CSA S250 Standard MAPPING OF UNDERGROUND UTILITY INFRASTRUCTURE

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CSA S250 StandardMAPPING OF UNDERGROUND UTILITY
INFRASTRUCTURE

• Bob Gaspirc, OLS, CLS, OAEM
• Chair, CSA S250 Technical Committee
• Manager, Mapping Services. City of Toronto
• URISA - Ontario Chapter "Be Spatial'09" AGM
  Program and EXPO
• May 5, 2009

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Critical Infrastructure Dependencies
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Space in the ROW is limited
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Traffic Congestion is increasing
If unchecked By 2031 we will need 19 additional
lanes of expressway capacity to move suburban
commuters to jobs in the City and City residents
to jobs in the 905 region which cannot be
effectively served by public transit.
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Infrastructure Challenges

• Definitions, terms, features, symbology
• Cost management issues, business disruptions to
  revenue stream, disruption to other utilities,
  damage prevention, coordination, circulation
• Reduced right of way size, congestion, no cut
  moratoriums, advancements of trench technology,

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Local Government Responsibilities

• Owner/user of the public roads under its
  jurisdiction
• Public roads are held in trust for the long-term
  benefit of the public, the taxpayers other
  users of the public roads
• Policies are needed that will withstand the test
  of time, to administer the surface subsurface
  space
• To support municipal activities, there is a need
  to know what is in the right of way where is it
  located?

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Question?

• How will you demonstrate that your records are
  evidence that an event, activity, or task
  occurred or did not occur?

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Utility Records - Evidence of an event, activity,
task

• As-built drawings, plans, sketches
• Circulation drawings, mark ups
• Design drawing
• Permit drawings, sketches
• Approved design drawing used for purposes of
  construction
• Field notes, locator notes, inspector notes,
• Digital representations of above

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Key Goals improve decision making during utility
life cycle

• You must
• Be ready to produce utility record as evidence
  that an event, set of activities, or task
  occurred and was completed
• Have record containing relevant, factual, and
  timely data
• Be able to access and retrieve utility record
• Be able to share, manipulate, analyze, distribute
  data
• Make and act on decisions using reliable and
  dependable utility map records

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Good records - better decision making
CSA s250 provides

• Terminology characteristics of a record
• Authenticity what it purports to be
• Reliability trusted as full and accurate
  representation of the fact
• Integrity complete and unaltered
• Usability can be located, retrieved, presented,
  and interpreted
• Codification of best practises to qualify the
  level of reliability of mapping records
  information that is collected and used to depict
  the location and attributes of utility
  infrastructure
• Quality levels envisioned to be as per ASCE
  38-02, Standard Guideline for the Collection and
  Depiction of Existing Subsurface Utility Data

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CSA s250 Mapping Standard also

• Provides a technically neutral language
• Creates a consistent and repeatable approach to
  mapping and recording of facility information
• as per CSA S250
• Promotes communication among utility
  infrastructure stakeholders and reduces
  infrastructure life-cycle challenges

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Benefits to all

• Improved safety of company and contractor
  employees and the general public by decreasing
  utility hits/strikes
• Improved reliability and accuracy in the location
  of underground utility infrastructure mapping
  records and supporting data
• Lower cost in utility design life cycle by
  sharing accurate and complete utility records in
  a more timely fashion amongst all users (owners,
  municipalities, designers, contractors, locators,
  )

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CSA s250 Mapping of underground infrastructure

• Applying the standard to an organizations
  business will not eliminate the possibility of
  litigation, but it will make the production of
  electronic records easier and their acceptance in
  a legal proceeding more certain.
• This standard is not intended to replace, reduce,
  or eliminate the Call before you dig
  requirements for field locates of buried
  utilities

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CSA s250 is Part of the decision framework
Acts, regulations, by-laws, codes Results of
court actions/decisions, other legal proceeding
Business policies, best practice, procedures, and
operational requirements

• STANDARDS
• ISO 15489 - records management
• CAN/CGSB-72.34, Electronic records as documentary
  evidence
• standards endorsed for the Canadian Geospatial
  Data Infrastructure (CGDI) (DRM, metadata, web
  services etc)
• CSA s250 Mapping of Underground Utility
  Infrastructure

Technology neutral language Improves, enhances
records management during design, construction,
operation, retirement phase of plant
Enables Framework for collection, access
exchange, and distribution
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Background

• RPWCO Task Force formed in June 2005 in order to
  improve the efficiency and safety of road and
  utility construction by developing standards for
  the following
• as-built records of buried utilities
• electronic formats of as-built records and
• planned construction activity in the road
  allowance.

