In addition to this problem the unknown age and condition of many lines complicates the task of scheduling maintenance and replacement and makes the forecasting of life span virtually impossible. These two problems are compounded in planning service to new facilities. A complete survey should be conducted by a qualified engineering firm to identify all underground infrastructure by service, location, depth, size, age and condition. Before the format for documenting this information is selected it should be determined whether the College or a retained consulting firm will maintain this survey in the future. Procedures should then be established to ensure that the survey documentation is kept current with all new or newly discovered work.
Action Item A.5.1 – Prepare a program of requirements and commission a survey of existing and presently planned underground, on-grade and overhead infrastructure. Develop a means of maintaining the currency of this survey and assign necessary responsibility and resources. Educate the community as to its existence and the importance of consulting it before doing work that could interfere with infrastructure.
Pattern Language: Infrastructure Survey (IVPL4)
B – The Working Landscape • B.1 - A Sustainable, Comprehensive Policy on Yield Problem: Monetary Yield Imperatives Constrain Land Use The practice of assigning production quotas in dollar terms is a de facto statement to land managers that the primary measure of yield for the resources they manage is monetary. This conflicts with the proposition that the principal purpose of the College lands should be to support education in a broad context. While productivity is both a guiding principle and a responsibility of stewardship we must recognize that there may be other benchmarks by which it can be measured than by the bottom line alone. This is not to deny that the economics of a farming operation, for instance, are an important part of the educational experience at the College; rather it is to suggest that the experience can be enhanced by broadening the definition of yield and removing the constraining pressure of budgetary commitments to be extracted from the land. There are two aspects of this topic: how to ease the pressure of monetary quotas and redefine yield, and how to manage the opportunity that is thus created to best effect. These are challenging questions that beg study and
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