PERFORMANCE MAPPING. Introducing REAL-TIME Asset Management for Wastewater Operations. A Live Window into Wastewater Infrastructure Performance

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1 TM PRFORMANC MAPPING Introducing RAL-TIM Asset Management for Wastewater Operations A Live Window into Wastewater Infrastructure Performance

2 PRFORMANC MAPPING A Live and On-Demand Window into Wastewater Infrastructure Performance TM RAL-TIM Asset Management for Wastewater Operations The Merging of Location-Based Sensors with GIS-Centric Asset Management The combination of GIS Mapping and nterprise Asset Management has always been the method of choice for managing wastewater infrastructure systems. astech now provides utility personnel with the necessary final component for making intelligent wastewater management a reality: Performance Mapping. Performance Mapping GIS Performance Mapping technology combines location-based sensors with advanced analytical software to elevate the asset management process from a historically static approach to one that is fully dynamic. Inflow & Infiltration Detection Manhole with Location-Based Sensor Regulatory CSO Compliance Intelligent Operations Center By layering Performance Mapping technology on top of the GIS-centric asset management platform, wastewater administration, engineering and maintenance teams will now gain access to real-time information when making critical where and when decisions that ultimately result in maintaining high organizational levels of service, compliance and risk management. Hydraulic Modeling ngineering Sanitary Sewer Overflows Sewage Back-Up Prevention CMOM Adherence Asset Management Maintenance Inter-Agency Billing Validation Significant-User Billing Shared Infrastructure Billing R AL -TI M AS S T M A N Finance NT M AG Capacity Analysis Cost/Benefit Analysis Grant/Funding Justification 2 Planning 3

3 A Live and On-Demand Window into Wastewater Infrastructure Performance Intelligent Operations Center Inflow & Infiltration Detection Regulatory CSO Compliance Hydraulic Modeling ngineering Sanitary Sewer Overflows Sewage Back-Up Prevention CMOM Adherence Maintenance Inter-Agency Billing Validation Significant-User Billing Shared Infrastructure Billing Finance RAL-TIM ASST MANAGMNT Capacity Analysis Cost/Benefit Analysis Grant/Funding Justification Planning 3

4 MAINTNANC NGINRING Sewer Overflows Basement Flooding CMOM Initiative Asset Integrity Regulatory Compliance Hydraulic Modeling The key to a successful proactive maintenance management program is predictive analytics. The key to predictive analytics is intelligent infrastructure and the key to intelligent infrastructure is real-time information. I AT I IV M D CT AN ALY TIC S -TI RAL M FO IN R After decades of capital investment in infrastructure, cities are now facing a mounting financial burden to sustain their infrastructure through maintenance, repair and replacement. Proactive management of this situation, before it reaches dire-need status, is the objective of Real-Time Performance Mapping. Identifying strategic points where it is more economical to intervene in order to extend the assets expected service life is the basic premise of utilizing predictive analytics. By constantly elevating the condition curve through proactive management principles, the overall asset life cycle is extended. Asset Integrity Regulatory Compliance Hydraulic Modeling Sewer Overflows Basement Flooding CMOM Initiative The primary asset of any wastewater collection system is its underground infrastructure. In many cities, this infrastructure, due to its age, is plagued with integrity problems resulting in the influx of huge amounts of unwanted ground and storm water that ultimately overburden the treatment facility. Commonly referred to as Inflow & Infiltration (I&I), it is a problem that is extremely difficult and expensive to locate and remediate. The U.S. Clean Water Act and the U.S. PA CSO Control Policy require permit holders with combined sewer systems experiencing Combined Sewer Overflows (CSOs) to undertake a process to accurately characterize their wastewater collection network, demonstrate implementation of the Nine Minimum Controls and develop a Long-Term Control Plan (LTCP). Hydraulic modeling of wastewater collection systems is the cornerstone of asset management. A collection system model should have access to real-time data so as to constantly update the model in order to accurately reflect what the true situation is on the ground. Unfortunately, up to the present, this has not been technologically efficient or economically practical. Municipalities are insured for claims resulting from residential and commercial sanitary sewer back-ups. Nevertheless, these residential back-ups damage homes and businesses and threaten the health of any individual directly subjected to their effects. In addition, municipal insurance costs normally rise in direct proportion to the number of claims filed. CMOM is the U.S. nvironmental Protection Agency (PA) acronym that stands for Capacity, Management, Operations and Maintenance. It is the basis for developing regulations that will in the very near future become minimum