Use of Strategic Asset Management Principles to Provide Long-Term Risk Management and Environmental Protection for the City of San Diego's Stormwater Program

The City of San Diego Stormwater Department (SWD) has developed a comprehensive, web-based Watershed Asset Management Plan (WAMP) to align its future asset investment with the goal of providing risk management, environmental protection, and triple-bottom-line benefits to the citizens of San Diego. To achieve this, the WAMP includes not just physical assets such as storm drain pipes, drainage channels, and pump stations, but also programmatic assets (activities) such as Department leadership, regulatory monitoring and reporting, street sweeping, and asset operations & maintenance. The WAMP calculates and compares the probability of failure (PoF) and consequence of failure (CoF) of both physical and programmatic assets, which allows risk management discussions and decisions to be made across department silos, such that SWD’s most pressing needs are addressed early in the timeline.