Mainline Sewer Inspection

Interested in Inspection?

Get Inspection articles, news and videos right in your inbox! Sign up now.

Inspection + Get Alerts

Software organizes sewer inspections

Problem

The City of Wheaton (Ill.) worked with RJN Group, a consulting, engineering and information technology service, to rehabilitate a sewer service area. The project involved televising the mains and dye-flooding adjacent storm sewers. The city needed inspection management software that collected and shared inspection data with RJN and the City’s GIS.

 

Solution

The city chose management asset modules from I.T.pipes to identify leaking laterals, lateral connections, and flow migration in annular spaces between host pipes and CIPP liners. Expeditious data collection allowed for enhanced evaluation and direct integration with city GIS. Free viewIT software enabled RJN engineering staff to access the inspection information. The program also enables flexible searches and builds reports to assess and catalog information.

 

Result

The city sewer superintendent configured the software to store information on rehabilitations and planning using SmartTabs reporting tools. As inspection reports arrive, the software categorizes them real-time. 877/487-4737; www.itpipes.com.

 

Inspection software increases functionality

Problem

Sewer inspection technicians in Olathe, Kan., used WinCan v8 software from Pipeline Analytics to enter data for upload to a Master SQL database accessible via City Server. The city wanted greater accuracy and versatility in its inspections, and purchased the WinCan map module to enhance the reporting module.

 

Solution

The map module opens GIS shape files and associated attribute data, allowing users to select assets and transfer information directly into databases, saving time and eliminating manual-entry errors. Correlating inspection data to map features is easy. The software also lets users add points, lines, and shapes to existing files, or output a new GIS shape file with only that data within a custom query. Users can send reports of queried assets to a shape file or highlight them in the map module. Other features include color-coded tracking of multiple inspection crews, sophisticated querying of GIS data, and direct communication with Bluetooth-enabled GPS devices.

 

Result

“WinCan Map enabled us to create a more accurate deliverable that reduces review time and allows for a clean import into our SQL database,” says Randy Mather, wastewater collection program manager. 412/486-6229; www.pipelineanalytics.com.



Discussion

Comments on this site are submitted by users and are not endorsed by nor do they reflect the views or opinions of COLE Publishing, Inc. Comments are moderated before being posted.