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The same valves, next month, with last month’s number beside them.
Utility rounds repeat. That is the whole job of the record: the same asset, the same check, a new reading, and a clear view of what is still open on the system.
Water crews lose the afternoon to the embankment and the radio at the same time. Electric co-op inspectors lose it between poles. Tidep assumes the device will be offline for part of the day. The route is loaded before the truck leaves. The queue is still there if the app is killed.
Riverward Water walks fourteen reservoirs on two routes. They did not start by naming every valve in the system. They named the ones the route already stopped at. The Tuesday pack used to take about six hours to assemble. Review now takes about forty minutes. The walking did not get shorter. The retyping did.
East Ward has two inspectors. Substations are monthly. Poles are a cycle, not a heroic single year of data entry. Last cycle they had 1,742 poles in the register and 63 open items, each with a name.
If your “system of record” is a shared folder of photos from the pole, start with the report pack, not with a GIS project. Photos stay on the point you checked. The pack leads with what failed.