PROJECT: Ghostwritten article written in collaboration with Woolpert and the City of Topeka published in CENews.com, January 2011

EXCERPT:
“Enterprise asset management system provides holistic solution for city public works”

When the Shunganunga Creek in Kansas overtopped its banks on May 7, 2007 – a 100-year flood event that forced 500 people to evacuate their homes – the City of Topeka Department of Public Works handled much of the cleanup, according to Mike Teply, then department director.

On that day the Shunganunga, which runs from the southwest part of Topeka to the Kansas River northeast of the city, flooded businesses as well as residences. And although the Public Works Department incurred more than $90,000 in cleanup expenses, the Federal Emergency Management Agency reimbursed the city just 40 percent of this amount, or $36,341, said Teply, now the department’s director of engineering and development.

“Back then we hadn’t implemented our enterprise asset management system in our Street Maintenance Section, so we were unable to provide the details FEMA required,” he said. “So we were reimbursed primarily for expenses incurred only by the wastewater and stormwater utilities.”

Nearly three years later, however – after a snowstorm pounded Topeka in late December 2009 and early January 2010 – things in Public Works were much different.

Read the rest of this project case study, a Web exclusive in January 2011 at www.cenews.com.

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