West Saint John Groundwater Supply: A Development Project Report

This report outlines the development of a potential groundwater supply for West Saint John by BGC Partners, focusing on providing clean drinking water to the city. The project includes identifying suitable locations, hydraulic testing, and developing a numerical groundwater flow model to ensure a sustainable pumping rate of 12.5 ML/D. The report details scope management, a work breakdown structure with an itemized budget, a Gantt chart of major project tasks, and a project integration management plan. It also addresses investment risk management, relevant standards and laws, key performance indicators, and the basis of design. Accompanying documentation, including budget details, stakeholder information, and a design flow diagram, are provided, along with a Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) chart for project scheduling. Desklib offers a variety of resources, including past papers and solved assignments, to support students in understanding complex engineering projects.

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Development of a Potential Groundwater Supply for West Saint John by BGC
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1. Project Overview
1.2 Project definition
The project nominated in this paper is development of a potential groundwater supply for
west Saint John. This engineering project is undertaken by BGC partners. The Groundwater
supply system will be developed in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. The client of the
project is City Of Saint John. In the field of real estate markets and financial services BGC
technologies is one of the leading engineering project development companies headquartered in
London and New York.
In order to offer clean and 24X7 drinking water to the people living in city of West Saint
John in Canada the Government authority has decided to develop a groundwater supply system.
The project is owned by BGC partners. In other words, the city retained BGC partners for
determining where and if the water supply system will be required by the people of Saint John.
Numbers of potential target areas or regions are identified and the best promising area that is
selected is the South Bay. In the deeper pre glacial river channel area issues like sand and aquifer
occurred. Before making final selection for development BGC Company also conducted
hydraulic testing of the production scale. The testing rate for one year is ranged between 5ML/D
and 9ML/D. In addition to this a pumping has been carried out in two other deep production
scale wells.
With the hydraulic and pumping test BGC has developed a numerical groundwater flow
model before commencing the water supply system. This specific model was prepared and used
for predicting the prospect aquifer retort regarding pumping in different ranges. It has been

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analyzed that the sustainable 12.5 ML/D pumping rate is feasible for the developers and client as
well.
1.1 Scope management
Before initiating the project, assigned project team including project manager identified
different locations throughout where the deep drinking water supply channel will flow. The
scope of the project is to test the quality of soil for the chosen location. It is the role of the
experts to do the testing successfully. After that, before final commence, the project team
members had conducted a hydraulic test to measure the range of production scale. If the
production scale is found to be accurate or meeting the expectation of water supply then only the
project can be executed successfully.
In order to successfully implement the water supply development project in Saint John,
BGC partners should first identify the project scope and then in order to reduce the work
complexity the large project needs to be divided into small segments. For each segment different
project team members are assigned. After assigning the project team members to each task it
become their responsibility to accomplish that activity in the assigned time line and budget as
well.
1.3 Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) including itemised budget/expenses and
project phases

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1.1
1.2
2 3
3.1
3.2
3.3
3.4
3.5
4
4.1
4.2
4.3
4.4
4.5
4.6
4.7
5
5.1
5.2
5.3
Development of schdeule
for watersupply channel in
saint John
$88,984.00 1,432 hours
Initiation phases
$21,840.00 480 hours
Soil testing
$6,000.00 120 hours
Hydraulic testing to
select the water supply
channel
$5,040.00 120 hours
selection of
channel/route to set
pipelines
$4,736.00 128 hours
Project planning
$7,704.00 208 hours
Risk management plan
$720.00 24 hours
Procurement
management plan
$960.00 24 hours
Time and cost
management plan
$2,520.00 56 hours
Feasibility analysis
$1,824.00 48 hours
Analyzing population
project in Saint John
$1,680.00 56 hours
Project development
stage 1
$52,064.00 536 hours
Social impact assessment
survey in SAAINT John,
Canada
$2,400.00 80 hours
Topological survey
$2,000.00 40 hours
Geographic based
modeling
$3,200.00 64 hours
Surface water modeling
$2,016.00 48 hours
Groundwater Modeling
$5,248.00 128 hours
Water distribution
network modeling
$3,360.00 80 hours
Installing pipelines
$33,840.00 96 hours
Project closure phase
$2,640.00 80 hours
Stakeholder signoff
$720.00 16 hours
Final draft submission
$720.00 24 hours
Post maintenance
planning
$1,200.00 40 hours
Figure 1: Work Breakdown Structure for the project
(Source: Created by author)

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2. A Gantt chart of all major project tasks
WBS Task Name Duration Start Finish Resource
Names Cost
0
Development of schedule for
water supply channel in saint
John
124 days Mon
10/12/09
Thu
4/1/10 $88,984.00
1 Initiation phases 30 days Mon
10/12/09
Fri
11/20/09
Project
manager $21,840.00
1.1 Soil testing 15 days Mon
10/12/09
Fri
10/30/09 Geographer $6,000.00
1.2 Hydraulic testing to select
the water supply channel 15 days Mon
11/2/09
Fri
11/20/09 civil engineer $5,040.00
2 selection of channel/route to
set pipelines 8 days Mon
11/23/09
Wed
12/2/09
civil engineer,
designer $4,736.00
3 Project planning 23 days Thu
12/3/09
Mon
1/4/10 $7,704.00
3.1 Risk management plan 3 days Thu
12/3/09
Mon
12/7/09
Operation
manager $720.00
3.2 Procurement management
plan 3 days Tue
12/8/09
Thu
12/10/09
resource
manager $960.00
3.3 Time and cost management
plan 7 days Tue
12/8/09
Wed
12/16/09
Project
manager $2,520.00
3.4 Feasibility analysis 6 days Thu
12/17/09
Thu
12/24/09
finance
manager $1,824.00
3.5 Analyzing population
project in Saint John 7 days Fri
12/25/09
Mon
1/4/10
Operation
manager $1,680.00
4 Project development stage 1 53 days Tue
1/5/10
Thu
3/18/10 $52,064.00
4.1
Social impact assessment
survey in SAAINT John,
Canada
10 days Tue
1/5/10
Mon
1/18/10
Operation
manager $2,400.00
4.2 Topological survey 5 days Tue
1/19/10
Mon
1/25/10 Geographer $2,000.00
4.3 Geographic based modeling 8 days Tue
1/26/10
Thu
2/4/10 Geographer $3,200.00
4.4 Surface water modeling 6 days Tue
1/26/10
Tue
2/2/10 civil engineer $2,016.00
4.5 Groundwater Modeling 8 days Fri 2/5/10 Tue
2/16/10
designer,
Geographer $5,248.00
4.6 Water distribution network
modeling 10 days Wed
2/17/10
Tue
3/2/10 civil engineer $3,360.00
4.7 Installing pipelines 12 days Wed Thu labour, Other $33,840.00

