Track 5

Monday, March 12 – AM Sessions
Track 5: Asset Management – Session Leader: Marc Lehmann, CDM
Time Paper ID Industry Segment Paper Title Author(s) Brief
9:30 AM A-5-01 Wastewater St. Albert CCTV Inspection and Sewer Rehabilitation Program Dan Willems, City of Saskatoon; Dave Krywiak, Stantec Consulting Ltd.; Todd Wyman and Dan Rites, City of St. Albert This paper describes St. Albert’s sewer asset management strategy, which involves an annual inspection program, condition assessment, prioritization of repair needs, an annual sewer rehabilitation program and moving these programs forward into the future.
9:55 AM A-5-02 Water Condition Assessment and Management of Critical Watermains in the City of Ottawa Kevin Bainbridge, Robinson Consultants Inc; Steve Dover, Fern Marcuccio and Shelley McDonald, City of Ottawa This paper presents the City of Ottawa’s approach to the network wide assessment of critical pipes¸ including their findings and lessons learned.
10:20 AM A-5-03 Wastewater Lesson Learned About External Corrosion that Lead to an Outfall Sewer Collapse Renni Zhao and Steve Bian, DC Water; John Marshall, J.W. Marshall & Associates Inc.; and Paul Fisk, NDT Corp. This paper describes how to apply a wide range of direct and indirect techniques to determine the reason for the pipe failure and to determine the properties of the soil environment with a sound approach for developing an asset management plan for non-reinforced sewer systems.
10:45 AM A-5-04 Water Advances in Water Pipeline Condition Assessment Cliff Jones, Wachs Water Services This paper addresses the state-of-the industry in condition assessment of water infrastructure in North America using a ten-step model and reviews the latest technologies available for inspecting and condition assessment of watermains.
11:10 AM A-5-05 Water/Wastewater Applying Risk Management and Financial Analysis to Asset Management Planning Pierre Levesque, Solutions Modex and William DiTullio, InfraMetrix, LLC This paper describes how a long-term master plan can deliver major savings and establish a clear relationship between budget and level of service.

Monday, March 12 – PM Sessions
Track 5: Condition Assessment & Pipeline Inspection – Session Leader: Dorian Modjeski, Cardon TBE
Time Paper ID Industry Segment Paper Title Author(s) Brief
3:45 PM B-5-01 Wastewater Hydraulic Analysis, Inspection and Condition Assessment of the City of San Diego PS65 Force Main Monika Smoczynski, P.E., City of San Diego and Gary Skipper, P.E., Brown and Caldwell This paper describes the work efforts and results associated with the pressure gauging, hydraulic analysis, external and internal inspection and structural condition assessment of the City of San Diego Pump Station No. 65 Force Main to accommodate PS65 capacity expansion to adequately handle peak wet-weather flows.
4:10 PM B-5-02 Gas Robotic Inline Inspection of Unpiggable Natural Gas Pipeline with Explorer Rod Lee, Pipetel Technologies Inc. This paper describes a robotic technology that allows pipeline operators to perform inline inspection of unpig-gable natural gas pipelines that cannot be inspected by conventional inline inspection tools (pigs).
4:35 PM B-5-03 Wastewater Laser Profiling – A Case Study in Field Accuracy John, Paul, Travis and Jim Shelton, Malcolm Pirnie This paper presents the findings of various laser profiling efforts, their accuracies vs. actual measurements and potential reasons for the differences.
5:00 PM B-5-04 Wastewater Are Sewer Lateral Inspections Cost-effective? Jeffrey Griffiths, Hydromax USA and George Pendleton, Kleinfelder/SEA Consultants This paper discusses lateral inspection techniques, data output and how data is used to support rehabilitation recommendations that provide the client with a cost-desirable solution.

