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Geographic
Information System (GIS),
Mid-Dakota Rural Water System
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Miller,
South Dakota
The Mid-Dakota Rural Water System is an entity that provides
drinking water to communities and rural users in Central South
Dakota. The 3,800 mile system has approximately 5,000 customers
including 28 towns or community water systems in 14 counties in the
east-central portion of South Dakota.
The process of developing a GIS for the Mid-Dakota Rural Water
System began in 1996. The primary focus was put on the creation of a
base map and the system datasets. As the system was constructed,
survey grade GPS technology was used to record the physical location
of the pipeline routes and facilities of the Rural Water System. The
data was then used as the system data layers.
Bartlett & West developed the first version in late 2000. The
initial version included base map datasets as well as GIS datasets
of the pipeline and facilities. Bartlett & West continued updating
the GIS datasets and adding customized applications such as quick
navigation tools, hotlinks, One-Call functions, and an interface to
Mid-Dakota’s accounting software.
Recently Bartlett & West has begun to develop the next generation of
the system which will migrate the current GIS to a web based
Enterprise GIS. Bartlett & West is currently finalizing a Needs
Assessment for the next generation and will be begin its development
and implementation as soon as the project is approved. |
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Marais des
Cygnes Public Utility Authority – Miami County, Kansas
Over the last several years Miami County has seen tremendous growth.
As the Kansas City metropolitan area continues to expand and highway
improvements are constructed, further aggressive growth is certain
to follow. A large share of this growth is expected to occur in the
Cities of Louisburg and Paola. With the eminent growth on the
horizon and existing water facilities that are either near capacity
or reaching the end of their useful life, these two Miami County
Cities face the challenge of securing a reliable supply to
accommodate the demand.
In recognizing the common need and inherent efficiencies in
combining efforts, the Cities have formed the Marais des Cygnes
Public Utility Authority with the intent of identifying the most
cost effective manner of developing and delivering the needed water
supply. The group has been working together to identify potential
water supply sources and evaluate their ability to meet projected
future demands for the next 40 years and beyond. Through two years
of preliminary engineering study, the Cities have decided upon a new
treatment plant on the Marais des Cygnes River about five miles
southeast of Paola.
The Authority contracted with Bartlett & West to design the new
facilities. The treatment plant will initially be capable of
processing five million gallons per day (MGD), with the ability to
be expanded to ten MGD. In addition, eighteen miles of 16-inch
through 24-inch transmission line will be installed from the
treatment plant to the two cities. Two new water towers, each
750,000 gallon in capacity, will be constructed. |
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South Central Regional Water System
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Burleigh, North Dakota
Not having to worry about water quality and quantity problems was
what motivated the South Central Regional Water District to expand
its existing regional water supply system in North Burleigh County.
Bartlett & West worked with the SCWD to design the expansion project
which will ultimately deliver treated Missouri River water to
approximately 3,800 rural residents and nine bulk users located
within the eight cities and additional 2,000 or more water users in
south central North Dakota.
The North
Burleigh expansion project will provide an excellent quality water
supply and will alleviate many existing water quality and quantity
problems that are predominant in south central North Dakota. The
project will also reduce the stress currently being placed on the
City of Bismarck's water distribution system, due to their
requirement to supply SCWD with potable water.
The system was
the first application in North Dakota on the use of angle wells
drilled under the Missouri River which provided a good quality raw
water source that takes advantage of river bank filtration through
the natural occurring sand beneath the river. |
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Harvey
County Rural Water District No. 1 – Harvey County, Kansas
Serving approximately 1,000 rural customers and two cities in parts
of Harvey, Marion, Butler and Sedgwick Counties, Harvey County Rural
Water District No. 1 has been purchasing all their water needs from
the City of Newton since their inception in 1976. In 2004, the
District began negotiating with the City for an increase in both
quantity and volume. The District discovered the cost was going to
be significant. In response, they initiated a search for a new
supply. Working with Bartlett & West and a local geologist, the
District was able to locate a high quality groundwater supply at a
location approximately seven miles west of their boundary in an area
un-served by a rural water district.
