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US EPA/ORD Condition Assessment Research for Drinking Water Conveyance Infrastructure
Citation:
ROYER, M. D. US EPA/ORD Condition Assessment Research for Drinking Water Conveyance Infrastructure. Presented at WSAA’s Managing Assets, Water Quality and Energy in a Carbon Constrained Future Conference, Sydney, AUSTRALIA, October 24 - 26, 2011.
Impact/Purpose:
To inform the public.
Description:
This presentation describes research on condition assessment for drinking water transmission and distribution systems that EPA is conducting under the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Aging Water Infrastructure (AWI) Research Program. This research program will help U.S. water infrastructure to be more effectively and sustainably managed. The AWI research program seeks to accomplish this goal by improving and evaluating promising innovative technologies and techniques that will reduce the cost and improve the effectiveness of operation, maintenance, and replacement of aging and failing drinking water and wastewater treatment and conveyance systems. Structural condition assessment of water mains is one of four key research areas in the AWI research program. This presentation will address projects that: document the state of condition assessment technologies; conduct field demonstrations of technologies for leak characterization, average wall thickness, in-line wall condition inspection and external inspection methods; develop a protocol for evaluating innovative inspection technologies; provide guidance on pipe condition curves; and develops a database for condition assessment technologies.