Uniformat G3020

Sanitary forcemain

A sanitary forcemain has a useful life of about 80 years, the median of 9 published sources, which state 52–108.3 years.

Also listed as forcemain, force main

• Confidence C
• Version 0.5.0 (permanent link)
• Reviewed 2026-10-22

Service life

Years in service. The band runs from the shortest to the longest life the sources state, so it shows how much they disagree, not how long 80% of units last. The line is the median of the stated lives.

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Basis

• 83 years · Halton: Halton Region 2025 Asset Management Plan, p86 (planning life)
  Asset management plan (planning life). Compared with an image of the cited page.
• 100 years · London: 2023 Corporate Asset Management Plan, p95 (planning life)
  Asset management plan (planning life). Approved on text check: the label and value were found on the cited page.
• 75 years · Brantford: 2025 Asset Management Plan: Environmental Services, City of Brantford, Ontario, p11 (planning life)
  Asset management plan (planning life). Approved on text check: the label and value were found on the cited page.
• 90 years · Brantford: 2025 Asset Management Plan: Environmental Services, City of Brantford, Ontario, p11 (planning life)
  Asset management plan (planning life). Approved on text check: the label and value were found on the cited page.
• 90 years · Brantford: 2025 Asset Management Plan: Environmental Services, City of Brantford, Ontario, p11 (planning life)
  Asset management plan (planning life). Approved on text check: the label and value were found on the cited page.
• 75 years · Chatham-Kent: Detailed Asset Management Plan: Wastewater 2025, p12 (planning life)
  Asset management plan (planning life). Approved on text check: the label and value were found on the cited page.
• 80 years · Meaford: Municipality of Meaford Asset Management Plan - Core Assets (Appendix 1 to Report CAO2022-28), p165 (planning life)
  Asset management plan (planning life). Approved on text check: the label and value were found on the cited page.
• 52 years · Norfolk County: 2025 Asset Management Plan, p67 (planning life)
  Asset management plan (planning life). Approved on text check: the label and value were found on the cited page.
• 75 years · Orillia: City of Orillia Asset Management Plan 2025, p123 (planning life)
  Asset management plan (planning life). Approved on text check: the label and value were found on the cited page.
• 75 years · Sault Ste. Marie: Wastewater Asset Management Plan, City of Sault Ste. Marie, p14 (planning life)
  Asset management plan (planning life). Approved on text check: the label and value were found on the cited page.
• 108.3 years · Cornwall: 2025 Asset Management Plan City of Cornwall, p316 (planning life)
  Asset management plan (planning life). Compared with an image of the cited page.

How sources are chosen and recorded: sourcing policy.

Preventive maintenance

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Months from the schedule start. Download the tasks as CSV for a CMMS, or ask the MCP tool get_pm_schedule for dated visits.

Frequencies are ISO 8601 durations in the data (P3M = every 3 months).

Open questions

• These are Ontario accounting lives from municipal capital asset policies, not planning or observed replacement data.
• A short technology fact sheet (2000), not an O&M manual; it recommends the annual route inspection without detailed procedure.

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Citation

unfinished.one (2026). Sanitary forcemain, v0.5.0. https://unfinished.one/c/sanitary-forcemain/v/0.5.0

BibTeX

@misc{unfinished_sanitary_forcemain_0_5_0,
  title = {Sanitary forcemain},
  author = {{unfinished.one}},
  year = {2026},
  version = {0.5.0},
  url = {https://unfinished.one/c/sanitary-forcemain/v/0.5.0},
  note = {CC BY 4.0}
}

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