Prioritising sewerage maintenance using inferred sewer age: a case study for Edinburgh
1Sustainable Water Management Research Group, School of the Built Environment, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, Scotland, UK. s.arthur@hw.ac.uk
Abstract:
The reported research project focuses on using a database which contains details of customer contacts and CCTV data for a key Scottish catchment to construct a GIS based sewer condition model. Given the nature of the asset registry, a key research challenge was estimating the age of individual lengths of pipe. Within this context, asset age was inferred using the estimated age of surface developments-this involved overlaying the network in a GIS with historical digital maps. The paper illustrates that inferred asset age can reliably be used to highlight assets which are more likely to fail.
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