Master Plan Manager guides wastewater treatment plant planners and managers through the development of master plan scenarios and provides critical information for making informed decisions in managing water, wastewater, and water resources.

The Master Plan Manager allows users to distill the master planning process into a "living" model that can be updated throughout the master planning life cycle.


•  Reduces the four- to six-week per scenario development process to just minutes.

•  Provides a nexus between user costs and benefits for stakeholder analysis.

•  Allows user to link collection system models for seamless interaction of your system's flow projections for alternative analysis.

•  Integrates with the Water / Wastewater Asset Manager.

•  Allows for examination of GASB 34 "modified" and straight-line depreciation approaches on planning scenarios.

•  Contains graphical user interfaces (GUI) that are easy to use and understand.

•  Incorporates demographic, financial, engineering, and stakeholder models into one comprehensive solution.

•  Provides a step-by-step process for developing master plan scenarios.

•  Provides stakeholder feedback on each master plan scenario., financial, and effluent quality outputs.

•  Provides options for growth rates, service area expansion, water conservation, source control, biosolids recycling and disposal, water reuse, and watershed (nonstructural) management options.

•  Produces facilities layouts, project schedules, and effluent quality projections.

•  Calculates future rates and fees, reserve balances, capital costs, revenues, and bond size and timing.

•  Allows users to consider various “treatment train” configurations for improving existing facilities and for adding advanced treatment.

Application

The user selects a set of master planning options from the Strategy Table. Master Plan Manager incorporates these selections into a master plan scenario and within minutes displays Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) results – including financial, environmental, stakeholder, and other critical planning information.

The Strategy Table serves as the central planning area. From the Strategy Table, the user can select various scenario options. The considerations include:

•  Population and industrial growth rates.

•  Treatment process selections.

•  Biosolids management options.

•  Water reuse alternatives.

•  Nonstructural alternatives such as watershed "offsets.”

The Master Plan Manager is a modular program. The individual modules can be deployed separately or as an integrated program.

The architecture of the Master Plan Manager also allows for the integration of collection system models, and the Water/Wastewater Asset Manager, a separate program developed by Carollo Engineers. When used in conjunction with the Water/Wastewater Asset Manager, users can investigate the effects of the GASB 34 "modified" and straight-line depreciation approaches for asset management on O&M as well as capital expenditures. For more information on the Water/Wastewater Asset Manager, please see the Water/Wastewater Asset Manager informational flyer or contact Carollo Engineers.