Maintenance crews
Labor for catch-basin cleaning, culvert work, ditch maintenance, drainage repairs, inspections, and related field activity.
BreakEven+™ for Municipal Stormwater & Drainage
Forecast the cost of keeping stormwater moving before the budget is committed.
BreakEven+™ helps municipalities forecast labor, fringe, overhead, G&A, support labor, materials, contractors, and project costs for storm sewers, culverts, catch basins, drainage maintenance, and flood-control work.
Storm SewersDrainage MaintenanceCapital Improvements
Separate from wastewater treatment
Stormwater is about runoff, drainage, maintenance, and flood-control infrastructure.
Stormwater programs manage rainwater runoff through storm sewers, culverts, catch basins, ditches, detention systems, outfalls, drainage structures, and related maintenance or improvement work.
The budget has to account for the crews and support structure behind the drainage system.
BreakEven+™ helps separate direct field labor from fringe, supervision, departmental overhead, administration, materials, and outside project costs.
FALIB® helps make the budget assumptions easier to explain.Build the stormwater budget from the work
Start with planned maintenance, labor hours, and the infrastructure being supported.
Indirect support
Foremen, supervisors, engineering, administration, facilities, and other support resources behind the field crews.
Materials & direct inputs
Pipe, aggregate, concrete, structures, erosion-control materials, ODCs, and other project inputs.
Capital & contracted work
Contractors, specialty services, engineering consultants, testing, and other outside portions of drainage improvement projects.
Illustrative stormwater model
Connect labor hours and indirect pools to the annual drainage program.
The example below is illustrative only. It shows how a municipality could organize direct labor, fringe, indirect costs, support labor, and operating inputs into an annual stormwater and drainage budget.
$0.00Illustrative direct wage mix per productive hour
$0.00Illustrative fringe and payroll burden per hour
$0.00Illustrative overhead and support allocation per hour
$0.00Illustrative fully supported planning rate
Illustrative annual stormwater & drainage model
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Separate field hours from indirect support and project inputs so management can see what is driving the annual requirement.
Budgeted Direct Field Hours0Illustrative maintenance, inspection, and repair hours supporting the annual drainage program.
Budgeted Support / Indirect Hours0Illustrative supervision, engineering support, administration, and other support effort represented in the model.
Illustrative values are not municipal benchmarks, engineering estimates, accounting guidance, or recommended rates. Actual configuration depends on the municipality’s own labor, infrastructure, allocation methodology, maintenance program, project scope, policies, and financial records.
Maintenance and capital work
Stormwater budgets can include recurring maintenance and larger improvement projects.
A municipality may self-perform routine drainage work while using outside contractors for larger culvert replacements, storm sewer extensions, detention improvements, or flood-control projects.
- Keep recurring maintenance labor separate from major capital projects.
- Forecast direct crews, supervision, and support labor using the same cost foundation.
- Add pipe, aggregate, concrete, structures, erosion-control materials, and other direct inputs.
- Keep contractors and consultants separately visible when outside work is required.
- Use FALIB® reporting to document how the annual or project budget was built.
Underground storm sewer infrastructure
Drainage capital work can extend well below the street.
Storm sewer replacement, pipe extensions, structures, crossings, and related excavation can combine municipal engineering and inspection with materials, contractors, and internal support costs.
- Separate internal engineering and inspection hours from outside construction.
- Forecast pipe, structures, aggregate, concrete, and other direct project inputs.
- Keep contractor and subcontractor costs distinct from municipal labor.
- Carry the same indirect-cost foundation into the project estimate.
Stormwater & drainage use cases
Use one cost-intelligence framework across recurring maintenance and infrastructure improvements.
Storm sewer maintenanceForecast crews, inspections, repairs, materials, and support for municipal storm sewer systems.
Culverts & crossingsEstimate labor, materials, equipment support, and contractors for culvert maintenance or replacement.
Catch basins & inletsModel cleaning, repair, replacement, inspection, and recurring maintenance requirements.
Drainage ditchesForecast mowing, excavation, erosion-control work, repairs, and other self-performed drainage activity.
Detention & flood controlOrganize internal labor, support, materials, contractors, and project costs for larger drainage improvements.
Outfalls & erosion controlBuild maintenance or project budgets around field labor, materials, inspections, and support requirements.
Different from wastewater
Keep stormwater drainage planning separate from sanitary wastewater treatment.
Stormwater & drainage
Rainwater runoff, storm sewers, culverts, catch basins, ditches, detention systems, outfalls, flood-control work, and related maintenance or capital improvements.
Water & wastewater
Drinking-water treatment, sanitary sewer collection, pumping, wastewater treatment, utility operations, and related water-system infrastructure.
FALIB® Reporting
Carry the stormwater cost foundation from the annual forecast into project detail.
FALIB® connects labor and indirect-cost assumptions to project, production, and consolidated reporting so the municipality can preserve the logic behind drainage budgets and improvement projects.
FALIB®-Mr
Use employee-specific wages, fringe, classifications, and labor assumptions when detailed internal labor is needed.
Explore FALIB®-Mr →FALIB®-Sr
Model labor by crew, classification, department, maintenance group, or another strategic grouping.
Explore FALIB®-Sr →FALIB®-Jr
Carry the originating cost structure into a specific maintenance estimate, project, or change.
Explore FALIB®-Jr →FALIB® P&P
Show labor hours, production, quantities, materials, costs, unit rates, and other project detail.
Explore FALIB® P&P →FALIB® Roll-Up
Bring accepted estimates and changes into a summarized financial view while keeping the supporting records intact.
Explore FALIB® Roll-Up →BreakEven+™ by SERVVIAN®
Give stormwater and drainage budgets a clearer labor and project-cost foundation.
Forecast the crews. Separate the indirect pools. Add materials and project inputs. Then use FALIB® reporting to explain the assumptions behind the annual drainage program or capital improvement.