Abstract
 Butler County Department of Environmental Services "Takin' It to the Streets" Track: Water, Wastewater, and Stormwater Author(s): Bruce Butler BCDES, located in southwestern Ohio, is pushing GIS to where it is needed most--the streets. Field crews, responsible for maintaining 1,400 miles of both water and sewer mains and providing wastewater treatment and drinking water for 100,000 people, are using GIS to make their jobs more effective. Applications: Maintenance crew uses real-time GIS data during water line and sewer line failures. Meter-reading is more efficient with mobile GPS units to create GIS map layers that reflect multiple meter locations. Biosolid crews use GPS and GIS mapping to delineate farm fields to track biosolids residual applications for EPA compliance. Numerous layers have been added to ensure that BCDES delivers services in the most efficient manner possible such as aquifer boundaries, sampling stations, and water system pressure zones. The GIS backbone has also proved to be instrumental for master planning and computerized modeling of our systems. Bruce Butler Butler County Environmental Service 130 High Street Hamilton , OH 45011 US Phone: 513-887-3107 E-mail: ButlerBA@butlercountyohio.org |
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