Force Main Condition Assessment
5/16/23 at 9:00 AM to 5/16/23 at 10:00 AM
PLAN JPA is sponsoring a webinar on Force Main Condition Assessments. The objectives of this webinar is to familiarize our members with the consequences of force main failures and force main condition assessment as a tool to reduce the risk of these failures. Liability claims from these types of failures can be costly, and a force main assessment could be reimbursed under the PLAN JPA Grant program.
Please join us on May 16th, when Chris Ewers, Principal Engineer at Ewers Engineering, will provide a one-hour introduction to force main condition assessments. Below is an outline for the presentation:
Introduction
- Force main failures in California
- Follow-on costs: Clean Water Act lawsuit outcomes and NGO requirements
- Impact on wastewater agencies
- New requirements from updated WDRs: resilience and condition assessment
Proactive Force Main Management
- Stats: Lifespan of force mains in California/the U.S
- Failure modes
- Condition assessment
- Objectives
- Types/levels
- Overview of tools
- Condition assessment
- Programmatic approach for condition assessment
- Program components and standards
- Setting action levels
- Understanding/incorporating risk
- Common issues for agencies getting started
- Getting help
- Funding: Plan JPA’s Grant Program
- Consultants
- Vendors
Speaker: Chris Ewers, P.E.
Chris has been designing pipelines and pump stations as a civil engineer for more than 24 years, designing for a 100-year service life for force mains. For the last 15 years, he has worked with California sewer agencies to develop a systematic, risk-driven approach to maximize force main service life.
Who Should Attend?
This workshop is intended for supervisors, engineers, risk managers, and wastewater agency management, but anyone involved in wastewater O& M will likely benefit.