Abstract

Mining Enterprise Memory at a Medium Sized Utility District
Track: Water, Wastewater, and Stormwater
Authors: Richard Lortz

A medium sized Northwest Utility District has leveraged its GIS in support of developing an asset based Maintenance Management System. Previously unmapped water service features were required before the system could be implemented. We used GIS software to create, manipulate, and validate the features. We utilized data from our enterprise billing system to create an initial parcel based point feature class, but that was only a beginning. We will discuss how we utilized our initial resources, how we modified our workflow(s), and how we became aware of unsuspected resources that ultimately led to developing a superior data layer. We share our experience in hopes that others will more fully realize and effectively utilize what they have at hand, and increase awareness of unsuspected resources in their periphery.