Washington SAW

Under the SAW grant for the State of Michigan, the GIS team at Giffels Webster has been assisting Washington Township in Macomb County Michigan with the implementation of an infrastructure asset management system related to their sanitary sewer network. The GIS team has facilitated in the development of an entire GIS suite including data standards, advice and recommendations for GIS hardware and software, creating an on line environment where city employees can view their assets, and providing customized tablets for field data collection. We migrated existing data into a centralized ESRI geodatabase, reviewed as-builts from as far back as 1970 to identify gaps in the data for our survey team to locate, established a set data model for all sanitary assets in the township, and migrated data onto a server at the township office. Our team consolidated and reorganized GIS data in a format that has allowed for streamlined use as well as any expansion of data into the future as the township grows. Data has been hosted locally at the Township and at ArcGIS Online and has helped the Washington Township Department of Public Works view data rapidly in real time and moved them from paper into the digital world. We have set up DPW staff with Android tablets for use in the field and have drastically improved how they identify assets and collect information about asset condition. This has reduced their overall overhead and costs throughout the township dramatically. We continue to provide on-site training and assistance from everything to teaching DPW crews how to use a tablet device to creating a web server to host inspection reports on line for linking to sanitary assets.