The City of Fort Wayne’s sewer engineers needed an application that was intuitive and accessible, inexpensive, highly accurate, easily maintained, and would return a map and tabular results about the network of sewer lines maintained by the city. A script was built to take advantage of the logical network of pipes, including upstream and downstream structures. This allows the user to identify all affected pipes from a start structure using a recursive algorithm, and print a map and report of these pipes. Engineers can utilize the data to determine problem areas based on direction of flow, flow volumes, remaining capacity, and homes experiencing backups in their basements. The engineer can plan for a sewer re-route or replacement project, thereby eliminating these “pinch points.”



Read more about this project at www.igic.org/realworld/utftwayne.html