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National Database Of Water Pipe Infrastructure In Works.(NEWSLINE: The Latest Industry Developments)
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Underground Construction
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May 1, 2008
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A group of VirginiaTech faculty and researchers are working to create the prototype of a national internet-based geospatial database of underground water pipes with funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the National Science Foundation.
The project is a collaboration between Sunil Sinha, project leader and associate professor in the Via Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), Randy Dymond, associate professor in the CEE department and co-director of Virginia Tech's Center for Geospatial Information Technology (CGIT),Thomas Dickerson, CGIT research associate, and Rahul Vemulapally, CEE graduate student.
"Underground water pipes are ...