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Track: Electric and Gas Utilities
Bruce Meighen
EDAW, Inc.
3475 Lenox Road Suite 100
Atlanta, GA 30326
Telephone: 404-365-1110
Fax: 404-365-1129
E-mail: meighenb@atlanta.edaw.com
Julia Kraft
Siting and Environmental Design Information System
Defining Issue: Automating Tennessee Valley Authority's transmission line siting, substation siting, and environmental design process. GIS Solution: EDAW is currently developing an automated Siting and Environmental Design Decision Information System (SEDDIS) for the Tennessee Valley Authority's Siting and Environmental Design Department (SEDD). Methodology: Tennessee Valley Authority's Siting and Environmental Design Department (SEDD) is responsible for all of TVA's transmission and substation siting projects including siting reports and environment assessments. The SEDDIS will be an integrated siting and environmental review support tool. The objective of the development is to automate SEDD's existing siting and environmental design process. The present vision for SEDDIS is to allow TVA's location engineers and environmental planners to easily access and use aerial photography, satellite imagery, GIS data such as land use/land cover, environmental, cultural, topography, and engineering drawings for
all siting projects. The information will be active allowing the engineers to site transmission lines on screen by integrating the layers of available information. A click of a button will launch programs such as ArcView and Intergraph so the project team does not need to know specific software packages. The following SEDDIS development tasks will be discussed during the presentation: requirements analysis, existing siting data inventory and analysis, SEDDIS interface development, GIS software customization, and SEDDIS transfer and training. EDAW views the design of the interface as a collaborative effort in which the cumulative knowledge of EDAW and TVA's siting team joined with EDAW's Integrated Solutions Group (ISG) will be used to create SEDDIS. SEDDIS will provide an opportunity to make the work day more efficient and effective by creating a tool that increases the access to and efficient use of digital information. To the best of our knowledge, the SEDDIS will be the first automated transmission
siting and environmental design information system. The subject should be of great interest to all workshop attendees since the technology can be applied to other disciplines such as FERC Relicensing, Land Management Planning, and Real Estate. Software: The application will be written in Visual Basic and Avenue to access the capabilities of ArcInfo, AutoCAD, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, dBASE, and Oracle.
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