If you don’t have time to do it right…when will you have time to do it over? by James Rains

With an aging system and retiring employees, new construction vs. rehab and maintenance, and migration from paper to digital - information is key to keeping a system accurate and functional for whatever needs may come. Whether it is adding an install date to a pipe in the ground or linking a job folder based on a Work Order ID, the right information is out there. It could be through the knowledge of a tenured employee, searching for files in a cabinet or scanned onto the network, even open communication with those actively performing maintenance. The sooner you can get it, the more prepared you will be.

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1. 2013 ARGIS Symposium James Rains GIS Tech II
2. If you don’t have time to do it right… …when will you have time to do it over?
3. Time is ticking away… “Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.” ― Aristotle
4. You better write it down, cause somebody’s going ask… “Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world...enabling us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn, at all distances of time and space.” ― Abraham Lincoln
5. A Brief History 1929 • Conway Corporation Forms 1966 • Job Tracking Starts 1999 • GIS Begins 2003 • Installation Date Recorded 2009 • Job Number Association 2010 • Going Paperless 2012 • Job Research Begins
6. A Look Back In Time Early Fall 1967 – 2” Water Line – Colonial Acres Sub. – South Davis & Hillman
7. Summer 1970 – 6” Water Line – Oak Forrest Sub. – Salem Road north of Prince Street A Look Back In Time
8. The Engineering Jobs / Work Order Book 1966 – 1997
9. As-Built Maps – Hand drawn Construction / As-Built Map
10. Water & Sewer Mylar Maps
11. Where’s My File?
12. Going Paperless
13. Searching Laserfiche
14. Tracking Job Numbers & Cost Value of the system Cost Depreciation
15. Applying Job Information Accuracy found in As-Built Drawing
16. As-Built Maps
17. Job Number Conversion
18. Use of Information 0 10,000 20,000 30,000 40,000 50,000 60,000 70,000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 New Water Main 19,325 50,424 59,030 30,413 33,581 62,723 53,935 18,888 24,266 30,812 17,796 23,243 New Wastewater Main 15,946 31,944 33,739 27,350 32,789 52,321 35,744 27,231 30,694 30,099 27,992 30,988
19. Use of Information Where are we having problems with our mains? How old is the pipe in the ground at these locations? Based on these problems and the age of the pipe, where would be the best location for rehab/repair?
20. In The Future…
21. Questions? James Rains | GIS Technician II ____________________________ Conway Corporation 800 South Harkrider P.O. Box 99 Conway, AR 72033 p. 501.450.6059 f. 501.328.3070 www.conwaycorp.com www.facebook.com/ConwayCorp www.twitter.com/ConwayCorp Thank You!