permit requirements for the capital programs, operation and maintenance of all wastewater collection systems. Performance Mapping s CoSIM technology (Combined Sewer Infrastructure Management) includes the ability for initiating within the asset management platform a real-time sensor-based monitoring program that measures the frequency, duration, flow rate, volume and pollutant concentration discharge of each CSO event. The data is then analyzed for utilization within a cost study specifically targeted at evaluating the feasibility of either expanding the local treatment facility, decreasing the current volumes of I&I or constructing underground retention basins. Due to current advances in locationbased sensor technology, Performance Mapping s Hydraview program provides wastewater collection system modelers with the ability to empirically, rather than theoretically, calibrate collection network models utilizing real-time geospatial data. HydraView performance analysis software provides a new and highly cost-efficient solution for model calibration by ascertaining flows, pinpointing capacity issues, detecting and measuring I&I and recording SSO/CSO events as they occur. Sanitary Sewer Overflows (SSOs) are releases of untreated sewage into the environment and in addition to always having been illegal under the Clean Water Act, they are subject to large governmental fines. Non-compliance can result in penalties ranging anywhere from $1,000 to $32,500 per incident per day. w The key to environmental compliance is never allowing the event to occur in the first place. astech has developed, as part of their Performance Mapping management program, intelligent cellular-based sensor technology capable of proactively alerting operating personnel in real-time of an impending toxic spill weeks before the event actually takes place. Intelligent location-based sensors immediately detect deviations in historically captured performance indicators. This immediacy in response can be critically important when faced with the possibility of huge regulatory agency fines. Location-based sensors, working in conjunction with Performance Mapping s predictive analytics technology and integrated throughout the asset management platform, monitor the impending event in real-time. Municipal maintenance personnel are alerted of a possible basement flooding condition weeks prior to the event actually taking place. Operating as a single, seamless solution, alerts are initiated, work orders are conveyed, event duration is recorded and historical files are compiled for later cost/benefit analysis. The PA, among others, benchmarks the efficiency of wastewater utilities by the improvement in the ratio of preventative to corrective maintenance, making realtime geospatial analytics a key component of managing today s wastewater infrastructure. By including Performance Mapping technology within the GIScentric asset management framework, utilities will acquire huge benefits when migrating from a reactive to a proactive platform. Performance Mapping is a suite of integrated solutions, data sharing capabilities and enterprise adapters to enable real-time data exchange between all utility departments. Performance Mapping incorporates a newly developed software-based technology designated as Delta Q. This advanced technology has the capability to detect, measure and locate finite areas of I&I and embed this real-time knowledge base throughout the entire asset management platform. Location-based sensors, employing a web front end for monitoring, identify each finite area of I&I through a tie-in to cloud computing resources. 4 PR Their responsibility runs the gamut from assurance of asset integrity to maintaining regulatory compliance to providing accurate and dependable hydraulic models that ultimately become the cornerstone of every reliable asset management program. ON Performance Mapping involves the combination of location-based sensors, network connectivity, advanced algorithms and GIS-centric asset management to monitor and analyze real-time inputs for achieving the ultimate goal of a more efficient operation. Municipal engineers, involved with every aspect of wastewater infrastructure, are charged with the task of assuring that this high level of efficiency is constantly maintained. 5

5 MAINTNANC NGINRING Sewer Overflows Basement Flooding CMOM Initiative Asset Integrity Regulatory Compliance Hydraulic Modeling The key to a successful proactive maintenance management program is predictive analytics. The key to predictive analytics is intelligent infrastructure and the key to intelligent infrastructure is real-time information. I AT I IV M D CT AN ALY TIC S -TI RAL M FO IN R After decades of capital investment in infrastructure, cities are now facing a mounting financial burden to sustain their infrastructure through maintenance, repair and replacement. Proactive management of this situation, before it reaches dire-need status, is the objective of Real-Time Performance Mapping. Identifying strategic points where it is more economical to intervene in order to extend the assets expected service life is the basic premise of utilizing predictive analytics. By