Wastewater Collection Systems Management

The Latest Methods for Managing Wastewater Collection Systems This Water Environment Federation resource provides up-to-date guidance on the oversight of wastewater collection systems, including gravity sewers, pumping stations, force mains, and other sewer-conveyance-related facilities. This authoritative volume offers strategies for developing a comprehensive asset-management program that encompasses capacity, management, operations, and maintenance (CMOM) principles as well as the business, engineering, human resource, and communications aspects of a wastewater collection systems project. Wastewater Collection Systems Management, Sixth Edition covers: System operations and maintenance Information management Collection system assessment and capital improvement planning System design considerations Construction contracting Public policy and community relations Budgeting and financial planning Safety, standard procedures, training, and certifications Emergency preparedness and security

The Latest Methods for Managing Wastewater Collection Systems This Water Environment Federation resource provides up-to-date guidance on the oversight of wastewater collection systems, including gravity sewers, pumping stations, force mains, and other sewer-conveyance-related facilities. This authoritative volume offers strategies for developing a comprehensive asset-management program that encompasses capacity, management, operations, and maintenance (CMOM) principles as well as the business, engineering, human resource, and communications aspects of a wastewater collection systems project. Wastewater Collection Systems Management, Sixth Edition covers: System operations and maintenance Information management Collection system assessment and capital improvement planning System design considerations Construction contracting Public policy and community relations Budgeting and financial planning Safety, standard procedures, training, and certifications Emergency preparedness and security

Serves as a systems guide and includes principles of operation and management in an effort to assist collection systems managers in establishing or reorganizing their systems operations. Offers procedures, practices, and guidelines for operating, maintaining, and establishing or reestablishing waste

FROM THE PREFACE Wastewater collection systems are dynamic, not static. There is no single maintenance method, equipment, or technique that works best. Keeping an open mind, trying new techniques and technologies benefits sewer system operators. No two collection systems are alike. Maintenance staffing, skill levels, equipment, budgets, age and complexity of the system make each agency unique. However, collection systems do have many traits and problems in common. Based on inventory and analysis, problems are identified. Defects may then be prioritized, and corrective maintenance operations put into effect. Preventive maintenance techniques can be applied to all collection systems. Preventive maintenance is cost-effective; it strives to prevent problems from occurring rather than reacting to difficult situations and "putting out fires." This book examines problems shared by all agencies: roots, grease, deterioration, hydraulic inefficiencies and structural defects. New solutions to age-old problems are applied: TV inspection and video interpretation, rehabilitation analysis and trenchless technologies. Computerized maintenance management and GIS softwares are discussed. Jetting, line cleaning and exciting developments in nozzle technology are included. Roots and chemical root control foam, wastewater control and grease are major topics as well. Wastewater Collection System Maintenance shares insights drawn from operator experience, trial and error, successes and failures in the field, interviews and years of research and studies. A user-friendly rating and evaluation system is explained and applied to field conditions. Equipment operation and maintenance, and "tricks of the trade" are also discussed. As cities grow, new systems are extended upstream from older sewers. Many of these core drainage basins are now under capacity and in need of capital improvement projects. There are approximately 600,000 miles of sanitary sewers in the country. Nationwide, there exists a huge backlog of sewer pipes that need rehabilitation. Replacement would cost many billions of dollars. Maintenance operators are entrusted with the care and feeding of an aging sewer infrastructure.

Disc 1 contains an academic version of SewerCAD stand-alone software, featuring exam booklet for continuing eduction credits, and user manual.

The WPCF Wastewater Collection Systems Committee's workshop ... focuses upon the reduction or elimination of sewer overflow and bypassing to reduce pollution and protect public health through innovative approaches and techniques. Participants has opportunity to learn what organizations with successful safety programs have done, including analysis of information from these agencies. The progress of sewer renovation system testing was also discussed, as well as abatement programs. The workshop presented a forum in which new ideas are exchanged. It was designed to present overviews rather than solutions.