Category: Technology

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New Service Connections

Vyntelligence provides a platform used by utilities in the UK to collect customer information and document new service connections. The platform allows video to be captured as a communication and documentation tool.

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FYLD: Fieldwork execution platform powered by AI

FYLD is a documentation platform that has been used by utilities globally to better document on-site construction safety through video and data capture of site conditions.

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Advances in Creating a Lead Service Line Inventory

ESRI’s Lead Service Line Inventory Solution configures ArcGIS to create and maintain lead service inventories, conduct material verifications in the field, manage replacement activities, monitor progress, and inform the community. ArcGIS platform is a common GIS tool leveraged in the water sector for maintaining assets.

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A simple cloud-based GIS for municipalities and rural utilities

Diamond Maps is a cloud-based software that serves as a more economical option for smaller and rural utilities for asset management with a GIS tool.

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ArcGIS Survey 123

ArcGIS Survey 123 is an ESRI product that ties directly to the service line inventory. It can be customized as an online portal for the water system’s website to capture survey information and photos from customers and inspectors. Staff can review the results before updating the inventory information.

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Vyn for The Water Industry

Vyntelligence provides a platform that can be used to capture photos and videos from customers to verify service line materials on the private side.

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LCRR Data Management, Service Line Material Prediction, and Interactive Dashboards for the Middlesex Water Company

Middlesex Water Company leveraged predictive modeling to reduce their unknowns by 40%, saving significant effort and rapidly identifying inventory materials.

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Viken Detection. Detection technology that preys on threats

Viken Detection’s XRF – PB200 x-ray imaging technology can be used to detect lead service lines without excavation.

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Tackling Lead Contamination: How Water Utility Companies and Citizens Can Unite to Ensure Safe Drinking Water

Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) is a non-invasive technology that uses electromagnetic waves to detect and map subsurface structures with high levels of accuracy.

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Swordfish: Combined buried lead pipe detection and leak location in one unit

Swordfish identifies lead pipes using an auto-fed cable and low-voltage conductivity probe that goes in the pipe, without the need for excavation.

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Milwaukee is one of the few cities in the country with a prioritization plan to ensure neighborhoods likely to suffer the most severe impacts from lead poisoning get their pipes replaced first. In consultation with a community-based group, Coalition for Lead Emergency (COLE), and following a public engagement process, Milwaukee included in an ordinance three indicators to prioritize where LSLs will be removed first:

  1. The area deprivation index (ADI), which is a compilation of social determinants of health
  2. The percentage of children found to have elevated lead levels in their blood when tested for lead poisoning
  3. The density of lead service lines in the neighborhood.

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