Abstract
 Using GIS to Integrate Capital Projects for Holistic Watershed Management Track: Water Resources Author(s): Jean Drew, Patrick Hartigan, Jon Meade, Matt Hollon The city of Austin's Watershed Protection Department's recent Master Plan calls for solutions that integrate its flood, erosion and water quality missions. Past experience has revealed that single-mission capital improvement projects are more costly (ignoring opportunities and economies of scale) and often create unanticipated negative impacts on the very resources the Department is trying to protect. In short, determining the cumulative impact and synergistic benefit of implementing multiobjective projects in the same watershed is very complex. Therefore, the Department developed a system to integrate staff and geographic information from all three missions. At its heart is a GIS tool that combines all the previously disparate data into a single application. Managers of individual projects use the GIS tool to recognize shared problems and connect opportunities. Our talk will demonstrate how project selection and preliminary engineering changes improves with the use of complex spatial analysis. Jean Drew City of Austin Watershed Protection and Development Review PO Box 1088 Austin , TX 78767 US Phone: 512-974-2272 E-mail: jean.drew@ci.austin.tx.us Patrick Hartigan City of Austin Watershed Protection and Development Review 505 Barton Springs Road Suite 1100 Austin , TX 78704 US Phone: 512-974-1863 E-mail: pat.hartigan@ci.austin.tx.us Jon Meade City of Austin Watershed Protection and Development Review 505 Barton Springs Road Suite 1100 Austin , TX 78704 US Phone: 512-974-2477 E-mail: jon.meade@ci.austin.tx.us Matt Hollon CIty of Austin Watershed Protection and Development Review 505 Barton Springs Road SUite 1100 Austin 78704 US Phone: 512-974-2212 E-mail: matt.hollon@ci.austin.tx.us |
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