Abstract

Effectively Managing your Water System Through GIS and Web Technology
Track: Water, Wastewater, and Stormwater
Authors: Tom Kennedy, Scott Humphrey, Bruce Miller

In today's digital environment with multiple applications, formats, and data requirements, it has become increasingly difficult to efficiently manage a water distribution system, while taking advantage of the "best" available data. Customer Information System Databases, Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS), Hydraulic Modeling Software, and GIS software data requirements, platforms, and software requirements all vary greatly.

This presentation will be a live demo using Olivenhain Municipal Water District as the case study to how GIS can be implemented to integrate all of a utilities varying databases, and software applications into the "open-architecture" of GIS, providing a way for managers, engineering staff, and operators, to effectively monitor and manager their water system through a "user-friendly" and simple to use web application. Application integration can include: Hydraulic Modeling, valve exercising, automatic vehicle location (AVL), document management, billing and customer support, document management, and work order management.