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3/3/10 3/18/10 cost[1]
5 Project closure phase 10 days Fri
3/19/10
Thu
4/1/10 $2,640.00
5.1 Stakeholder signoff 2 days Fri
3/19/10
Mon
3/22/10
Project
manager $720.00
5.2 Final draft submission 3 days Tue
3/23/10
Thu
3/25/10
Operation
manager $720.00
5.3 Post maintenance planning 5 days Fri
3/26/10
Thu
4/1/10
Operation
manager $1,200.00
3. Project Integration Management (PIM) plan
The services offered by the company are a combination of technology and talent as well.
These days the BGC partner company is a pioneering worldwide brokerage companies which is
service in both the financial market and real estate market frequently. The BGC partner offers
services in terms of information and other back office services, clearing, broker dealers and trade
execution also. Throughout project development life cycle period the phases those are to be
integrated include:
 Development of a project charter
 Development of a project management plan
 Direction and managing project works
 Monitoring and control the project work
 Perform integrated change control
 Project closure

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4. Investment risk management plan
Risk
Id
Risk name Possibility Impact Score Mitigation strategy
R1 Inappropriate
procurement plan
while developing the
water supply channel
Possible 3 High 4 High 12 Development of proper
procurement plan at the
project initiation phase
R2 Inadequate
investment cost for
the project
Rare 1 Catastrophic
5
Low 5 The government and
investers should conduct a
feasibility study before
initiating the project
R3 Lack of appointed
expertise
Likely 4 Medium 3 High 12 The skill, knowledge and
expertise of the members
should be examined and
also on job training
program should be
arranged by the project
owners
R4 Delay in
implementation
Unlikely 2 High 4 Medium
8
Based on the complexity
of each activity the
timeframe for each
activity should be
prepared and assigned

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accordingly
R5 Inappropriate
allocation of
resources
Most
likely 5
Catastrophic
5
Extreme
25
It is the responsibility of
the resource manager to
make the resource
management plan
appropriately.
5. Relevant standards and laws
In order to successfully implement this pipeline development project in Saint John
(engineering project) it is the responsibility of the project manager and all project team members
to follow certain standards and laws simultaneously. The construction and engineering law
covers different common construction issues and engineering laws and regulations as well it
includes making construction projects, construction contract supervision, contract level issues,
experts analysis and dispute resolution in 28 jurisdictions. The municipalities Act give that an
occupier or owner of the premise, building or structure who has been given notice for comply the
properties.
6. Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
In order to implement any project successfully it is essential for the project manager to
consider certain Key Performance Indicators (KPI). However, during the project development
life cycle period, tracking of key performance indicators is little complex. This is much difficult
to identify that how the project can govern towards the objectives and goals using the Key

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performance Indicators. The KPI are categorized into four categories such as timeliness, budget,
quality and effectiveness. The various KPI considered for the implementation of drinking water
supply channel development project in Saint John are:
 Cycle time
 On-time completion percentage
 Time spent
 Adjustment done in the project schedule
 Planned hour vs. total time spent
 Conflict with the project resources
 Budget variance
 Planned values
 Net promoter score
 Numbers of total errors
 Numbers of change requests
 The things that makes the KPI
7. Basis of Design (BOD)
The living population of the city of Saint John, New Brunswick was facing major
challenges due to insufficient supply of drinking water and the living population. The BGC has
developed and calibrated a numerical flow model with the data obtained from the pump test. In
addition to this, the water samples have recovered from the production scale wells. It has been
analyzed if the below developed structure is followed while preparing the water supply channel

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then, the project will meet success criteria, objectives and goals and primary goal. Above all the
project should meet the Canadian drinking water quality.
Figure 2: Basic design of the water supply channel
(Source: 4)
The four main actions those are taken for development of the water supply channel in
Saint John are formation of vapor cavity, flow reversal and Pressure spike.
8. Appropriate accompanying documentation, log book templates , drawings
Project: Development of drinking Water supply channel in Saint John, Canada.
Project budget The budget estimated for the successful
completion of the project is $90,000

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Time In order to accomplish the project within
estimated budget of $90,000 is 16 months.
Project stakeholders  Project manager
 Raw material suppliers
 Finance manager
 Civil engineer
 Civil instructor
 Environment analyst
 Government of Canada
The simulation model components considered
for the project are
Input schedule
Batch elements and entity
Tank
Market demands
Production schedule
Pipe line fill
Terminal demand

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Figure 3: Design flow of the drinking water supply channel in Canada
(Source:7)
9. Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT)