catastrophic events Integrate Green & Grey infrastructure for energy optimization Achieve economic and environmental sustainability Maintain ratepayer affordability Develop engineering design standards to adapt to climate change Improve processes and procedures to standardize systems across the utility Implement a Business Process Management Tool to incorporate project quality controls 15

16 Effective Utility Management Product quality Customer satisfaction Employee / leadership development Operational optimization Financial viability Infrastructure stability Operational resiliency Community stability Water resource Stakeholder understanding adequacy and support 16

17 Embracing Technology & Integrating Reliable Data 17

18 Utility of the Future A Smart Utility Using Big Data Analytics Applying Intelligence to Data Descriptive Diagnostic Predictive Prescriptive What actually happened? Why did it happen & Where? When can it happen again? Who is going to make it happen and how? (Adapting & Learning) 18

19 From Static Master Plans to Dynamic Master Plans Playing our CARDS right! Comprehensive and Collaborative Actionable and Adaptive Robust and Resiliency Data and Dynamic Sustainable and Strategic 19

20 The Resiliency Journey Where are you on this path? 4 Compliance Integrate all benefits in the operation of the system 3 2 Evaluate and implement low hanging fruit 1 CARDS aligned. Now a recognized leader: maturation, continuous improvement 5 Non-compliance with jurisdictions within which you operate 20

21 Participative and Collaborative Approach How do we operationalize? How do we reduce & mitigate risks & enhance resilience RESILIENT UTILITY COALITION 21

22 RUC Partners and Roles Academia Professional Organizations Water Industry Utilities Innovation, research and development Dealing with public health. Trial and error is not feasible Opportunity to collaboratively engage in labscale studies, pilots, pursue research grants Best management practices and industry standards Training and education of workforce Advocacy and policy development Networking and engagement Innovative & comprehensive solutions Holistic approach to incorporate resiliency from planning to operations Tech talks Regional scorecard Quarterly roundtable meetings Exchange of resources and materials Preparedness Drills Share best practices and lessons learnt Interlocal Agreements 22

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