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Pipeline Assessment Certification Program (PACP) Benefits of Version 7.0 Update Ted DeBoda, P.E. Executive Director NASSCO. The New PACP Version 7.0. Unprecedented Review Technical Updates Educational Benefits User Friendly Format New Asset Management Appendix. Unprecedented Review.
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Pipeline Assessment Certification Program (PACP)Benefits of Version 7.0 UpdateTed DeBoda, P.E.Executive DirectorNASSCO
The New PACP Version 7.0 • Unprecedented Review • Technical Updates • Educational Benefits • User Friendly Format • New Asset Management Appendix
Unprecedented Review More than 100 Collections Professionals Reviewed Entire Manual and Collectively Raised the Bar on PACP Industry Standards
Technical Update More User Friendly and Informative • Describes Supplemental Technologies • Includes Backgrounds to Technical Issues, i.e. Deterioration Mechanisms and Stages of Sewer Collapse
Technical Update More Robust and Informative Header Form No Data Loss from v 6.0.1 to v 7.0 10 Custom Fields • Used for Specific Needs • Allows More Information on Existing Database
Technical Update More Robust and Informative Header Form 9 Redefined Fields and New Options • New Material Options • Weather • Consequence of Failure (CoF)
Technical Update More Robust and Informative Header Form 5 New Fields • Reviewed By and Certificate Number • Coating • Vertical Datum • Lining Method • Inspection Technology Used
Technical Update Addition of Infiltration Codes’ Modifiers • Barrel • Lateral • Connection • Joint
Technical Update • If ANY Defect can be Seen in a Lateral, it is Coded as Defective • Tap Code Modifiers Prioritized and additional observations included in Remarks: • Defective • Intruding • Capped • Activity • Abandoned
Technical Update • Level 1 MACP Simplified - Mandatory Requirements were Reduced in 31 Fields! • 13 New Fields and 4 New Component Fields were Added
Technical Update New LACP Access Codes • Access Lateral Trap (ALT) • Access Roof Vent (ARV) • Access Backflow Preventer (ABP)
Technical Update Additional Condition Grades • Stormwater • Dam and Levee Pipes
Educational Benefit • Training Material Follows Manual Better • Clarifies Rules for Continuous Defects • Provides Example for Overlapping Continuous Defects for Improved and More Accurate Coding
Educational Benefit • Moved Buckling Code into Deformed Modifier • Clarifies Buckling Occurrence • Allows for Deformation Percent • New Codes for Surface Damage to Provide More Detailed Options • Surface Spalling of the Coating • Corrosion Tuberculation
Educational Benefit New Appendix to Help Field Personnel to Identify Pipe Materials
User Friendly Format • Manual More Easily Updated • The New Color Codes Chart for Header Codes Facilitates Populating the Fields • The Manhole Measurement Diagram Eliminates any Second Guessing about what Component is Being Measured
Asset Management New Appendix Describes Asset Management Using PACP to Define • Likelihood of Failure (LoF) • Consequence of Failure (CoF) • Risk
Status • Feb 2015 – Final Draft of Manual and Training Materials • May 2015 – U.S. Certification Training