Texas city selects Innovyze water system rehabilitation solution

The water department of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, US, has selected Innovyze’s CapPlan Water software to better manage its water distribution systems.

CapPlan Water software deals with data integrity and processing issues that slow asset management analysis projects.

Innovyze’s CapPlan Water will assist the department in managing the capital planning process for rehabilitation of its underground distribution infrastructure.

Innovyze president and COO Paul Boulos said that CapPlan Water is the only software package that combines GIS, hydraulic modeling, cost and budgeting data, and advanced decision support in one package.

"We look forward to working with the City of Corpus Christi Water Department to ensure CapPlan Water meets the utility’s capital planning needs for years to come," Boulos said.

The water system rehabilitation solution will also assist other water utilities in planning the relative phasing of system upgrades, by allowing users to assess both the probability and consequence of failure for each asset.

The city maintains over 1.1 km³ of storage in two local reservoirs and supplements its supply from Lake Texana through a 101-mile long, 164cm diameter pipeline.

The City of Corpus Christi deputy water director Mark Van Vleck said the Innovyze CapPlan Water solution will enable the City to make smarter rehab decisions.

"We can now utilise all our hydraulic modeling, GIS, and maintenance history to analyse both the likelihood and consequence of failure of every pipe in our system and understand our overall risk," Vleck said.

"The risk ratings allow us to prioritize the pipe replacements and ensure that every dollar spent by our capital program yields the maximum benefit to the community."