Water Utilities Fittings

NorthPark

What do you folks do for fittings that are bolted to one another? For example, a reducer bolted to a tee? I just added a fittings layer with the intent of eventually putting my system into a geometric network. So far I have just put the fittings on top of each other as coincident points. Is this even an issue I should be concerned about? With wet taps, I have placed a wet tap fittings at the intersection of the pipes and place the tapping valve offset from the fitting by the approximate distance from center to center of the fitting to the valve. So if I decide to split mains at valves in the future (likely), I will end up with 1-2' pipe segments.

Any advice is appreciated!

Eric

SSMIC3038

This is a tricky one to deal with, in similar circumstances we've put an arbitrary short piece of pipe between the 2, we also have a point feature named "FYI" and we put one of those there and detail what the issue is, we also put details in the pipe comments explaining why the segment is there. Not the best solution but putting points on top of points results in one covering the other and then people doing analysis inevitably don't see one of them.

Another option would be adding a relevant field to one of the assets and handle it textually as an attribute. problem there is that a lot of GIS users are 'visual' only users and don't look at attributes, they go by what they see on screen, which leads back to the solution above, people need to so set it visually.

May not be the best solution, but that's how we deal with it, never heard anything negative on it.