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Implementing Fully Automated Garbage and Recycling Collection

Do's and Don'ts of Implementing Fully Automated Garbage & Recycling Collection

Commerce City, Colorado has rolled out new residential trash and recycling collection services, switching to a fully automated system which reduces environmental impacts, improves neighborhood appearances and continues to provide quality pick-up service as the city grows.

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Change – Challenges When Implementing New Ideas for Winter Maintenance

Development of an effective winter operations plan can be a good start before proposing operational changes. Not only can it help guide many of your decisions, but since the document will ideally be based upon the expectations of your elected body and the public, it should help support any goals you are striving to achieve.

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The Automation of Snow Operations Paperwork with Web-Based Tools

The Towns of Wakefield and Needham, MA automated the processing of snow plow contractor tracking, invoicing and reporting with web-based tools with tremendous success. This session will review and summarize three full-seasons of real New England snow operations data and how web-based tools can impact documentation and data processing. 

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Doing it Right – A Systems Approach to Park Maintenance and Asset Management

Hear about how two California agencies have continuously improved by using a maintenance management system approach with a best practices and innovative technology to manage their assets.

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Abandoned Utilities: Out of Sight, Out of Mind?

Abandoned utilities take up a great deal of the limited supply of the right-of-way. At a time when agencies are trying to fit more utilities in less space, can we afford to have that space used by unnecessary installations? Learn how other agencies are handling abandoned utilities and how they are keeping track of what’s hidden underfoot.
 

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Can a City Effectively and Successfully Incorporate a Work Order Management System and GIS into an A

The City of Bloomington Utilities Division utilizes cutting-edge technology to manage water and sewer infrastructure. Their system includes enhancements to CMMS utilization and functionality, a state-of-the-art GIS system, and adoption of asset management best practices.

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The Godzilla, “El Nino” and Debris Management – Cleaning Up the Aftermath!

Damages caused by debris flows average 47% of the total costs of response and recovery efforts. A debris flow is a mass of loose mud, sand, soil, rock, water, and air that travels down a slope. Join us for a discussion on how new technologies are revolutionizing debris management through mobile applications, virtual monitoring, and real-time weather telemetry.

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Culvert Inspection and Repair — We Could Have Fixed it Cheaper, Sooner!

This three-part presentation describes culvert failure modes, improved culvert inspection technology, and the cost of repairs. The Minnesota Department of Transportation uses state-of-the-art technology and best practices for its culvert inspection system. They also use a mobile app to capture repair cost data for several types of culvert maintenance.

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Workshop Wednesday: Capital Improvement Planning Processes – Executing Processes for Successful Comm

For those tasked with developing a successful capital improvement program, this is a must attend presentation. We’ll review the required elements for a successful CIP; organizing stakeholders and getting support from the city council and public; preparing financial forecasts and project estimates; inventorying assets and identifying community needs, criteria for ranking projects, drafting CIP documents and living documents; project implementation steps and other considerations.

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The Complete Solution to Water Resources Management – Moorpark Desalter Project

The Moorpark Desalter Project will extract the high salinity groundwater from the shallow aquifer at a newly constructed well field and then treat the water at a state-of-the-art desalination plant using membrane filtration technology for the removal of salts including chloride, total dissolved solids, boron, and sulfate.

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