Tool Helps Prioritize Sewer Inspections

摘要

The Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF; Alexandria, Va.) recently launched a Web-based tool that provides municipalities with an inexpensive method of prioritizing their sewer inspections. Research by Brown and Caldwell (Walnut Creek, Calif.) under the auspices of the WERF project Development of a Tool To Prioritize Sewer Inspections (stock no. 97CTS7) led to a method that helps utilities identify pipelines at risk of structural and operational failure so that inspections can be strategically focused in the areasrnmost likely to need attention, according to WERF.