Utilities GIS design and development project

The Solid Waste Authority of Palm Beach County Florida (SWA), with the help of G&O, is building a GIS database and related applications to manage leachate and gas collection system assets at North County Resource Recovery Facility (NCRRF) and Western (future) landfills. The initial project scope involves:


 * 1) Use SWA business priorities to identify GIS technology needs
 * 2) Design an ESRI geodatabase schema that supports identified requirements
 * 3) Convert the existing AutoCAD-based Atlas drawing features into GIS format

Project Scope
The project scope is divided into three tasks. The first: Define Business Use Cases, identifies SWA Utility group business priorities and lays the groundwork for the geodatabase design and data conversion tasks that follow.

Task 1: Business Use Cases
The SWA Utility group's enterprise GIS project launched with a kickoff meeting on 2008-02-28. Participants were introduced to project goals and methodology. G&O interviewed key utility staff to collect business priorities, processes and environment. Enterprise GIS use case findings and recommendations reports task results.

Task 2: ArcGIS Geodatabase Design
During kickoff meeting interviews, participants explored how SWA's GIS technology may be applied to support the Utility group's business goals. Reducing utility damage, greater success locating utility assets and higher efficiency through mobile information access surfaced as examples where improvements may be realized. The Utilities ArcGIS geodatabase design recommends GIS features and design specifications that will support these objectives.

Resources

 * (775kb) - project team review powerpoint 2008-04-02