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• Failure impact evaluation and risk management <br />• Condition assessment <br />• Rehabilitation and replacement planning <br />• Capacity assessment and assurance <br />• Maintenance analysis and planning <br />• Financial management <br />• And continuous improvement48 <br />USEPA goes on to tie these concepts to another recent development in sewer system <br />management called Capacity, Management, Operation, and Maintenance (CMOM). CMOM was <br />developed by the USEPA in conjunction with municipal and other industry representatives. In <br />brief, CMOM is an information -based approach to setting operational and maintenance priorities. <br />It includes a comprehensive questionnaire for the utility managers and operators. It is lengthy, <br />about 66 pages, and would be time consuming and daunting to complete. Yet it is valuable in that <br />it forces managers to answer specific questions about the sewer system that are important, yet <br />probably not well known to the typical system manager or operations supervisor. Completion of <br />the CMOM checklist is an important and valuable part of asset management for a sewer system. It <br />would be valuable also, to prepare a similar companion checklist for the water system. <br />The foregoing has dealt with asset management as it relates to operations, maintenance <br />and capital improvements. There is also a financial management aspect to asset management <br />which will be dealt with in Section 9. <br />6.1.1 ArcGIS <br />The city uses ArcGIS'" software as a GIS platform. Several GIS maps are maintained with <br />sewer and water system information including some of the maps in this report. During the course <br />of this project, I requested and received additional GIS maps including the age of sewer and water <br />main maps and locations of sewer back -ups that were key to this project. <br />46 USEPA, Fact Sheet, Asset Management for Sewer Collection systems, April, 2002 <br />Page 60 <br />