As a resident of Dublin you may have seen these large trucks with a barrel shaped body driving around town. Another valuable process is the gathering of visual pipeline inspections on video. A small camera travels through the pipeline and retrieves vital information that is retained on film. Each section of pipe is evaluated by this process, underground leaks are located and sealed and a record of sewer line conditions is kept over a period of years. Inevitably all of the various collection system tasks generate a considerable amount of necessary paperwork.
Circumstances require data to be gathered and preserved for use again and again.
Until recently, with the acquisition of computers as a viable tool, the paperwork bogged down the process and made critical delineations very difficult. All of the collection system data is now encompassed within a specialized software package and is immediately accessible.