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Water and inventory: know every asset, fix before it fails
One asset register and a smart parts inventory, so crews have what they need at 2 a.m.
Idea for assessment, not an approved project
The problem
What residents describe today.
Most of the water system is underground. Problems are often found only when something breaks.
During a main break, crews can lose time looking for the right part.
Evidence
Most water assets are underground, so their condition is hard to see. How complete today's asset records are has not been checked.
The idea
An approach to assess.
- One register of every pipe, valve and hydrant, with its age, material and condition.
- Condition checks first, and renewal planned by risk.
- A parts inventory linked to work orders, with critical spares reserved.
- A 90-day pilot in one neighbourhood and one yard.
Before anything happens
What this idea still needs.
- Tarrabin Consulting's role
- Tarrabin Consulting wrote this idea and can advise on it. We do not run these services and we hold no approval to build them. Any decision belongs to the people and organizations responsible.
- Decisions needed
- Whether a single asset register and linked parts inventory are a priority, who owns the data, and which neighbourhood and yard would test it.
- Next step to test it
- Review the current asset and parts records in one neighbourhood before proposing a 90-day pilot.
- Communities
- Where an idea touches First Nations or Métis communities, those communities decide. Nothing goes ahead without their written mandate, and the Crown's duty to consult stays with the Crown.
Video, 1 min 50 s
Video coming soon
Water you never see until it fails, and how an asset register and parts inventory would work.
Demonstration. Screens show simulated data. People in the video are fictional unless named.
Coming to the Tarrabin Consulting YouTube channel.
Your opinion
Three questions. Under a minute.
Is this a problem for you, and would this idea help? Your answers are counted with everyone else's.
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