Tuesday, March 13 – AM Sessions (1st Session)
Track 5: Condition Assessment – Session Leader: Peter Oram, AECOM
Time Paper ID Industry Segment Paper Title Author(s) Brief
8:00 AM C-5-01 Water/Wastewater Separating the Forest from the Trees – The Use of GIS Decision Tool to Make Intelligent Asset Decisions Marc A. Lehmann, P.E. and Rod Moeller, P.E., CDM; and C. Timothy Fallara, City of Columbus, DOSD This paper shares lessons learned from several Midwest sewer projects that managed complex data sets to develop a cost-effective and prioritized long-term plan.
8:25 AM C-5-02 Wastewater Direct Benefits of Undertaking Multi-sensor Inspections for Large Diameter Sewers David Crowder, R.V.Anderson Associates Ltd.; Gerry Bauer, Stantec; Erika Waite, City of Hamilton; and Harry Krinas, City of Hamilton This paper reviews the direct benefits of undertaking a multi-sensor inspection for large diameter sewers, the challenges that were overcome and the information that was discovered during the inspections.
8:50 AM C-5-03 Water/Wastewater Using the State-of-the-art Pipeline Condition Assessment Tools to Proper Advantage Ed Kampbell, Jason Consultants This paper shows the range of technologies available, the engineering information they can produce, the relative cost of producing this information, the precision of the information and how to turn this survey information into actionable information for the system owner.
9:15 AM C-5-04 Water/Wastewater Risk-based Condition Assessment of Aqueduct Pipelines Using Multiple Inspection Technologies Andy Dettmer, Mike Fleury and Rick Wheadon, Carollo Engineers; and Adam McKnight, Weber Basin Water Conservancy District This paper presents a risk and condition assessment case study for 26 miles of large diameter raw water pipelines constructed in 1955 near Salt Lake City¸ Utah.
9:40 AM C-5-05 Wastewater Pipeline Inspection and Locating Harry R. Price, P.E., John R. Kosnak, P.E., Senior Project Engineer and Fritz J. Klingler, P.E., NTH Consultants, Ltd.; Adam Slifko, RedZone Robotics; Michael McMahon, P.E., Oakland County Water Resources Commissioners Office; and James Pistilli, P.E., Macomb County Publics Works Commissioners Office This paper discusses the reinspection and locating of the Edison Corridor Interceptor (ECI) portion of the Oakland Macomb Interceptor Drain through the use of a multi-sensor mounted Tracked robotic unit.

Tuesday, March 13 – AM Sessions (2nd Session)
Track 5: Condition Assessment & Pipeline Inspection – Session Leader: Ariamalar Selvakumar, USEPA
Time Paper ID Industry Segment Paper Title Author(s) Brief
10:20 AM D-5-01 Wastewater If Finding and Removing I/I Were Easy Timothy Fallara, P.E., City of Columbus, DOSD and John Schroeder, P.E., CDM This paper discusses how the City of Columbus has made great strides with sewer investigations and engineering evaluations to understand its sanitary sewer systems under dry and wet-weather conditions and the removal of I/I.
10:45 AM D-5-02 Water/Wastewater Manhole Inspection: Way Beyond Surface Level Eric Sullivan, RapidView-IBAK North America This paper describes typical manhole design, the role of the manhole in collection systems, the need for manhole inspection as part of a comprehensive maintenance program, traditional inspection methods, emerging technologies and specific case studies and applications.
11:10 AM D-5-03 Water/Wastewater Implementing Inertial Navigation Technologies Ashan McNealy, Pure Technologies Ltd.; Travis Wagner, Pure Technologies Ltd.; and Greg Fisk, Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission This paper describes inertial navigation systems and implementation and key advantages for use in asset management or rehabilitation programs.
11:35 AM D-5-04 Water/Wastewater Combined Application of Pipe Penetrating Radar and LIDAR for Large Diameter Pipe Inspection Csaba Ekes and Boriszlav Neducza, SewerVUE Technology Corp. The paper illustrates the advantage of combined application of Pipe Penetrating Radar and LIDAR for the inspection of large diameter water and sewer pipes.

