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Combined Sewer System Capacity Risk Assessment and Mitigation
The City of Portland, Oregon, Bureau of Environmental Services (BES) recently completed a wastewater sewer system plan to address capacity and structural deficiencies in the combined and separated sewer systems. BES developed this plan by applying asset management principles for business risk (in dollars). Risk is defined as the product of consequence of failure (in dollars) and likelihood of failure (probability). Projects were developed to mitigate the deficiencies and meet BES levels of service (LoS). BES considered impacts of structural and capacity failures, including sinkholes from collapsed sewers, basement sewer backups, surface flooding, and emergency repairs. This paper focuses on the assessment and mitigation of capacity risk by describing 1) the modeling system used to characterize and develop alternatives for mitigating the capacity LoS deficiencies and 2) how asset management, risk-based methods were used to select preferred alternatives and prioritize the implementation of recommended projects in the capital improvement program (CIP). These projects will eliminate or significantly reduce street flooding risk and basement sewer backup risk (BSBR) for the 25-year design storm, which is a BES technical LoS related to the protection of public health.
Combined Sewer System Capacity Risk Assessment and Mitigation
The City of Portland, Oregon, Bureau of Environmental Services (BES) recently completed a wastewater sewer system plan to address capacity and structural deficiencies in the combined and separated sewer systems. BES developed this plan by applying asset management principles for business risk (in dollars). Risk is defined as the product of consequence of failure (in dollars) and likelihood of failure (probability). Projects were developed to mitigate the deficiencies and meet BES levels of service (LoS). BES considered impacts of structural and capacity failures, including sinkholes from collapsed sewers, basement sewer backups, surface flooding, and emergency repairs. This paper focuses on the assessment and mitigation of capacity risk by describing 1) the modeling system used to characterize and develop alternatives for mitigating the capacity LoS deficiencies and 2) how asset management, risk-based methods were used to select preferred alternatives and prioritize the implementation of recommended projects in the capital improvement program (CIP). These projects will eliminate or significantly reduce street flooding risk and basement sewer backup risk (BSBR) for the 25-year design storm, which is a BES technical LoS related to the protection of public health.
Combined Sewer System Capacity Risk Assessment and Mitigation
Whitaker, David (author) / Gonzalez, Ruben (author) / Adderley, Virgil (author)
Pipelines 2014 ; 2014 ; Portland, Oregon
Pipelines 2014 ; 1875-1884
2014-07-30
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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