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Track: Water Resources
Lee Smith
Lower Colorado River Authority
PO Box 220
Austin, TX 78767
Telephone: 512-473-4048
Fax: 512-473-3309
E-mail: lee.smith@lcra.org
Dianne Spinney, Brett Brown
Integrated Real Estate Management System (IREMS)
Defining Issue: The Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) is responsible for managing vast amounts of land resources in more than 58 counties. These resources stretch from the western Edwards Plateau of central Texas to eastern Matagorda Bay on the Texas coast. The LCRA needed an automated tool that would help manage a wide range of activities including acquisition of utility easements, land parcel management, transmission line routing, encroachment monitoring, and land utilization planning. Large amounts of spatial, tabular, and map data needed to be combined and analyzed for providing prudent management decisions that would benefit LCRA's extensive customer base. GIS Solution: A GIS plan was put into place to develop an ArcView application that would integrate the information necessary to manage LCRA's land assets. The solution involved consolidation of databases, corporate database design, GIS application programming, data layer development, and customer training. Methodology: The IREMS
application provides important, timely information to LCRA personnel and reduces the time needed for exhaustive manual research on land management issues. The IREMS application allows LCRA personnel to enter, query, and retrieve data about land parcels, land sales, leases, encroachments, and transmission line easements. The integration of large amounts of geospatial data will help LCRA be a better steward to the customers in its service areas. The IREMS application is also serving as a foundation for developing other specialized GIS application modules including watershed management, water modeling, and environmental protection. Software: The application involved a wide range of systems integration including UNIX workstations, document scanning, tablet digitizing, Windows NT clients and servers, ArcInfo GIS, ArcView desktop GIS, Powerbuilder software, SYBASE relational databases, and digital orthophoto quarterquads (DOQQs). These technologies were integrated to come up with a GIS application business
solution for comprehensively managing LCRA's land resources. New modules will heavily incorporate the use of map objects.
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