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Track: Water Distribution, Wastewater, Sewer
Michael Sweeney
Metropolitan Sewer District
1600 Gest Street
Cinncinati, OH 45204
Telephone: 513-244-5120
Fax: 513-244-1399
E-mail: michael.sweeney@cinmsd.rcc.org
Thomas Quinn, Babara Quinn, Timothy Ingram, Richard Allen, Richard Hammond, Alan Smith
GIS Support of Comprehensive Water Quality Improvement Programs
Hamilton County, located in southwestern Ohio, is a mixture of highly developed urban, suburban, and rural areas. Since the founding of Cincinnati, the first area settlement, over two centuries of development, use, and abuse has produced wide degrees of degradation within the approximate 400 square mile area. With regard to the water environment, significant contrasts are also reflected by the unique presence of both a national scenic river and a designated top-twenty most-impacted stream in North America, which are in proximity to each other and tributary to the Ohio River. The water quality impacts to the area are significant and include 17,000 private home wastewater treatment systems, 237 combined sewer overflows, sanitary sewer overflows, sewer line problems, and aging package plants and pump stations. Each impact has a multitude of information to be assessed, tracked, and communicated and shared within the organization as well as externally to policy makers and the public. Each impact also involves
multiple agency coordination where limited resources must be focused optimally. Presented and discussed from a water quality improvement perspective are GIS applications using Esri 's ArcInfo, ArcView, and MapObjects pertaining to - Sewer extensions to undeveloped areas - Sewer assessment projects in developed areas - Complaint analysis - Storm water removal programs - Water shed study support Enterprisewide technology pertaining to this effort, coordinated by the CAGIS (Cincinnati Area GIS) consortium including the incorporation of global positioning system (GPS), field use of GIS, document imaging, and hydraulic modeling are also presented and discussed.
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