Eastern Municipal Water District
The Eastern Municipal Water District (District) is currently enhancing its asset management program to gain understanding of its future capital investment needs to sustain the delivery of water, wastewater, and recycled water services. With over 4,000 miles of pipe and over 260 facilities, the District needed a way to estimate the future needs of its infrastructure. As part of this effort, the District worked with Kayuga to develop a Replacement and Rehabilitation Planning Model (RRPM) to calculate the life cycle costs and estimate the timing and magnitude of future Replacement and Rehabilitation (R&R) needs. The goal of this project was to increase confidence of the future capital investment needs projection. The results of the RRPM will feed into the District’s financial model to assess the sustainability of the District’s financial plan.
The District first initiated the RRPM development efforts in 2014. The first attempt tried to utilize the asset information in the District’s CMMS and GIS. However, the asset data in the District’s CMMS for some facilities, especially its treatment plants, was not complete. As such, the District decided to utilize the higher-confidence cost data recorded in the District’s financial system (Oracle Financial Information System), as well as recent facility construction project costs. The total facility costs were distributed to corresponding asset classes (e.g., electrical, mechanical, structure) within each facility using schedules of values from recent construction projects. This distribution of costs allowed the District to plan for its future R&R needs at a high level without the need for a complete asset inventory for all facilities.
Life cycle cost logic was developed for each asset class for each facility type (e.g., booster station, lift station, treatment plant). For each year of the planning horizon, RRPM identified the estimated budget required to perform the projected asset rehabilitation or replacement activities. The results of the calculated projections are to be used to develop a sustainable financial plan.
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The District first initiated the RRPM development efforts in 2014. The first attempt tried to utilize the asset information in the District’s CMMS and GIS. However, the asset data in the District’s CMMS for some facilities, especially its treatment plants, was not complete. As such, the District decided to utilize the higher-confidence cost data recorded in the District’s financial system (Oracle Financial Information System), as well as recent facility construction project costs. The total facility costs were distributed to corresponding asset classes (e.g., electrical, mechanical, structure) within each facility using schedules of values from recent construction projects. This distribution of costs allowed the District to plan for its future R&R needs at a high level without the need for a complete asset inventory for all facilities.
Life cycle cost logic was developed for each asset class for each facility type (e.g., booster station, lift station, treatment plant). For each year of the planning horizon, RRPM identified the estimated budget required to perform the projected asset rehabilitation or replacement activities. The results of the calculated projections are to be used to develop a sustainable financial plan.
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