PR740-243902-W01 Common River Assessment and Information Sharing Platform

May 31, 2025

Flood related channel bed erosion, bank migration, and channel avulsions can represent a significant threat to pipeline integrity. Because there is well over 100,000 miles of liquid petroleum pipelines across the United States, the number of pipeline water crossings at risk from potential flood related forces is equally large. However, the vast majority of these pipeline water crossings are located on small rivers and streams that do not represent a significant threat to pipeline integrity. Conversely, understanding which rivers have the potential to impact pipeline integrity is critical for pipeline companies to continue to safely and reliably operate and to efficiently mitigate and manage flood related risks. The project described here is intended to support PRCI member companies by integrating and normalizing historic and future riverine related assessments conducted by pipeline operating companies into a central system allowing for visualization and data management of river risk properties and characterization to assist pipeline operating companies to better understand and evaluate riverine related risks to pipeline networks and scheduling of future inspections and setting post-flood inspection thresholds.

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