ASTM Int'l to Develop Water Asset Management Standards
December 16, 2007 // Published as a news service by IHS
ASTM International Committee F36 on Technology and Underground Utilities is developing a standard for piping and related support equipment for water and wastewater municipal infrastructure.
Subcommittee F36.60 on Infrastructure Asset Management was formed because the issue of asset management of underground assets of pipeline utilities was an area of confusion for municipalities for many years, said ASTM International.
The scope of the proposed standard includes:
- The standard will provide a general framework for uniformly managing the infrastructure assets associated with community water and wastewater systems.
- Assets included within the scope of the standard include underground water and wastewater pipelines and all related appurtenances as well as above ground components that provide operational support to these underground assets.
- Aspects of asset management covered include evaluating, acquiring, installing, operating, maintaining, renewing and disposing of water and wastewater infrastructure.
- This first standard will not cover in detail the methodologies required to fully implement a water or wastewater asset management program but will document existing resources to use in order to assist agencies in implementing such a program.
- Where no such existing resources are available for specific areas of asset management, detailed guidelines will be developed to address these areas.
Source: ASTM International.