Abstract

Spatial Asset Management at Cobb County Water Systems
Track: Water, Wastewater, and Stormwater
Authors: Jeffery Campbell, Aaron Bowman, Jeremy Myers

Cobb County Water System began modernizing its spatial asset management system at the end of 2011 to better enable maintenance workers to take advantage of synergies between GIS and asset management systems. In a unified system of this kind, GIS maps provide a centralized dashboard for water system maintenance work while the integrated asset management system provides a repository of transactional data. The transactional storehouse gives GIS the ability to analyze trend data over time.

One problem solved through this approach is determining the water system asset's Business Risk Exposure (BRE). This value is a combination of an asset's condition, likelihood of failure, and consequence of failure. GIS provides analysis for decision making then asset management initiates repairs to correct problems.

This presentation focuses on technical GIS challenges faced, process considerations for integrated asset management, and paradigm changes involved with opening GIS to other systems.