Abstract

Pipe Dream to Reality: A GIS Upgrade Project for AWWU
Track: Water, Wastewater, and Stormwater
Authors: Kathryn Browning, Tina Miller, Nancy Lerner

This presentation will discuss how Anchorage Water & Wastewater Utility leveraged GIS for asset management to build a seamlessly integrated asset inventory of horizontal assets. We will discuss where we were and why a GIS upgrade project was necessary. We will explain what we wanted and how we justified the project. We will describe what we did and the payoff. We will summarize why the project worked and how our unique culture at AWWU helped to facilitate this success. Finally, we will explain why we call our integrated asset inventory, 'the gift that keeps on giving'.