constantly elevating the condition curve through proactive management principles, the overall asset life cycle is extended. Asset Integrity Regulatory Compliance Hydraulic Modeling Sewer Overflows Basement Flooding CMOM Initiative The primary asset of any wastewater collection system is its underground infrastructure. In many cities, this infrastructure, due to its age, is plagued with integrity problems resulting in the influx of huge amounts of unwanted ground and storm water that ultimately overburden the treatment facility. Commonly referred to as Inflow & Infiltration (I&I), it is a problem that is extremely difficult and expensive to locate and remediate. The U.S. Clean Water Act and the U.S. PA CSO Control Policy require permit holders with combined sewer systems experiencing Combined Sewer Overflows (CSOs) to undertake a process to accurately characterize their wastewater collection network, demonstrate implementation of the Nine Minimum Controls and develop a Long-Term Control Plan (LTCP). Hydraulic modeling of wastewater collection systems is the cornerstone of asset management. A collection system model should have access to real-time data so as to constantly update the model in order to accurately reflect what the true situation is on the ground. Unfortunately, up to the present, this has not been technologically efficient or economically practical. Sanitary Sewer Overflows (SSOs) are releases of untreated sewage into the environment and in addition to always having been illegal under the Clean Water Act, they are subject to large governmental fines. Non-compliance can result in penalties ranging anywhere from $1,000 to $32,500 per incident per day. Municipalities are insured for claims resulting from residential and commercial sanitary sewer back-ups. Nevertheless, these residential back-ups damage homes and businesses and threaten the health of any individual directly subjected to their effects. In addition, municipal insurance costs normally rise in direct proportion to the number of claims filed. CMOM is the U.S. nvironmental Protection Agency (PA) acronym that stands for Capacity, Management, Operations and Maintenance. It is the basis for developing regulations that will in the very near future become minimum permit requirements for the capital programs, operation and maintenance of all wastewater collection systems. Performance Mapping s CoSIM technology (Combined Sewer Infrastructure Management) includes the ability for initiating within the asset management platform a real-time sensor-based monitoring program that measures the frequency, duration, flow rate, volume and pollutant concentration discharge of each CSO event. The data is then analyzed for utilization within a cost study specifically targeted at evaluating the feasibility of either expanding the local treatment facility, decreasing the current volumes of I&I or constructing underground retention basins. Due to current advances in locationbased sensor technology, Performance Mapping s Hydraview program provides wastewater collection system modelers with the ability to empirically, rather than theoretically, calibrate collection network models utilizing real-time geospatial data. HydraView performance analysis software provides a new and highly cost-efficient solution for model calibration by ascertaining flows, pinpointing capacity issues, detecting and measuring I&I and recording SSO/CSO events as they occur. Location-based sensors, working in conjunction with Performance Mapping s predictive analytics technology and integrated throughout the asset management platform, monitor the impending event in real-time. Municipal maintenance personnel are alerted to possible basement flooding conditions weeks prior to the event actually taking place. Operating as a single, seamless solution, alerts are initiated, work orders are conveyed, event duration is recorded and historical files are compiled for later cost/benefit analysis. The PA, among others, benchmarks the efficiency of wastewater utilities by the improvement in the ratio of preventative to corrective maintenance, making realtime geospatial analytics a key component for managing today s wastewater infrastructure. By including Performance Mapping technology within the GIScentric asset management framework, utilities will gain huge benefits when migrating from a reactive to a proactive platform. Performance Mapping is a suite of integrated solutions, data sharing capabilities and enterprise adapters to enable real-time data exchange between all utility departments. Performance Mapping incorporates a newly developed software-based technology designated as Delta Q. This advanced technology has the capability to detect, measure and locate finite areas of I&I and embed this real-time knowledge base throughout the entire asset management platform. Location-based sensors, employing a web front end for monitoring, identify each finite area of I&I through a tie-in to cloud computing resources. 