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Staff sees sewer 'digital twin' (LUCID) to guide where infrastructure upgrades and developer costs will be required
Summary
Withers Ravenel demonstrated LUCID — a sewer-capacity digital twin — at the Belmont workshop, showing parcel-level downstream sewer constraints, an estimated 1,400 acres of redevelopable land, and a toolset staff can use to test development scenarios, prorate downstream costs and evaluate inflow-and-infiltration reduction strategies.
At the Sept. 15 Belmont City Council workshop, Eddie Staley of Withers Ravenel demonstrated LUCID, a land-use–based infrastructure decision model that links the city’s land-use scenarios to hydraulic sewer modeling and highlights areas where sewer capacity constraints or downstream upgrades would be required to support new development.
Staley described LUCID as an interactive “digital twin” accessible to city staff that layers GIS parcel information, lift-station data and hydraulic-model outputs. He said the team’s baseline analysis found about 1,400 acres of uncommitted or redevelopable land in the planning area and that modeling used…
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