Operational Flexibility?A Precious Commodity
This discussion is about Operational Flexibility, as it applies to the generating resources of a large electricity system. The author discusses the situation at Ontario Hydro, operationally...
Marketing Power in the Pacific Northwest
The marketing of power in the Pacific Northwest is a process intimately tied to the management of the Columbia River system. This paper describes the characteristics of the river and transmission...
Lead: Taking it from the Tap
Medical evidence is lowering the definition of a safe concentration of lead. In turn, there has been an effort to reduce lead in drinking water. Solutions are complicated, as many lead...
Iowa's Experience with Various Types of Pipe in Natural Gas Service
The Utilities Division, Iowa Department of Commerce, is responsible for the rate, service, and safety regulation of utility companies in the State of Iowa. This paper will summarize a...
Water Main Condition Monitoring A Case Study
Water main breaks, routine occurrences for water utilities, reflect the structural failure of the main. The trend in break patterns is increasing for many utilities in the U. S. Several...
Analysis of New York City's Water Main Replacement Policy
Water distribution main breakage is a perplexing problem for water utilities. To avoid excessive breakage, certain mains should be replaced. However, determining the appropriate mains...
Water Main Cleaning and Lining?A Utility Perspective
The Chester Water Authority is a regional water supply system located in Southeastern Pennsylvania serving a population of over 140,000 people in two countries and a large industrial complex...
Computer Control for Salt Lake City Water System
In 1978 the Department of Public Utilities in Salt Lake City began to develop a computer system to aid in the operation of the water system. The Department of Public Utilities computer...
RAM Residents
RAM resident programs can eliminate the tedious tasks that normally require leaving the computer. These programs include calendars, phone dialers, calculators and notepads, and they lie...
Infrastructure and Marketing in Water Resources
Marketing and infrastructure are two areas of growing interest and importance in engineering. Nearly every engineering discipline now uses some form of marketing to promote its products...
Disposal and Utilization of Electric Utility Wastes
The papers presented in this book summarize the recent developments in coal ash utilization technology, and the current issues and regulations associated with the environmental effects...
Marginal Cost Pricing: Is Water Different?
The objectives of public utility pricing are generally acknowledged to include a desire for efficient allocation of community resources, equity in allocating cost shares, stable revenues...
Alternatives to the Precommensuration of Costs, Benefits, Risks, and Time
The thesis advanced in this paper is that benefit-cost analysis, the present-value-of-cost (and benefit) approach, and the expected value of damage as a measure of risk all share a faulty...
Probabilistic Approach to Maintenance Scheduling
Maintenance has the purpose of prolonging the working life of equipment and of sustaining expected levels of performance and reliability. If equipment deterioration is construed as a probabilistic...
Stormwater Management by Utility Approach
Traditional methods of financing municipal stormwater operations and improvements through general city fund revenues has passed. A utility approach providing a continuous, uniform flow...
GIS Goes Public
The term Geographic Information Systems (GIS) covers a wide range of computerized mapping and database activities that vary between governments and even between agencies of the same governmental...
Retrofitting for a New Life in Power
Despite continued growth in energy demands, electric utilities in the U.S. aren't building many new powerplants these days, due to the economic and regulatory roadblocks they...
Air Power Boosts Utility Energy Supplies
Based in part on successful findings of tests, in which compressed air was stored in underground aquifers, Central Illinois Public Service engineers are investigating a type of pumped...
Seismic Cutoff
The John Hart Dam, which is a 40-year old dam in British Vancouver, Canada, has been rehabilitated to meet current seismic codes. BC Hydro, the utility that owns the dam, conducted a study...
Waves in the Water Works
The 1986 amendments to the 1974 Safe Drinking Water Act are far reaching laws that may affect many drinking water utilities across the nation in the next decade. Congress passed legislation...
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