Water infrastructures such as WWTPs have significant roles in urban systems’ functioning. Their performance is directly related to how resilient they are to face and mitigate hazard/flood impacts. The governmental agencies such as NYC-DEP, as the main decision-makers in allocating resources to various water infrastructure for improved resiliency, need to see how these infrastructures manage their assets in order to prioritize the allocation of limited resources. Therefore, any allocation should be in the context of both physical and financial/asset management performances. One of the many methods for quantifying resiliency is in the context of four criteria known as 4Rs (Robustness, Rapidity, Resourcefulness, and Redundancy). The scope of this study is to consider asset management as the main attribute of resourcefulness in flood resiliency of water infrastructures. The proposed framework is tested on 14 wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) in the coastal city of New York. The resilience improvement of these plants are estimated and compared for different budgets. The results show that by including the asset management plans in the resiliency framework, compared to previous studies, the resource allocation program for each WWTPs could be done more effectively.

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Water infrastructures such as WWTPs have significant roles in urban systems’ functioning. Their performance is directly related to how resilient they are to face and mitigate hazard/flood impacts. The governmental agencies such as NYC-DEP, as the main decision-makers in allocating resources to various water infrastructure for improved resiliency, need to see how these infrastructures manage their assets in order to prioritize the allocation of limited resources. Therefore, any allocation should be in the context of both physical and financial/asset management performances. One of the many methods for quantifying resiliency is in the context of four criteria known as 4Rs (Robustness, Rapidity, Resourcefulness, and Redundancy). The scope of this study is to consider asset management as the main attribute of resourcefulness in flood resiliency of water infrastructures. The proposed framework is tested on 14 wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) in the coastal city of New York. The resilience improvement of these plants are estimated and compared for different budgets. The results show that by including the asset management plans in the resiliency framework, compared to previous studies, the resource allocation program for each WWTPs could be done more effectively.

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Asset Management Based Flood Resiliency of Water Infrastructures

Created in 1999, the Environmental & Water Resources Institute (EWRI) is the recognized leader within ASCE for the integration of technical expertise and public policy in the planning, design, construction, and operation of environmentally sound and sustainable infrastructure impacting air, land and water resources.

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Conference DOI: https://doi.org/10.26226/m.6329c39b68fb0e00131f77d2