Culvert Cost Wig On The Road To Drainage Asset Management: Hazmat Spills Response and Ms4 Water Quality
Culvert Cost Wig On The Road To Drainage Asset Management: Hazmat Spills Response and Ms4 Water Quality
Culvert Cost Wig On The Road To Drainage Asset Management: Hazmat Spills Response and Ms4 Water Quality
DrainagePerformanceMeasure
Stormdrainnetworksareusedfor
MS4tasks,andGopherStateOneCall
utilitylocations.
In2008,MaintenanceOperationschoseHydInfratotrack
theirDrainagePerformanceMeasureforhighwayculvert
inventoryandinspection.Soonafter,theinventorywas
completedandhighwayculvertsarenowinspectedona
regularschedule.
GISmapshowsyeartoinspecteachculvert inDistrict8.
HydInfra MnDOTsCulvertandStormDrain
InventoryandInspectionSystem
Itallbeganin1996whenHydraulics/WREengineers createdHydInfrato
improvedrainagedesignwork.HydInfrawasbuiltwithGIStoolsdesignedso
thatpeoplenewtoArcMapcouldqueryfordrainagefeatures,makeamapand
exportthedatatoaspreadsheet.HydInfrassimpleconditionratingcodesbased
onexplicitcriteriafordifferentmaterials,andflagstorecorddefects,makeita
versatileframeworktobuildassetmanagement.on
Extremerainfalland
floodscausedamage
toculverts.GISand
HydInfrahelprecovery
BigStorm+badpipes
=wreckedroad
ProjectScopingand
Predesign
Culvertinspectors
recorddefectsthat
maycauseroadfailure
duringextremerainfall
events.Pipedefects
includeroadvoid,
piping,andholes.
GISlayersfrommanysourcesgive
contexttodrainagedesignwork.
DNRlayersforPublicWaters
illustrateareasthatneed
environmentalpermits.HydInfra
layerswithdrainagefeaturedata
helpspeed
scopingand
predesigntasks,
especiallyin
Winter.
CulvertCostWIG
Maintenancecrewsrepairor
replaceculvertsandrecordthe
labor,equipmentandmaterialsin
amobileappbasedonArcGIS
Collectorsoftware.
ResearchonPipes
andMaterials
Researchfocusingonthe
projectedlifespanofsteel
pipeisunderway.Themap
belowshowsroadsidepH
overlaidonNRCSpHdata.
Acidity,orlowpH,isafactor
insteelpipedeterioration
rates.Theresearchisbeing
donebyBarbaraBurkholder
Heitkamp,UofM
Repairdatacanbeenteredinthe
CulvertCostappwhileinthe
fieldonaniPad,orintheoffice
onaPC.
Repairdataisavailable
immediatelyinwebbased
reportsthatrepaircrewscan
accessfromtherepairsite.
OthersinMnDOTcanfindCulvert
CostReportsbysearchingIHUB
forCulvertCost.
HydInfradataisusedinresearchto
lookatmaterialsandtheirfailure
modes.Inthischart,thedepthof
fillabovethepipeiscorrelatedto
specificpipedefects.
Themapshowsrepairs,
cleaningsandnewinstallationsof
culvertsrecorded inthefirst
seasonofdatacollection.
TheRoadAheadtoDrainage
LifecycleCostAnalysis
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Captureconstructioncostsfordrainagefeaturesfromprojectsby
contractors,alongwithasbuiltdetailsaboutthedrainagefeatures.
GetanEnterpriseAssetManagementsoftwaresolutionthatincludes
GIS,tomergeHydInfraandCulvertCostdatabasesandtointegrate
datafromMnDOTsmanyotherparts,likePavement,Trafficand
MaintenanceOperationsmanyresponsibilities.
Inventoryandinspectstormdrainnetworks,pondsandotherwater
qualitydevicesandallthoseotherfeaturesthatarepartofthe
drainagesystem.
Researchpipematerialstoimproveservicelifepredictions
ProjectLifecyclePerformancetogetthemostbangforthebuck.
(Thatmeansestimatelifespanand schedulerepairorreplacement
beforetheroadwayfails.)
Mapshowsscheduled
constructionprojects
overlaidonPipeSuggested
RepairMethodlayerfrom
HydInfraReports.Cost
effectivedrainagesystem
repairrequirescoordination
withpavingandotherroad
construction
contracts. HydInfrasPipe
SuggestedRepairMethods
usestraitstosortforbad
pipesandapplyafirstpass
repairsuggestion.