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What was found

• No current mapping standard that addresses
  accuracy, process, and identification of
  underground plant
• Historically, high variability in the
  reliability, consistency accuracy of mapping
  underground utilities
• The (Ontario and BC) Common Ground Alliance
  movement have introduced Mapping Best Practices
  for Damage Prevention
• Recent technological advancements allows for
• Improved records capture (GPS, LIDAR, imagery)
• Better records storage (GIS, CADD systems)
• Enhanced access and sharing mechanisms
• Growing appetite to share utility mapping records
• Utility owners/operators already have internal
  standards

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Build Up to Development of Standard

• 2005 to 2006 Q3 ORCGA Mapping Best Practices
  finalized and committee dissolved
• 2006 Q1 to Q3 RPWCO gathered support to develop
  a mapping standard
• 2006 Q3 RPWCO approached CSA to conduct a study
  on the viability of developing a new mapping
  standard
• 2006 Q4 to 2007 Q2 Feasibility Task Force
• 2007 Q2 Call for participation nationwide to
  become member of committee to develop new CSA
  standard
• 2007 Q3 New CSA S250 Technical Committee
  established and kick off

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Why a CSA based standard?

• Part of the National Standards System accredited
  by the Standards Council of Canada

• Provides management framework for administering
  technical committee
• Acts a facilitator provides neutral third party
  forum, process, and structure for developing a
  consensus standard

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TC CSA s250
Mandate The Committee shall be responsible for
developing and maintaining standards related to
mapping and recording of existing in-service
underground utility infrastructure and related
appurtenances below, at, or near grade and those
that are either abandoned or that are reserved
for future use.
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Committee Matrix

• Interest categories
• Min Max
• UI User Interest 4 7
• GI General Interest 4 7
• CA Carriers 4 7
• RA Regulatory Authority 4 7

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CSA s250 promotes the creation, use, and
advancement of mapping records, during utility
life cycle
Planning
Coordination
Inventory
Drawing Circulation
Cut Repair
CSA s250
Design
Construction
Permit
Utility Stakeout
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Committee Meetings Held Thus Far

• October 2007 (Toronto) - Kick-off and member
  training session
• December 2007 (Mississauga) Lifecycle of plant
• February 2008 (Mississauga) Content development
• April 2008 (Mississauga) Content development
• June 2008 (Vancouver) Content development
• September 2008 (Mississauga) Rough outline
  review
• November 2008 (Mississauga) 1st reading of
  draft
• January 2009 (Calgary) 2nd reading of draft

Teleconferences as required
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Examples of recent committee discussions

• Feature description and symbology
• Common symbology and attributes to be used to
  graphically represent utility infrastructure and
  its associated attributes
• Municipal utility coordination
• How will data get shared?
• What data needs to be shared?
• How do changes get communicated?

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Map record accuracy
Spatial Accuracy Level Description Geodetic Reference
1 Accurate to within /- 10cm in the xyz projection coordinate system and referenced to an accepted geodetic datum within a 95 confidence level absolute
2 Accurate to within /- 30cm in the xyz projection coordinate system and referenced to an accepted geodetic datum within a 95 confidence level Absolute
3 Accurate to within /- 30cm in the xyz projection coordinate system and referenced to an acceptable topographic or cadastral feature within a 95 confidence level Relative
4 Accurate to within /- 100cm in the xyz projection coordinate system and referenced to an accepted geodetic datum within a 95 confidence level Relative
0 No information available related to spatial accuracy N/A
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TC - Challenges Observations

• Need to remind ourselves of the benefits of
  having a standard
• Need to maintain interest in the standard by
  committee members and all stakeholders
• Need to assess how the standard will be embraced
  and then sustained
• Definitions relative, absolute, content,
  accuracy, depth of cover, elevation

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Expected Outcomes

• Improved reliability and accuracy in the location
  of underground utility infrastructure mapping
  records supporting data
• Improved safety of company contractor employees
  and the general public by decreasing utility
  hits/strikes
• Lower cost in the utility design life cycle by
  sharing accurate complete utility records in a
  timely fashion amongst all users (municipalities,
  carriers, contractors, designers, consultants,
  locators)

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What does it mean to megt

• Once CSA S250 is published, stakeholders may
• Ignore it
• Use standard to support their records management
  frameworks
• Voluntarily modify internal practices, processes,
  systems to meet or exceed standard
• formally mandate implementation of all or part of
  CSA standard in regulatory/legislated framework

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Next Steps - Timeline for Publication

• Complete rough outline June 2009
• Enquiry (public review) stage Fall 2009
• Approval by CSA Technical Committee Winter 2009
  / 2010
• Ready for publication Summer 2010

CSA S250 Mapping of underground utility
infrastructure
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Questions?
Thank-you!