Cross Bores in the UPDM

Question

All -

We represent discovered cross bore locations as simple point features in our current gas distribution ArcMap/GN implementation.   I don't see a direct correspondence in the UPDM - but I may be missing something.

Any guidance/suggestions here would be much appreciated.

Thx,

Ed

EdwardBlair · Answer

Hi -

Thanks much for the feedback/suggestion.   We'll definitely look into this approach.

Much appreciated,

Ed

JSchroeder · Answer

Hi Ed,

That is a great question. I would recommend using the P_PipeCrossing feature class for this. The 'Pipe Utility' subtype would be the most common type of crossbores, and the Crossing Feature Type field already has values for Sewer and Storm Sewer.

If there are values that are missing for your use, you can expand/modify the existing values.

What we do not have is any attribution directly tied to a crossbore, although I think you could get creative and use the 'Depth of Crossing Feature' field and store this as 0 (zero) to indicate that the pipe is intersecting.

If this doesn't fit your needs, I would suggest adding a new field to this feature class called 'Crossbore', type=Short, Domain=Yes/No with a default of 'null' or 'No' to account for non-crossbore crossings.