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CALIFORNIA water writes Esri • Spring 2011 GIS for Water/Wastewater In This Issue Fine Wine to Enterprise GIS Esri on the Road p2 Cucamonga Valley Water District Esri Online p2 Esri News p2 The Cucamonga Valley is an area that lies Cucamonga Valley Water District (CVWD) GIS Puts Culver City Sewer Maps in p6 Their Place between the cities of Los Angeles and San was formed in 1955 as a special district under Bernardino in San Bernardino County, the provisions of Division 12 of the California Subsurface Utilities Mapping Program p8 Decreases Cost and Reduces Risk California. Originally known for its vast State Water Code and is an independent unit of vineyards and wineries, the valley hosted local government. It was formed from 23 small iWater—Take Your GIS to the Next Level p11 60 wineries and over 35,000 acres of vine from agricultural water systems and pipelines and the mid-1800s to the 1940s. In recent years, serves the City of Rancho Cucamonga and sewer connections and an average daily de- most of the vineyards have given way to unprec- portions of the cities of Fontana, Ontario, and mand of approximately 50 million gallons. edented growth in residential, commercial, and Upland. CVWD serves over 180,000 custom- Its water source is from purchased water industrial development, with two wineries and ers within a 47-square-mile service area that (Metropolitan Water District), ground water under 1,000 acres of vineyard remaining. includes 50,000 water connections and 35,000 wells, and surface runoff from the local foot- hill canyons. From its inception in 1955 until 1997, the district, like most utilities, used paper-based Cucamonga Valley Water District E atlases and valve file cards to keep informa- District Boundary tion. Field representatives and inspectors kept their own information on any field in- stallations and changes, penciled in on their Unincorporated Area of San Bernardino County (City of Rancho Cucamonga Sphere of Influence) individual atlases. Some of the changes would find their way to the Engineering Department for inclusion on the atlas, but many did not. ·210 Managers and supervisors didn’t have a good Rancho Cucamonga Fontana handle on information that could be used in Upland water modeling, on aging pipelines, or for fu- §¨¦15 ture planning. In 1997, it was determined that UNINCORPORATED AREA OF SAN BERNARDINO CVWD needed to bring the district into the COUNTY Information Age, and thus its geographic in- §¨¦10 formation system (GIS) was born. Ontario The first order of business was to develop a ·60 strategy to implement the GIS. Esri was con- Ontario International Airport tracted to develop the database model with Legend Nobel Systems, Inc., doing the data capture CVWD Service Boundary (75.2%) City of Rancho Cucamonga (25,117 Acres) of over 6,000 as-built construction drawings. (17.9%) Rancho Cucamonga S. O. I. (5,996 Acres) (<1%) City of Upland (27 Acres) The land base and centerline data already ex- (5%) City of Fontana (1,630 Acres) (1.9%) City of Ontario (632 Acres) isted in both the City of Rancho Cucamonga Total Service Area = 33,402 Acres or 52 square miles ± continued on page 4 Esri News Esri on the Road Esri International User Conference: American Water Works Association Annual Conference & Exposition Where Technology Sparks Your June 12–16, 2011 Washington, D.C., USA Imagination www.awwa.org However you use GIS, the Esri International User Conference (Esri UC) offers ways Esri International User Conference July 11–15, 2011 to do it better. This year’s event will be held July 11–15 in San Diego, California. For San Diego, California, USA professionals in the water, wastewater, and storm water industries, Esri UC offers esri.com/uc sessions and technical demonstrations in mobile GIS, climate change, metering, treatment, hydraulic modeling, and more. National Rural Water Association H2O Xpo October 4–6, 2011 This one-of-a-kind event is your opportunity to explore the power of geospatial Louisville, Kentucky, USA technology and join a thriving community of GIS professionals who are passionate www.H2o-xpo.org about their work. Find out more at esri.com/uc. Water Environment Federation Technical Exhibition and Conference October 16–19, 2011 Los Angeles, California, USA www.weftec.org Pollutec Horizons November 29–December 2, 2011 Paris, France www.pollutec.com Esri Online Community Speaks Up at Spatial Roundtable Pull up a virtual chair at spatialroundtable.com and join the conversation of GIS thought leaders as they address topics requested by the geospatial community. Follow the Esri Water Community on Twitter Keep up with the latest GIS news, especially as it relates to the water industry, by following Esri on Twitter: @esriteamwater. Access the Water Resource Center This website is for the ArcGIS water, wastewater, and storm water utility community. It provides useful templates and best practice information en- abling you to implement ArcGIS to manage your water utility information, perform your daily op- erations, and support your long-term planning. Visit resources.arcgis.com/content/water-utilities. 