This report is the final report for the desktop assessment of technologies that may be suitable for use in scour monitoring for pipelines water crossings. The results of this project are intended to be used to assist the Pipeline Operators in selecting and implementing technologies and approaches for scour monitoring that can be field evaluated for use in pipeline applications. This project was completed to identify scour monitoring technologies that have sufficient readiness for field validation and deployment to improve the understanding and management of hydrotechnical hazards and their...
This report is the final report for the desktop assessment of technologies that may be suitable for use in scour monitoring for pipelines water crossings. The results of this project are intended to be used to assist the Pipeline Operators in selecting and implementing technologies and approaches for scour monitoring that can be field evaluated for use in pipeline applications. This project was completed to identify scour monitoring technologies that have sufficient readiness for field validation and deployment to improve the understanding and management of hydrotechnical hazards and their potential effects on pipelines, with the overall goal of improved pipeline integrity management. To that end, this project has accomplished the following: 1) identify current scour monitoring technologies or approaches that are ready or near ready for field validation and deployment at pipeline river crossings; 2) identify gaps in current scour monitoring technologies available to the pipeline industry; 3) provide recommendations for technologies that may be ready for deployment in the near future or that could be repurposed from other industries to serve as scour monitoring technologies for pipelines; 4) set performance metrics to evaluate the performance of the potentially viable technologies; and 5) define the requirements for field testing and to develop a list of field-testing sites and requirements to conduct the field testing.