The Town of Cary’s Buried Infrastructure Asset Management Plan
Cary’s Town Hall.
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Joshua Dill: Please tell us about your background and how you came to be in your current position.
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Dave Hallgren: I started my engineering career at a smaller municipality where I worked on a variety of capital projects, including water, sewer, sidewalk, and greenway. About 10 years ago, I moved to North Carolina and started working for the Town of Cary, where I continued to manage utility capital improvement projects. As the town started take a more proactive approach to asset management, there was an opportunity to make a career transition, and today I am the town’s asset manager. Joshua Dill: Please tell us about the Town of Cary’s water and wastewater services. Dave Hallgren: We serve the citizens of Cary as well as customers at Raleigh-Durham International Airport, the Wake County portion of the Research Triangle Park, and the neighboring town of Morrisville. Our collection
PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE TOWN OF CARY.
n 2018, the Town of Cary, North Carolina, developed a buried infrastructure asset management plan. The town, which is near Raleigh in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina, had relatively new water and wastewater infrastructure and had a variety of ongoing asset management practices, but they were not integrated, transparent, and fully documented. Through a year-long process of general and area-specific meetings, the town developed a plan that included immediate, short-term tasks to be completed and also established regular asset management procedures. In this interview, Dave Hallgren, Cary’s asset manager, speaks with Municipal Water Leader Managing Editor Joshua Dill about how the asset management plan was developed and the benefits it has brought to the municipality.
