WARP - water mains renewal planner

Design, Development, Dynamic Analysis, and Control of a Pipe Crawling Robot

Well functioning water networks are essential to the sustainability of a community. Large transmission and distribution water mains are often the most sensitive components of these networks since their failure can be catastrophic. Furthermore, due to the high cost of these pipes, the system does not usually provide redundancy to enable decommission for maintenance and rehabilitation. Hence, fai...

Funding Infrastructure Renewal Plan for Water Distribution System

Canadian municipalities spend $12 to $15 billion annually on infrastructure but it never seems to be enough. Moreover, some municipal water systems in Canada were installed over 100 years ago. The challenge of funding infrastructure renewal is not really a financial challenge so much as it is a planning challenge. The developed funding renewal plan considers several factors and their effect on ...

Forecasting variations and trends in water-main breaks

The effective planning for the renewal of water distribution systems requires accurate quantification of the structural deterioration of water mains. Direct inspection of all water mains in a distribution system is almost always prohibitively expensive. Identifying water main breakage patterns over time is an effective and inexpensive alternative to gauge the structural deterioration of a water...

WaRP: A Reactive Planner Integrated in an Environmental Decision Support System fo Wastewater Treatment Plant Management

In this paper we present an environmental decisionsupport system (named DAI-DEPUR+) and a reactive linear planner (named WaRP), and their application to the wastewater domain. The environmental decision-support system: receives and processes onand off-line information about a wastewater treatment process. uses this information for selecting and revising models of the treatment-system dynamics. ...

Evaluation of Social Instability in Urban Developments, Case Study: Ghaleh Abkooh’s Renewal Plan