fastrack2renewal™ from Wachs Water Services is a cost-effective and results-driven approach for helping water utilities, municipalities, and pipeline operators meet the growing challenge of managing, maintaining, and renewing their aging water infrastructure.

Over the past decade, Wachs Water Services has become the North American leader in establishing water distribution system sustainability by helping over 200 small and large utilities to regain control of their aging water distribution systems. Delivering accurate and reliable information about their water distribution system, the fastrack2renewal™ approach helps utilities focus on strategic maintenance, rehabilitation, and replacement of infrastructure assets offering the highest leverage on investment.

Delivering immediate system efficiencies with each step, fastrack2renewal™ from Wachs Water Services offers budget-strapped utilities unmatched "bang-for-the-buck" value. Enhanced speed, accuracy, and system control helps manage and revitalize aging water infrastructure, and ensures every investment dollar is applied to the right assets, at the right places, and at the right times.

	Baltimore, Maryland In the greater Baltimore region, Wachs Water Services has been working closely with the City and County in a multi-year, phased approach to help regain and maintain operational control of one of the oldest water distribution systems in the United States. Tremendous progress has been made by the utilities to date and they have set industry benchmarks for control point operability and system sustainability.
	Program highlights include: Reduced the probability of asset failure Over 123,000 valves and hydrants serviced and GPS mapped Improved valve operability to 94% system wide (industry benchmark) Over 1,000 miles of pipeline inspected with over 14 MGD of water loss recovered
Reduced consequence of failure Over 22,000 as-built drawings indexed and integrated with GIS system Resolved thousands of hydraulically significant mapping errors Implemented automated geo-referencing system to reduce mapping lag Completed water GIS layer with over 45,000 assets and 2,000 miles of mains Integrated GIS and work order management using ESRI web mapping engine

Atlanta, Gerogia The City of Atlanta turned to Wachs Water Services when they required accurate and precise information about their aging water distribution system assets. Working in step with the utility, Wachs Water Services experts were able to complete a system-wide asset location, operability and mapping program in just 3 years. Each step of the program generated valuable information which immediately helped to improve system control and efficiency. To date, operability of key assets has been improved to 90%.

Houston, Texas To help increase the overall efficiency of their water distribution network, Wachs Water Services was proactively engaged to conduct an asset operability review, system-wide mapping and water flow analysis of large diameter valves. Working closely with several departments within the utility, the program determined that 20% of large diameter valves needed to be adjusted to have the water network operate as designed. After optimizing valve positions, the utility achieved their desired goals of a reduction in energy costs, reduction in chemical costs and a reduction in maintenance costs.

Culver City, California In Culver City, Wachs Water Services performed a system wide valve analysis and information renewal program. With valve operability increased to 85% the Utility was able to better prepare for and limit the service interruption of planned main replacements. In one instance, only half a mile of main required a temporary shutdown using 10 valves and 2 hydrants with no major service interruption. Prior to having renewed asset information and control points, the same planned shutdown would have affected over 2 miles of main using 13 valves, 13 hydrants and impacted 3 major services lines.