4 PR Their responsibility runs the gamut from assurance of asset integrity to maintaining regulatory compliance to providing accurate and dependable hydraulic models that ultimately become the cornerstone of every reliable asset management program. ON Performance Mapping involves the combination of location-based sensors, network connectivity, advanced algorithms and GIS-centric asset management to monitor and analyze real-time inputs for achieving the ultimate goal of a more efficient operation. Municipal engineers, involved with every aspect of wastewater infrastructure, are charged with the task of assuring that this high level of efficiency is constantly maintained. The key to environmental compliance is never allowing the event to occur in the first place. astech has developed, as part of their Performance Mapping management program, intelligent cellular-based sensor technology capable of proactively alerting operating personnel in real-time of an impending toxic spill weeks before the event actually takes place. Intelligent location-based sensors immediately detect deviations in historically captured performance indicators. This immediacy in response can be critically important when faced with the possibility of huge regulatory agency fines. 5

6 PLANNING FINANC Inter-Agency Billing Significant-User Billing Shared Infrastructure Billing Capacity Analysis Cost/Benefit Studies Grant/Funding Applications IN N ST V U D V LOP M NT L INTL IG TI N NV Black & Veatch, one of America s top ten environmental engineering firms, in their 2012 Report entitled Strategic Directions in the U.S. Water Industry, analyzed responses from a broad cross-section of qualified water and wastewater specialists. When asked to rate the importance of major industry issues, survey respondents considered aging water and sewer infrastructure as the most important issue facing the industry. 60% of the respondents stated that in the future, technologies to increase efficiency and manage assets more effectively will be the areas given the most emphasis. Real-Time Performance Mapping creates an Intelligent Operations Hub that provides wastewater infrastructure planning departments with critical insights into collection system assets along with the condition of those assets and their daily performance characteristics. Inter-Agency Billing Significant-User Billing Shared Infrastructure Billing Capacity Analysis Cost/Benefit Studies Grant/Funding Applications Performance Mapping location-based metering systems utilize the identical technology presently employed for high accuracy custody transfer measurement of hydrocarbons and natural gas. To ensure consistency with actual field conditions existing within the wastewater network, each metering system is provided with NIST traceable flow calibration certification prior to installation. Performance Mapping Metering Systems, in conjunction with Flow Analysis Reporting Software, are a significant tool for adding thousands of dollars to a city s revenue stream. Utilizing Performance Mapping technology, wastewater flows entering a local collection system from a neighboring community can now be accurately measured and annually invoiced for fair share reimbursement of treatment costs. Wastewater collection capacity issues, whether due to population changes or the effects of inflow and infiltration, are immediately brought to light in real-time. Performance Mapping technology, utilized in conjunction with hydraulic modeling, provides planning teams with a new and highly cost-efficient solution for ascertaining flows and pinpointing capacity issues as they occur within the collection system at a fraction of the cost of conventional methods. You cannot manage what you do not measure! When cities and utilities decide to invest in wastewater infrastructure, upper management naturally wants to know how much they will save; how long these savings will last; and finally, was the investment absolutely necessary in the first place. Real-Time Performance Mapping assists both utilities and cities to optimize maintenance and replacement cycles, cost-effectively assure that the collection network runs smoothly, and accurately predict capital funding needs over an extended planning horizon. When combined with Performance Mapping Flow Analysis Reporting Software, finance and operations managers are presented with a clear picture of exactly what is transpiring, in real-time, throughout the collection system environment. Detailed information contained in each Analysis Report may be employed as a proactive tool to identify areas of inflow & infiltration, impending maintenance problems, illegal discharges and inherent weaknesses residing within the overall system. 