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Challenge

Build a Water Network Leak Inspection Route Planner

Analyze hydraulic pressure drops and simulated pipe break indicators to prioritize acoustic leak inspection routes. Compile field surveyor itineraries targeting high-probability water loss corridors across municipal utility networks.

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Challenge brief

What you are building

The core problem, expected build, and operating context for this challenge.

Analyze hydraulic pressure drops and simulated pipe break indicators to prioritize acoustic leak inspection routes. Compile field surveyor itineraries targeting high-probability water loss corridors across municipal utility networks.

Municipal Water Network Operations Engineer

Ingest water distribution network topology, pipe roughness coefficients, and nodal pressure telemetry.

Simulate pressure-dependent leak discharges across pipeline segments using the WNTR simulation library.

Cluster pipeline nodes exhibiting abnormal head loss into contiguous physical inspection sectors.

Formulate an optimized technician routing itinerary balancing acoustic survey coverage and critical transit corridors.

Geospatial map display overlaying pipe pressure anomalies, leak probability contours, and sequenced inspection route waypoints.

Utilize synthetic EPANET-style water distribution network files (.inp format) representative of urban district supply sectors. Starter examples below are synthetic. They are not downloaded records.

Water Network Tool for Resilience Leverages WNTR network modeling and pressure-dependent demand simulation routines to compute hydraulic head losses caused by pipe leaks.

langgraph, wntr, networkx. LangGraph manages stateful routing workflows between hydraulic simulation analysis, clustering nodes, and technician dispatch generation. Local Python execution runtime with hosted Claude API for synthesizing daily crew briefing instructions.

Submit runnable source, pinned dependencies, setup commands, a working interface, example outputs, and a recorded end-to-end demo. Include tests and an action log.

Identifies pipe segments with simulated leak discharges above 1.5 liters per second.

Generates an ordered inspection route visiting top-ranked leak clusters within an 8-hour shift constraint.

Produces step-by-step navigation waypoints and expected pressure sensor checks.

```json [ { "input": { "sector_id": "DMA-04", "nodes": [ { "node_id": "N1", "pressure_psi": 52, "base_demand_lps": 4.5 }, { "node_id": "N2", "pressure_psi": 31, "base_demand_lps": 4 }, { "node_id": "N3", "pressure_psi": 28.5, "base_demand_lps": 3.8 } ], "pipes": [ { "pipe_id": "P101", "start": "N1", "end": "N2", "length_m": 450 }, { "pipe_id": "P102", "start": "N2", "end": "N3", "length_m": 320 } ], "crew_available_hours": 8 }, "expected_output": { "suspect_pipes": [ "P101", "P102" ], "priority_order": [ "P102", "P101" ], "estimated_survey_time_hours": 5.2, "route_waypoints": [ "N3", "N2", "N1" ], "expected_leak_rate_lps": 3.2 } }, { "input": { "sector_id": "DMA-09", "nodes": [ { "node_id": "N10", "pressure_psi": 58, "base_demand_lps": 2 }, { "node_id": "N11", "pressure_psi": 57.5, "base_demand_lps": 2.1 } ], "pipes": [ { "pipe_id": "P201", "start": "N10", "end": "N11", "length_m": 200 } ], "crew_available_hours": 4 }, "expected_output": { "suspect_pipes": [], "priority_order": [], "estimated_survey_time_hours": 0, "route_waypoints": [], "expected_leak_rate_lps": 0 } } ] ```

Leak route plans are purely investigative; water main valve closures and excavation work require certified utility operations permits. Use mock external writes. Require human review before any real deployment.

Rules

Participation guide

Leak route plans are purely investigative; water main valve closures and excavation work require certified utility operations permits. Use mock external writes and human review.

Delivery guide

How work is evaluated

Evaluation

Identifies pipe segments with simulated leak discharges above 1.5 liters per second. Generates an ordered inspection route visiting top-ranked leak clusters within an 8-hour shift constraint. Produces step-by-step navigation waypoints and expected pressure sensor checks.

Submission format

Runnable source, pinned dependencies, setup commands, working interface, example outputs, recorded demo, tests, and action logs.

Datasets

Challenge datasets

Public datasets, plus the private datasets you have access to.

Evaluation rubric

How submissions are scored

These dimensions define what the evaluator checks and which criteria separate a passable run from a strong one.

Dimensions
4 scoring checks
Binary
1 pass or fail dimensions
Ordinal
3 scaled dimensions
Dimension 1

Complete workflow

Ingest water distribution network topology, pipe roughness coefficients, and nodal pressure telemetry. Simulate pressure-dependent leak discharges across pipeline segments using the WNTR simulation library. Cluster pipeline nodes exhibiting abnormal head loss into contiguous physical inspection sectors. Formulate an optimized technician routing itinerary balancing acoustic survey coverage and critical transit corridors.

Score scale
012
Score 0

Missing or incorrect.

Score 1

Partly complete, with documented gaps.

Score 2

Complete, with reproducible evidence.

Dimension 2

Correctness and evidence

Identifies pipe segments with simulated leak discharges above 1.5 liters per second. Generates an ordered inspection route visiting top-ranked leak clusters within an 8-hour shift constraint. Produces step-by-step navigation waypoints and expected pressure sensor checks.

Score scale
012
Score 0

Missing or incorrect.

Score 1

Partly complete, with documented gaps.

Score 2

Complete, with reproducible evidence.

Dimension 3

Review interface

Geospatial map display overlaying pipe pressure anomalies, leak probability contours, and sequenced inspection route waypoints.

Score scale
012
Score 0

Missing or incorrect.

Score 1

Partly complete, with documented gaps.

Score 2

Complete, with reproducible evidence.

Dimension 4

Safe execution

Leak route plans are purely investigative; water main valve closures and excavation work require certified utility operations permits.

Binary check

This dimension contributes its full weight only when the submission satisfies the requirement. Partial credit is not awarded.

Learning goals

What you should walk away with

  • Ingest water distribution network topology, pipe roughness coefficients, and nodal pressure telemetry.

  • Simulate pressure-dependent leak discharges across pipeline segments using the WNTR simulation library.

  • Cluster pipeline nodes exhibiting abnormal head loss into contiguous physical inspection sectors.

  • Formulate an optimized technician routing itinerary balancing acoustic survey coverage and critical transit corridors.

Resources and assets

Reference links and supporting material

Dataset notes

Utilize synthetic EPANET-style water distribution network files (.inp format) representative of urban district supply sectors. Supplied starter examples are synthetic, not source extracts.

Challenge setup

Configuration summary for this challenge.

Challenge input

Input details are not configured.

LangGraph

Runtime for stateful agent workflows.

Evaluated output

No output checks are configured.

Evaluation checks
  • Ingest water distribution network topology, pipe roughness coefficients, and nodal pressure telemetry. Simu...
  • Identifies pipe segments with simulated leak discharges above 1.5 liters per second. Generates an ordered i...
  • Geospatial map display overlaying pipe pressure anomalies, leak probability contours, and sequenced inspect...
Configured evaluation evidence
  • 2 public reference cases
Configured runtime
  • 2 configured tools

Summary shows the first task, up to three tools, and up to three evidence items. Open the technical recipe to view all configured items.

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Configured tools

Action Space
  • LangGraph · Optional
Orchestration
  • LangGraph · Optional

Evaluation contract

  • Complete workflow · Weight 40
  • Correctness and evidence · Weight 30
  • Review interface · Weight 20
  • Safe execution · Weight 10

Reference cases

  • 2 public reference cases

Workflow tasks

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Recipe freeze marker

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