APWA Reporter: Collect, Code, Map

Somewhere under your streets, pipes are aging quietly and they're not going to send a courtesy text before they blow.

The frustrating part isn't that emergencies happen. It's that so many of them are avoidable. When utilities don't have consistent, reliable condition data, prioritization becomes a guessing game and the loudest, most visible failure tends to win. Budgets get eaten up by urgency, planned work keeps getting bumped, and the backlog just grows. Sound familiar?

Our CEO Andrew Stauffer wrote about how utilities can break that cycle before it breaks the bank. The approach comes down to three steps, collect, code, map, and it's less about a single technology purchase and more about building a smarter, more repeatable way of working. Athens, Alabama is the proof of concept: a fast-growing city that turned fragmented records and reactive habits into a proactive program that saved hundreds of thousands of dollars and gave their team (and their leadership) a whole lot more confidence in the plan.

It's a good read whether you're deep in the weeds on sewer ops or just trying to make the case for doing things differently.

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