6 R Finance managers, entrusted with the responsibility for either disbursing city funds for treatment services or collecting revenues from significant commercial users and neighboring communities, realize that when the treatment meter cash register rings, the charges must be unquestionably accurate. astech s fully integrated billing system, employing high performance sensors in conjunction with real-time flow analysis reporting software, creates the potential for both lowering treatment costs and increasing revenues. G Wastewater billing meters, whether for inter-agency billing purposes or collecting fair share revenue reimbursements from significant commercial users, large industrial complexes and neighboring communities that utilize an adjoining community s collection system to transport their wastewater to a local treatment facility, are the cash registers of the wastewater industry. Wastewater treatment facility operations are financed solely through service charges to participating communities that have contracted with the Authority for sewage disposal at a fixed rate per gallon. In order to enable a municipality to collect a fair share user charge from significant commercial and industrial facilities discharging to the system, a dedicated location-based metering system is required at the exiting point of the significant-users facility. Graphically displayed Discharge Analysis Reports, generated on a monthly basis, describe in detail actual volumetric flow along with treatment reimbursement charges for each monitored site. The lack of accurate metering methods when one community s wastewater must travel through a neighboring municipality s collection infrastructure en route to the regional treatment facility will usually result in increased treatment costs for one of the participating parties. This is why it is so important that reliable, real-time data be presented for reimbursement rather than estimates based upon average population. Proprietary algorithms, embedded within the Performance Mapping metering system, compile real-time flow data and then convert this information into cost form for presentation of payment to the neighboring municipality. By adding real-time information to the overall asset platform, the accuracy of hydraulic models is greatly improved through one s ability to now empirically, rather than theoretically, ascertain actual conditions residing within the infrastructure system. Performance Mapping offers planners and engineers the capability for concretely verifying hydraulic assumptions through a real-time window into wastewater infrastructure performance. The determination of cost savings requires both accurate current and historical data. Real-time intelligence at multiple points within the collection grid provides a strong decision tool for operations planners to better decide whether it is more cost-efficient to defer action rather than remediate or replace infrastructure within the problematic area. By more clearly defining, through the use of real-time data, the necessity for implementing infrastructure rehabilitation projects, the reliability and ultimate savings factor for efficiency investments is exponentially increased. The high up front costs of capital acquisition often dominate the capital improvement planning process. The better the support data, the more reliable the financial forecast. The more reliable the financial forecast, the better the chances become for obtaining funding through state grants, local grants and Federal assistance programs. Along with the ability to accurately identify and value assets, Performance Mapping provides the necessary support data for analytical confirmation of asset condition, performance and current and future capacity requirements. 7

7 PLANNING FINANC Inter-Agency Billing Significant-User Billing Shared Infrastructure Billing Capacity Analysis Cost/Benefit Studies Grant/Funding Applications IN N ST V U D V LOP M NT L INTL IG TI N NV Black & Veatch, one of America s top ten environmental engineering firms, in their 2012 Report entitled Strategic Directions in the U.S. Water Industry, analyzed responses from a broad cross-section of qualified water and wastewater specialists. When asked to rate the importance of major industry issues, survey respondents considered aging water and sewer infrastructure as the most important issue facing the industry. 60% of the respondents stated that in the future, technologies to increase efficiency and manage assets more effectively will be the areas given the most emphasis. Real-Time Performance Mapping creates an Intelligent Operations Hub that provides wastewater infrastructure planning departments with critical insights into collection system assets along with the condition of those assets and their daily performance characteristics. Inter-Agency Billing Significant-User Billing Shared Infrastructure Billing Capacity Analysis Cost/Benefit Studies Grant/Funding Applications Performance Mapping location-based metering systems utilize the identical technology presently employed for high accuracy custody transfer measurement of hydrocarbons and natural gas. To ensure consistency with actual field conditions existing within the wastewater network, each metering system is provided with NIST traceable flow calibration certification prior to installation. Performance Mapping Metering Systems, in conjunction with Flow Analysis Reporting Software, are a significant tool for adding thousands of dollars to a city s revenue stream. Utilizing Performance Mapping technology, wastewater flows entering a local collection system from a neighboring community can now be accurately measured and annually invoiced for fair share reimbursement of treatment costs. Wastewater collection capacity issues, whether due to population changes or the effects of inflow and infiltration, are