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Consultant briefs Ticonderoga board on county-funded water and sewer asset-management tool
Summary
A consultant contracted under a county grant demonstrated an Excel-based asset-management system for the town's water and wastewater vertical assets, showing five-year failure probabilities, a 10–20 year capital renewal projection and recommended next steps for budgeting and annual updates.
A consultant identified in the transcript as Dyan, from the firm described there as "Right Pierce," presented an asset-management briefing to the Ticonderoga Town Board on Dec. 16, outlining how the county-funded program catalogs vertical water and wastewater assets and produces planning outputs to guide budgeting.
Dyan told the board the program focuses on vertical assets (treatment plants, booster stations, wells and storage tanks) and excludes horizontal elements such as hydrants and valves. The tool is Microsoft Excel–based, contains an asset inventory with condition observations and photographs, and ranks assets by likelihood of failure and consequence of failure to produce a prioritized risk list.
The consultant said engineers with relevant specialties reviewed critical items to develop realistic replacement-cost and repair estimates. He highlighted several near-term items with elevated risk or end-of-design-life dates in 2025, including control panels and analyzers at the Lake George filtration facility and hypochlorite pumps at the Street Road facility. An output cited in the briefing showed a capital-renewal equipment cost “lens” for 2025 roughly in the low hundreds of thousands of dollars (the presentation listed a conceptual equipment-only figure near $400,000 for that year).
Dyan emphasized the program's intended use as a planning tool rather than a directive: the board can revise cost factors (contingency, labor, profit margins) and should follow up with preliminary engineering or manufacturer quotes before budgeting. He said the county funded development of 17 local inventories, the digital Excel tool will be delivered in January and two hard copies of the report will be provided to the town.
Supervisor Right and the town's wastewater supervisor, Derek (identified in the transcript as participating in the project), asked procedural questions about updating the tool and annual maintenance. The consultant recommended revisiting the asset inventory and risk priorities annually and integrating inspection notes or work-order records before each budget season.
The board did not take formal action during the presentation; the consultant said no statutory requirement compels action, but recommended using the outputs to begin grant and rate planning early because substantial capital projects typically take multiple years to fund and execute.
