Transcript TRENCHLESS INSTALLATIONS UNMARKED SEWER LINES & Dan Weaklend

TRENCHLESS INSTALLATIONS
&
UNMARKED SEWER LINES
Dan Weaklend
NPL Construction Company
AGENDA
• WHO IS NPL?
• THE ISSUE
• STATUS TODAY:
– State Legislation
– LDC Policies and procedures
– Industry Association Involvement
“NPL Quality – The Pipeline To Success”
WHO IS NPL?
Core Business:
• The safe installation &
maintenance of reliable energy
distribution systems
• Over 500 crews
• Over 2400 employees
• Operate in 20 states
• One of the largest users of One
Call Centers in U.S.
“NPL Quality – The Pipeline To Success”
NEW AND REPLACEMENT
FOOTAGE
16
14
Millions
12
10
6.05
8
6
5.45 5.56 5.62 5.46
8.34
6.96 6.86
6.30
7.25
6.05
4
2
5.46 5.73 5.83 5.28 5.54 5.82
4.36 4.31 4.09 3.96 4.55
0
1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
New
Replaced
NPL CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE
XCEL
AQ
•CNP
•DEA
•GMG
BHC
ATMOS
•SWG
•XCEL
•SWG
•SWG
•CU
•SWG
•SWG
•Nicor
•NIPSCo
Peoples
•KGS
•KGS
• KGS
•ONG
•APS
•AGL
•SWG
•ATMOS
SO CAL
SRP
• CPS
“NPL Quality – The Pipeline To Success”
•EE
•NUI
•BGE
•WGL
NPL LOCATION MAP
AGENDA
• WHO IS NPL?
• THE ISSUE
• STATUS TODAY:
– State Legislation
– LDC Policies and procedures
– Industry Association Involvement
“NPL Quality – The Pipeline To Success”
“THE OFTEN FORGOTTEN
UNDERGROUND WORLD”
MANY MORE UTILITIES ARE
INSTALLED USING TRENCHLESS
TECHNOLOGY
POSSIBLE SCENARIO?
Who’s responsible
for marking?
Sewer
Main
Lateral to
mains
connection
What could
happen?
New
service
Line
City
street
House
Property
line
GAS LINE IN A 6” SEWER
GAS LINE + SEWER LINE +
ROTARY-ROOTER = DISASTER
THE EXPOSURE
LOW FREQUENCY
HIGH SEVERITY
THE BIG CONCERNS
1. Catastrophic human tragedy
2. Huge costs
SEWER LINES NEED TO BE MARKED,
JUST LIKE ALL OTHER UTILITIES
INSTALLATION SOLUTIONS
• All underground
facilities, including
sewer lines, should
be marked by the
entity that receives
revenue from the
facility.
• All new sewer
laterals should be
installed with a
location device (i.e.
tracer wire, marker
balls, etc.).
AGENDA
• WHO IS NPL?
• THE ISSUE
• STATUS TODAY:
– State Legislation
– LDC Policies and procedures
– Industry Association Involvement
“NPL Quality – The Pipeline To Success”
STATES THAT HAVE UPDATED
ONE CALL LAWS
ARIZONA
GEORGIA
MINNESOTA
NEVADA
OREGON
VIRGINIA
WISCONSIN
“NPL Quality – The Pipeline To Success”
STATES UPDATING LAWS
ARIZONA
GEORGIA
KANSAS
NEVADA
WISCONSIN
“NPL Quality – The Pipeline To Success”
STATES WITH CHAMPIONS
STARTING GRASS ROOTS EFFORTS
NEED SUPPORT
CALIFORNIA
COLORADO
INDIANA
TENNESSEE
TEXAS
WASHINGTON
“NPL Quality – The Pipeline To Success”
GOOD STATE PROSPECTS
IN NEED OF A CHAMPION
ILLINOIS
IOWA
MARYLAND
OHIO
OKLAHOMA
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AGENDA
• WHO IS NPL?
