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AWWA ACE65318
- GVRD Employs Innovative Decision Support Tools and Practices for Sustainable Water Management
- Conference Proceeding by American Water Works Association, 06/01/2007
- Publisher: AWWA
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This powerpoint presentation begins by providing background information and system characteristics for the Greater Vancouver Regional District. Issues and opportunities for sustainable water management included: balancing water supply anddemand; meeting water qualitycommitments;reliability of aginginfrastructure;rising cost of construction,energy, and chemicals; Sustainable Region Initiative;O&M Strategic Business Plan;knowledge retention andsuccession planning; and, supervisory control and data acquisition(SCADA) Master Stationreplacement. Operations optimization included astructured program of changes inorganization, work process andtechnology to:continually meet customerservice levels; continually meet water qualitycommitments;minimize labor, energy,chemical and material costs; and,respond quickly and effectivelyto events and emergencyconditions as they occur. The vision for optimization included:centralizing water supplyoperations decision makingthrough daily systemplanning and scheduling; train and empower knowledgeable operators; use advanced technologiesto meet multiple operationalperformance criteriathroughout the system; and, use more automated control.