Case Study: Des Moines Water Works reduces unknown service lines by 75% with BlueConduit predictive modeling

Des Moines Water Works reduces unknown service lines by 75% with BlueConduit

Des Moines Water Works (DMWW), a publicly owned utility serving the capital of Iowa, faced a significant challenge in compiling a lead service line inventory. With nearly 97,000 service lines classified as unknown and no existing data on materials, the utility was under pressure to meet federal compliance deadlines. DMWW lacked the staff and resources to physically inspect every line and needed a fast, accurate way to classify its inventory. They enlisted BlueConduit to utilize its LSL Predictions solution.

BlueConduit used predictive modeling, enriched with additional data features, to analyze the utility's inventory. After conducting just 300 field inspections to train the model, BlueConduit provided thresholds that allowed DMWW to classify over 70,000 service lines. This reduced their unknown inventory by nearly 75% within six months, providing the data-driven foundation needed to plan efficient and effective replacements.

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