Abstract

Mobile GIS for Rural Private Drinking Water Quality Control
Track: Water, Wastewater, and Stormwater
Authors: Jeffrey Volpe, Eric Brady

Rural private drinking water quality is a major health concern for Genesee and Orleans Counties of NY and a GIS solution was required to better inventory and track wells and sanitary systems. The solution was an enterprise GIS to centralize the data and make it readily accessible to Environmental Health and Planning staff. The solution uses a mobile GIS for GPS collection and attribution of well and sanitary features. The field data is synchronized to the central server where it is reviewed using a management web application. The web application is used to query and view at-risk wells, illegal septic systems, and staff work and service requests. The legacy paper files have been scanned and linked to the system for a single point of access to current and historic well and sanitary system data.