2 water writes esri.com/water Where technology sparks your imagination Esri International User Conference July 11–15, 2011 | San Diego, California Register by May 20, 2011 esri.com/uc Copyright © 2011 Esri. All rights reserved. G46803_FedCon_Winter_125372.indd 11 5/10/11 7:47 PM continued from page 1 Fine Wine to Enterprise GIS and San Bernardino County’s GIS systems and capture using GPS. The disparate databases tem utilizing Microsoft’s SQL Server 2005 was used as the basis of CVWD’s GIS. This ini- within the district were also consolidated into and ArcGIS Server Standard Enterprise with tial process took approximately 18 months to ones that were compatible with GIS. ArcSDE. It was determined that Azteca’s complete. Over the last 12 years, with technol- Although championed by a forward-thinking Cityworks would be the CMMS application ogy constantly improving, the GIS has gone board of directors, the full potential and power and work in concert with the iWater product through several iterations of land base ad- of this system was not realized until 2007, when infraMap for field data collection for water/ justments and an increase to 9,000 captured it was determined that the district needed to wastewater. Weston Solutions was contracted as-builts of water, recycled water, and waste- move in the direction of a computerized man- to help facilitate the rollout of these appli- water, with the majority of data capture now agement maintenance system, or CMMS; GIS cations. Office desktops and front-counter being done in-house. would be at the core of this development. applications used the GeoViewer 6.2 data Originally, the district’s GIS was used to viewer from Nobel Systems, Inc. Figure 1 construct paper and digital atlases that could GIS Challenges shows the design of the enterprise GIS system be readily updated from field changes and to With the advent of these changes, it was nec- as it is today. provide exhibits for board members and meet- essary to upgrade the GIS system from the The initial rollout for the CMMS was to ings with additional improvements of data personal geodatabase to an enterprise sys- the Customer Service and Water/Sewer divi- Figure 1. Business Approach to the Enterprise GIS Design (Drawing Format Taken from Providence Water Supply Board Article, Summer 2008 Water Writes) 4 water writes esri.com/water sions, where it was tested both in-house and a possible fly-through or 360° photo of various for Tablet PCs. Replicated geodatabases are in the field before being released to the rest of facilities to aid in operational efficiency. currently stored locally on the hard drives that the Operations department (Production and The district will also be integrating SCADA utilize a two-way synchronization each eve- Treatment divisions). Field crews use ruggized from Iconics Genesis 32 into the GIS and the ning to the master geodatabase. Tablet PCs with the infraMap application for H2OMAP Water software for system modeling. The district will also explore the creation work order processing and field data collec- Another system the GIS will be connected of more web-based applications and map ser- tion such as valve exercising, hydrant flushing, to is Sungard’s HTE Financial software that vices on both its intranet and the Internet. sewer line jetting, and providing redlined contains the district’s customer and billing in- In this time of severe drought, in California drawings of field changes to the GIS group formation. Because of HTE’s proprietary soft- and elsewhere, GIS can provide the answer to via e-mail when the laptops are synchronized ware, this will require an interface to be built long-term planning in use, storage, and the each evening to the master database. and may only render a one-way data flow from movement of water within the district. The An example of the work order workflow HTE to the GIS without the ability to put up- effort to provide customers with the most ef- would be a service order being created in dates back into HTE. ficient service and highest water quality is Cityworks by a customer service representa- In the field, the district is waiting for im- paramount, and GIS holds the key. tive from a customer call-in and forwarded provement in speed for wireless connectivity For more information, visit esri.com/water. to the appropriate field service representa- tive (FSR) for investigation. Depending on the severity of the problem, either the FSR or wa- Special Thanks to Our ter crew would be dispatched to remedy the problem. If a leak is detected, the field crew 2010 Esri Water/Wastewater Sponsors converts the service order into a work order on the Tablet PC, which runs both Cityworks and infraMap applications.