The costs of maintenance, repair, and replacement of transmission mains and distribution
system piping that serve urban and rural areas of the United States is expected to exceed $75
billion over the next two decades to ensure that public water systems are capable of delivering
safe drinking water. In many municipalities, available funding is inadequate to meet the costs of
infrastructure replacement or rehabilitation. Infrastructure Management Systems (IMS) have
been developed to assist utilities and decision-makers in planning and resource allocation for
infrastructure. In this case study, a tool for prioritizing infrastructure replacement was developed
based on using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to facilitate analysis of the water
infrastructure managed by the City of Tampa Water Department (TWD). Includes figure.
| Edition : | Vol. - No. |
| File Size : | 1
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| Note : | This product is unavailable in Ukraine, Russia, Belarus |
| Number of Pages : | 5 |
| Published : | 09/01/2006 |
