Abstract

IMPROVING INTEGRATED STORM WATER MASTER PLANNING: PLAN SMARTER
Track: Water, Wastewater, and Stormwater
Authors: Bradley Roeth, Jeff Shoenbacher, Ahmad Salah

Most storm water master plans incorporate GIS technology to some extent. We present an example of how GIS can be efficiently used to save time and resources during storm water master planning and the implementation of a capital improvement plan, in Park City, Utah. In an effort to design and standardize data layers and streamline Park City's storm water efforts, we developed an SDSFIE-based template for storm water master plans. The geo-database includes underground infrastructure, surface features and a "time-aware" water quality monitoring dataset for Cadmium (Cd) and Zinc (ZN). Time-aware maps of up/downstream Cd/Zn help in evaluating the City's TMDL benchmarks and reviewing the effectiveness of engineering and institutional controls. The template uses pipe age, size, material and soil type as a multi-faceted criteria to prioritize field televising for pipe condition assessment. The application consists of desktop application with customized tools, a mobile GIS application and a web portal.