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Development of an effective winter operations plan can be a good start before proposing operational changes. Not only can it help guide many of your decisions, but since the document will ideally be based upon the expectations of your elected body and the public, it should help support any goals you are striving to achieve.
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The Towns of Wakefield and Needham, MA automated the processing of snow plow contractor tracking, invoicing and reporting with web-based tools with tremendous success. This session will review and summarize three full-seasons of real New England snow operations data and how web-based tools can impact documentation and data processing.
Read MoreJoin this program, brought to you by the APWA Water Resources Committee to learn about tools to help you develop a formal asset management system.
Each discipline within Public Works operations have assets for which we are responsible. Those assets vary from community to community. Public Works professionals have been managing them for years; so why do we need to develop a formal asset management system? This session will address how a formal system will benefit your operations, how to begin a formal asset management system, how to utilize computer based software as part of your formal asset management system and include another public entity’s lessons learned.
Read MoreDon’t miss this opportunity to hear how three Minnesota Cities/Counties are implementing asset management to weather the storm of challenges facing today’s facility managers. Discover what tools they are using and how they are able to sustainably support, plan for, budget, and implement capital improvements, long-term.
Read MoreDamages caused by debris flows average 47% of the total costs of response and recovery efforts. A debris flow is a mass of loose mud, sand, soil, rock, water, and air that travels down a slope. Join us for a discussion on how new technologies are revolutionizing debris management through mobile applications, virtual monitoring, and real-time weather telemetry.
Read MoreThis three-part presentation describes culvert failure modes, improved culvert inspection technology, and the cost of repairs. The Minnesota Department of Transportation uses state-of-the-art technology and best practices for its culvert inspection system. They also use a mobile app to capture repair cost data for several types of culvert maintenance.
Read MoreWorkshop Wednesday: Capital Improvement Planning Processes – Executing Processes for Successful Comm
For those tasked with developing a successful capital improvement program, this is a must attend presentation. We’ll review the required elements for a successful CIP; organizing stakeholders and getting support from the city council and public; preparing financial forecasts and project estimates; inventorying assets and identifying community needs, criteria for ranking projects, drafting CIP documents and living documents; project implementation steps and other considerations.
Read MoreThe Moorpark Desalter Project will extract the high salinity groundwater from the shallow aquifer at a newly constructed well field and then treat the water at a state-of-the-art desalination plant using membrane filtration technology for the removal of salts including chloride, total dissolved solids, boron, and sulfate.
Read MoreThe City of Minneapolis Water Treatment and Distribution completed a two-phase vulnerability assessment. It provided a holistic and quantitative review of a broad range of risks and vulnerabilities including physical and cyber security, dependencies, natural hazards and source water quality and quantity management.
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