Understanding the extent of structural movement and planning remediation requires a myriad of surveys and instrumentation. The challenge is to confidently centralize and interrogate all relevant available data, allowing expenditure plans to be verified, ensuring the issue matches required investment giving you the best chance of budget sign off without compromising on public safety.
Explore how you can super charge your understanding of key trends and points of failure, and demonstrate to FERC that you are ahead of any issues that may lead to potential failure, while providing a return on investment to the company.
Situated in eastern Washington state, the Upriver Hydroelectric Dam on the Spokane River is owned and operated by the City of Spokane’s Water Department. Leading the City’s dam safety and maintenance program is Seth McIntosh, Water System and Hydroelectric Plant Manager, and Jeanne Finger, Chief Dam Safety Engineer.
“Our challenge is to demonstrate to the regulator that we are ahead of any issues that may lead to potential failure, while providing a return on investment to the City and building confidence that there is value in owning this asset. Using Rezatec’s data we can show we have a very solid structure and it’s not moving, so we can focus on the items that need to be updated and spread our lack of maintenance out over several years instead of just piling them up and asking for $15 million in the next three years to fix it.”
Seth McIntosh, Water System and Hydroelectric Plant Manager, City of Spokane Water Department
For nearly a decade Rezatec has pioneered geospatial analytics to help water leaders across the world manage the integrity of their assets with new insights. Today, we enable dam owners, operators and regulators to manage and report on risk, prioritize resources, and keep communities safe. And we bring next-level accuracy to water utility leaders, predicting the highest risk of pipeline failure across entire water networks, enabling them to upgrade infrastructure before breaks occur, cut water loss and repair costs, and justify capital expenditure with new conviction.
Our unique software products, powered by Rezatec’s leading geospatial AI platform, leverage the most comprehensive and robust data sets, combined with world-class AI models and visualizations, making complex data science easy to use.