immediately brought to light in real-time. Performance Mapping technology, utilized in conjunction with hydraulic modeling, provides planning teams with a new and highly cost-efficient solution for ascertaining flows and pinpointing capacity issues as they occur within the collection system at a fraction of the cost of conventional methods. You cannot manage what you do not measure! When cities and utilities decide to invest in wastewater infrastructure, upper management naturally wants to know how much they will save; how long these savings will last; and finally, was the investment absolutely necessary in the first place. Real-Time Performance Mapping assists both utilities and cities to optimize maintenance and replacement cycles, cost-effectively assure that the collection network runs smoothly, and accurately predict capital funding needs over an extended planning horizon. When combined with Performance Mapping Flow Analysis Reporting Software, finance and operations managers are presented with a clear picture of exactly what is transpiring, in real-time, throughout the collection system environment. Detailed information contained in each Analysis Report may be employed as a proactive tool to identify areas of inflow & infiltration, impending maintenance problems, illegal discharges and inherent weaknesses residing within the overall system. 6 R Finance managers, entrusted with the responsibility for either disbursing city funds for treatment services or collecting revenues from significant commercial users and neighboring communities, realize that when the treatment meter cash register rings, the charges must be unquestionably accurate. astech s fully integrated billing system, employing high performance sensors in conjunction with real-time flow analysis reporting software, creates the potential for both lowering treatment costs and increasing revenues. G Wastewater billing meters, whether for inter-agency billing purposes or collecting fair share revenue reimbursements from significant commercial users, large industrial complexes and neighboring communities that utilize an adjoining community s collection system to transport their wastewater to a local treatment facility, are the cash registers of the wastewater industry. Wastewater treatment facility operations are financed solely through service charges to participating communities that have contracted with the Authority for sewage disposal at a fixed rate per gallon. In order to enable a municipality to collect a fair share user charge from significant commercial and industrial facilities discharging to the system, a dedicated location-based metering system is required at the exiting point of the significant-users facility. Graphically displayed Discharge Analysis Reports, generated on a monthly basis, describe in detail actual volumetric flow along with treatment reimbursement charges for each monitored site. The lack of accurate metering methods when one community s wastewater must travel through a neighboring municipality s collection infrastructure en route to the regional treatment facility will usually result in increased treatment costs for one of the participating parties. This is why it is so important that reliable, real-time data be presented for reimbursement rather than estimates based upon average population. Proprietary algorithms, embedded within the Performance Mapping metering system, compile real-time flow data and then convert this information into cost form for presentation of payment to the neighboring municipality. By adding real-time information to the overall asset platform, the accuracy of hydraulic models is greatly improved through one s ability to now empirically, rather than theoretically, ascertain actual conditions residing within the infrastructure system. Performance Mapping offers planners and engineers the capability for concretely verifying hydraulic assumptions through a real-time window into wastewater infrastructure performance. The determination of cost savings requires both accurate current and historical data. Real-time intelligence at multiple points within the collection grid provides a strong decision tool for operations planners to better decide whether it is more cost-efficient to defer action rather than remediate or replace infrastructure within the problematic area. By more clearly defining, through the use of real-time data, the necessity for implementing infrastructure rehabilitation projects, the reliability and ultimate savings factor for efficiency investments is exponentially increased. The high up front costs of capital acquisition often dominate the capital improvement planning process. The better the support data, the more reliable the financial forecast. The more reliable the financial forecast, the better the chances become for obtaining funding through state grants, local grants and Federal assistance programs. Along with the ability to accurately identify and value assets, Performance Mapping provides the necessary support data for analytical confirmation of asset condition, performance and current and future capacity requirements. 7

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