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Using GIS for Utility Locates

Case Study: Hamilton Southeastern Utilities (HSE) Recently HSE implemented a remote access base station system through the Internet. The system is a wireless data broadcast network for highly accurate, real-time GPS applications that uses a nationwide digital wireless coverage from multiple rovers to a single base station or a network of multiple base stations. The utility has combined the base station system with their GIS, a multi-level website and a utility locate application within their GIS to significantly reduce effort and costs Currently the utility estimates an annual savings of $280,000 for the utility locate application alone and a 25% reduction in the number of work orders processed annually. Through the integration of survey and GIS, HSE has developed an enterprise system providing solutions across multiple disciplines. This presentation will discuss the HSE case study as well as defining the need to do utility locates and it will talk about the processes of applications built in ArcMap. Although this case study is in Indiana, this process and end result can work for any municipal government or private utility company.