Condition Assessment

Checking the Health of Your Pipes – What You Need to Know

Checking the Health of Your Pipes – What You Need to Know

November 10, 2023 at 12:20 pm 0 comments

By Jeff Griffiths Every four years, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) issues a Report Card for America’s Infrastructure, which depicts the condition and performance of American infrastructure in the familiar form of a school report card. For the first time this century, theRead More

Trusting the Data: Condition Assessment Helps Arizona Town Extend the Life of Critical Main

Trusting the Data: Condition Assessment Helps Arizona Town Extend the Life of Critical Main

November 3, 2023 at 6:35 am 0 comments

By Jason Montgomery, George Schaaf, Britt Klein & Bethany McDonald On a sunny day in May 2022, crews in Gilbert, Arizona, unearthed the crown of a critical water transmission main. Removing cracked concrete mortar from the outside of the bar-wrapped pipe revealed what the teamRead More

A shot of the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority’s customer service and operations center.

Pressure Management Goes Digital

September 5, 2023 at 7:42 am 0 comments

How New Mexico’s Largest Water Utility Is Enhancing Its Distribution System with Pressure Monitoring Tech By Joseph Dryer The dry desert heat of Albuquerque is relentless. However, the largest water utility in New Mexico provides relief with continuous water service. considering options beyond fixed communicationRead More

Best Practices for Condition Assessment Planning

Best Practices for Condition Assessment Planning

June 23, 2023 at 5:45 am 0 comments

By Laura Sproule Across the world many, utilities are facing challenges of aging infrastructure in their drinking water distribution systems. To be able to continue to serve their communities and customers, utilities have been putting an increasing emphasis on effective asset management planning for sustainableRead More

Esri ArcGIS has become a mission-critical enterprise system for local government and water utilities’ core business processes. The distinction between the software application and the GIS is no longer relevant to an end user. They have become one. This is particularly true for ArcGIS utilized by local government organizations for public asset management.

Q&A: Laying the Groundwork with GIS

June 5, 2023 at 6:00 am 0 comments

Can GIS Provide the Foundation for the Water Industry’s Digital Transformation? With all of the digital technology available to water utility professionals these days, it’s important to remember the basics – and their capabilities. But there’s hardly anything basic about Geographic Information Systems (GIS) theseRead More

Cherokee Nation names 120Water LCR database of record

Cherokee Nation names 120Water LCR database of record

May 2, 2023 at 9:59 am 0 comments

In its effort to providing program management tools to rural water systems, 120Water has been selected by the Cherokee Nation as its Lead and Copper Rule (LCR) database of record. The partnership will expand on a successful pilot carried out earlier this year, assisting in the preparation of Lead Service LineRead More

Up in the Clouds: Leveraging New Advancements in AI for Aging Infrastructure

Up in the Clouds: Leveraging New Advancements in AI for Aging Infrastructure

March 24, 2023 at 9:15 am 0 comments

By Chris Dermody, Raja Kadiyala & Ravi Vennelakanti The challenges related to managing sewer collection systems are well understood. These include an ever-growing quantity of sewer inspection videos needing to be assessed and acted upon each year. In the total lifespan of this inspection dataRead More

Badger Meter acquires Syrinix

Badger Meter acquires Syrinix

January 6, 2023 at 1:09 pm 0 comments

Badger Meter, Inc., has announced the acquisition of Syrinix, Ltd., a privately held provider of intelligent water monitoring solutions, for £15 million (~$18.1 million USD), funded with available cash. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in the United Kingdom, Syrinix specializes in high-frequency pressure monitoring and leakRead More

WATCH: Mueller’s Paul Murray joins WF&M Conversations to talk leak monitoring

WATCH: Mueller’s Paul Murray joins WF&M Conversations to talk leak monitoring

August 29, 2022 at 9:58 am 0 comments

Even the smallest leak in a distribution system can cause the loss of thousands of gallons of water each month. To find and address leaks quickly and efficiently, utilities are now turning to innovative leak detection technology to enhance monitoring and early detection efforts. InRead More

Transmission Line Condition Assessment

Transmission Line Condition Assessment

June 24, 2022 at 1:06 pm 0 comments

How Best Practices Discussed in ASCE’s MOP 134 Are Essential to Both Condition Assessment and Asset Management Personnel By George Ruchti In the early morning hours of August 19, 2000, a natural gas transmission pipeline ruptured and ignited in New Mexico killing 12 people campingRead More