• THE ISSUE
• STATUS TODAY:
– State Legislation
– LDC Policies and procedures
– Industry Association Involvement
“NPL Quality – The Pipeline To Success”
LDC POLICIES AND
PROCEDURES
• LARGE WEST COAST LDC HAS POLICY OF
REQUIRING AND ENFORCING THAT EVERY
MAIN AND SEWER LATERAL BE DAYLIGHTED
BEFORE EXCAVATING
• MIDWEST LDC HAS POLICY OF REQUIRING
AND ENFORCING THAT All SEWERS ARE PRELOCATED (CAMERA’D) BEFORE GAS IS
INTRODUCED
• SOUTHEAST LDC HAS COMPLETED A
SYSTEM REVIEW USING CAMERAS
CAMERA IN ACTION
LDC POLICIES AND
PROCEDURES
• LARGE SOUTHWEST LDC HAS:
– CAMERA PROGRAM TO IDENTIFY PAST
INSTALLATION ISSUES
– POLICY REQUIRING AND ENFORCING THAT
EVERY SEWER MAIN AND LATERAL BE
LOCATED BEFORE EXCAVATING
AGENDA
• WHO IS NPL?
• THE ISSUE
• STATUS TODAY:
– State Legislation
– LDC Policies and procedures
– Industry Association Involvement
“NPL Quality – The Pipeline To Success”
INDUSTRY ORGANIZATION
INVOLVEMENT
• AMERICAN GAS ASSOCIATION
- BEST PRACTICES
• COMMON GROUND ALLIANCE
- BEST PRACTICES
• DISTRIBUTION CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION
– FINDING CHAMPIONS
– SUPPORTING CHAMPIONS VIA INFORMATION SHARING
•
NATIONAL UNDERGROUND CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION
•
NORTH AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TRENCHLESS TECHNOLOGY
– POSITION PAPER
–
BEST PRACTICES
“NPL Quality – The Pipeline To Success”
NUCA Position Paper – Locating and Marking Service Laterals
The National Utility Contractors Association (NUCA) represents underground utility contractors,
manufacturers and suppliers who provide the workforce and materials to build and maintain the
nation’s network of water, sewer, gas, telecommunications and construction site development
industries. As an active member of the Common Ground Alliance—an organization that works to
promote best practices and shared responsibility by all stakeholders in damage prevention—
NUCA strongly encourages its members do their part to prevent damage to underground
facilities during construction activities.
There is an ongoing debate in many states over who is responsible for the underground service
laterals that run from the mains to buildings and residences that are in most cases on private
property. It is unrealistic to expect property owners to fulfill the responsibility of locating and
marking their service laterals. NUCA believes that effective damage prevention is ensured when
both parties fill their respective responsibilities. Excavators are responsible for notifying their
one-call centers prior to excavation and employing safe digging practices; underground facility
owners/operators are responsible for accurately locating and marking the facilities according to
their state one-call laws.
As a member of the CGA’s Best Practices Committee, NUCA is currently working on
developing a best practice that will address the issue, but the CGA is limiting the discussion to
locating sewer laterals. While NUCA is prepared to support a CGA best practice that to some
extent limits the facility operator’s responsibility to locate sewer laterals, our official position is
that facility owners/operators should be required to locate all service laterals. Locating and
marking underground facilities is a primary responsibility of the facility operator.
Therefore, NUCA supports all efforts to change state damage prevention laws so that they
require underground facility owners/operators to locate and mark all underground service
laterals. This would be consistent with their responsibility to locate and mark all of their
underground facilities prior to excavation activity.
WHAT IS NEEDED
• LOCAL CHAMPIONS TO CHANGE STATE LAWS
• GOVERNMENT REGULATORY AGENCIES TO
GET INVOLVED IN LEGISLATIVE CHANGES
AND ENFORCEMENT
• MORE LDC’S TO TAKE UP THE CAUSE
• FOR ALL TO UNDERSTAND THAT THIS IS NOT
JUST A CONTRACTOR PROBLEM.
IT IS
AN INDUSTRY SAFETY PROBLEM.
“NPL Quality – The Pipeline To Success”
WE WILL WIN!
“NPL Quality – The Pipeline To Success”
QUESTIONS?
QUESTIONS?