Tuesday, March 13 – PM Sessions
Track 5: Condition Assessment – Session Leader: David Crowder, R.V. Anderson Associates Limited
Time Paper ID Industry Segment Paper Title Author(s) Brief
3:30 PM E-5-01 Water/Wastewater Holistic Approach to Condition Assessment of Two Florida Coastal Communities Force Mains – A Case Study Dorian Modjeski, P.E., BCEE, Cardno TBE; Jim Murphy, City of treasure Island, FL; Steve Hallock, City of St. Pete Beach, FL; and Don McCullers, Cardno TBE This paper discusses a cost-effective, holistic approach in performing a condition assessment of 4.2 miles of force mains, which included several subaqueous water crossings including the Intracoastal Waterway, an Outstanding Florida Waterway.
3:55 PM E-5-02 Wastewater Large Diameter Force Main Investigations – Two Level Approach Kenneth Eyre, P.E., PACP and Paul D. Huston, Greeley and Hansen; Gayle Moomaw, PACP, DC Water/Greeley and Hansen; and Renni Zhao, Ph.D., P.E., DC Water This paper presents case study application of a two-level approach for field investigations followed by corrective measures.
4:20 PM E-5-03 Wastewater Sustainable Infrastructure Planning For Long-term Wastewater Force Main Programs Andrew Clothier and Peter Oram, AECOM; and Andrew Kubek, City of Virginia Beach This paper describes the development of a wastewater force main evaluation program including field inspection approach, data analysis and condition assessment results and focuses on the methodology utilized to translate inspection data into a long-term infrastructure management program.
4:45 PM E-5-04 Water Asset Management of Asbestos Cement Pipes Using Acoustic Methods; Theory and Case Studies Marc Bracken, Echologics Engineering Inc. This paper educates water service providers on how they can non-invasively detect leaks and assess the condition of underground water pipes that are lined with asbestos cement to improve their ability to reduce non-revenue water and cost-effectively address asbestos cement in their water systems.
5:10 PM E-5-05 Water/Wastewater Condition Assessment of Conveyance Tunnels – Effective Approaches to Managing Reliability Thomas Hennings and Blake Rothfuss Jacobs Associates and Brian Lakin, South Central Connecticut Regional Water Authority This paper presents several case histories discussing the challenges faced by water and wastewater agencies in maintaining reliability of their conveyance tunnels and the effective methods used today for inspecting, assessing and rehabilitating them.

Wednesday, March 14 – AM Sessions
Track 5: Inflow & Infilitration – Session Leader: John Schroeder, CDM
Time Paper ID Industry Segment Paper Title Author(s) Brief
8:00 AM F-5-01 Wastewater Sewer Rehab Pays in Brentwood Tennessee George E. Kurz, P.E., DEE, and Drew Muirhead, Barge Waggoner Sumner & Cannon and Chris Milton and Kevin Colvett, City of Brentwood This paper describes how a strategically planned sewer rehabilitation program will improve system operation, meet regulatory requirements and save money.
8:25 AM F-5-02 Wastewater Flood Grouting Sanitary Sewers for Infiltration Control Robert Jacobsen, P.E., Brown and Caldwell and Martha Burke, MPA, Seattle Public Utilities This paper describes how the Seattle Public Utilities has initiated a pilot project using flood-grouting to reduce infiltration in the sanitary sewer system to eliminate wet weather overflows.
8:50 AM F-5-03 Wastewater Flow Monitoring and I/I Reduction – Beyond Plain Vanilla Travis E. Wilson, P.E., Littlejohn Engineering Associates, Inc. This paper illustrates the steps taken and results achieved by a Tennessee utility district, which constitutes a complete cycle of a comprehensive I/I reduction program including long-term planning, temporary and permanent flow monitoring, system prioritization, trenchless rehabilitation techniques and innovative electronic documentation.
9:15 AM F-5-04 Wastewater Effective Inflow/Infiltration Reduction Utilizing Cured-In-Place Pipe Lining Jon Putnam, GHD Consulting Engineers, LLC This paper discusses the benefits, advantages and lessons learned in utilizing CIPP lining to effectively reduce I/I, reduce project costs, and minimize social and environmental impacts.
9:40 AM F-5-05 Wastewater Ways of Reducing I&I During Hard Economic Times Vanessa Nedrick¸ P.E.¸ MSEM, Remington¸ Venick & Beach This paper describes how the owners of infrastructure can inspect their sanitary sewer systems to assess the condition while reducing inflow and infiltration in a cost effective way.