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Grant Raudenbush, PSM GISP GIS Dept. Administrator, Mueller Service Company The 80’s in Surveying The 90’s in Utility Data Conversion The 00’s in Utility Data Development The 10’s promoting and developing Utility GIS
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Mueller Service Company Installations, Maintenance, Assessments GIS development & solutions
Subsidiary of Mueller Water Co. 150 Years of Water Utility Manufacturing
Sister of Mueller Systems Smart Metering (AMR/AMI)
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Michael Bryant GIS Specialist with Macon Water Authority in Macon, GA. Graduate of Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville, GA in 2006 with a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science.
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Macon Water Authority MWA Water Distribution System has approximately 1,425 miles of water mains and service lines serving approximately 54,000 metered customers. The Authority also operates a sewage collection system, which includes approximately 250 miles of interceptor sewers and approximately 950 miles of sanitary sewer lines serving over 41,000 customers.
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the Need the Solution the Hardware the Software the Project Process the Geospatial QaQc Process
[email protected] the System-wide water valve assessment that would fulfill several strategic needs: By locating the valves they would create an inventory for their GIS By exercising each valve they would identify problematic (broken) valves The number of turns Direction to close [Right or Left] Valve Depth Torque pressure required to turn each valve GPS locations and much more
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Locate valves: Valve Cards & MWA Field Liaison Clean out, raise and or re-align valve boxes Exercise the valves hand tools for smaller valves Automated mechanical machinery
Record assessment attribution and collect GPS data for each valve Process this data and integrate it into Macon’s enterprise GIS and their Customer Maintenance Management System (CMMS), ™Cityworks.
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the Trimble’s Yuma tablet: Windows® 7 Pro, Intel® Atom™ 1.6 GHz processor, WiFi, Bluetooth®, 2 cameras, SDIO and ExpressCard slots, and highyield GPS positioning capable of 2-5 meter accuracy in real-time or after post-processed differential correction
The GPS Pathfinder® ProXH™ receiver, antenna, and allday battery in one. Subfoot (