The new site posed difficulties, both politically, with opposition
from several local landowners, and with chloride contaminations in
nearby areas. In response, the District installed ten observation
wells in a one-mile perimeter around the high production wells to
protect nearby private wells and provide an early warning to the
District if the chloride contamination began to spread, although
geologic studies show this was a very remote possibility. The
groundwater supply at the location discovered by the District is
exceptional in quality, requiring only chlorine treatment.
As part of the project, still in the design stages, 120 new rural
households have signed up for water service. A distribution system
has been designed to serve these, increasing the geographic area of
the District by about 60 square miles. The entire project is being
funded through a 20-year loan and will result in no rate increases,
while doubling the District’s current supply capacity. Construction
is expected to begin in the fall of 2007. |
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Needs Assessment and GIS
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Standing Rock Water System – Ft. Yates, North Dakota
Bartlett & has been
selected to complete a GIS Needs Assessment for the Standing Rock
Water System. To complete this assessment, we will utilize a four
step method that we have developed that allows clients to reach
their goals.
The cycle begins
with the organization and assessment of the business processes, or
Needs Assessment phases. This is often followed with defining the
appropriate and applicable systems needed and setting standards for
these systems. Once this has been established, the implementation
phase is instigated. This phase of the process assists our clients
in defining and developing the strategy to implement appropriate
services including enterprise systems, individualized applications,
consulting service or other needs.
For the Standing
Rock Water System, we outlined the steps below so that all of the
information needed to plan the development of an enterprise GIS is
included.
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Required GIS functionality.
– The Standing Rock Water System requires certain functions, such as
spatial analysis, querying data, displaying data,
uploading/downloading data, editing data, and possibly advanced
analysis requiring special programming. The Needs Assessment will
identify the functionality required by the different agencies
involved in the project.
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Necessary GIS data. – The agencies involved use different types of data, which
may include PLSS data, parcel boundaries, facility locations, aerial
photography, and many more that will be incorporated into the GIS.
This data may already exist in a GIS format. However, some data are
hard copy maps or tabular data sets. The Needs Assessment will
identify how this information will be used by GIS applications.
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Customized GIS Applications needs. - In evaluating the responsibilities and workflow
within agencies, certain tasks are identified that can be done more
efficiently or effectively in a GIS. These tasks will form the basis
of GIS applications. As part of the Needs Assessment, application
descriptions will be prepared to describe these tasks.
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Procedures for maintaining GIS data.
- The Needs Assessment will determine the responsibility for data
creation, updates and maintenance by evaluating the workflow and
processes within agencies. |
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State Devils Lake
Emergency Outlet Project
– Northeast, North Dakota
In an effort to lessen the affect of flooding conditions currently
in the basin, the Devils Lake Emergency Outlet project was created
and Bartlett & West and Boyle Engineering teamed together and
responded with a ground-breaking design which allowed the North
Dakota State Water Commission to construct a much needed flood
control project which minimized impacts to the environment.
This joint venture project was a well designed combination of
pipeline and open channels, which allows the North Dakota State
Water Commission to operate with the greatest amount of flexibility.
The unique lake intake design allows the State Water Commission to
operate during the allotted seven-month period, and still be able to
remove the intake during the winter months, to avoid any potential
damage to the intake structure due to forces exerted by ice.
The system was designed to be wetland-friendly to limit the need for
permitting and minimize impacts to the environment. The system also
allowed a significant variance in flow rates without the use of
multiple pumping units. |
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Clarence Cannon Wholesale Water Commission – Missouri
Bartlett & West has had the opportunity to work hand-in-hand with
Clarence Cannon Wholesale Water Commission (CCWWC) for several years
to form a water commission and to provide professional engineering
services for production and distribution facilities including a 4.5
million gallon per day (MGD) surface water treatment plant near Mark
Twain Lake, 160 miles of transmission mains, three booster pumping
stations, and 2.5 million gallons of system storage. The current
service area has grown to twelve cities and nine rural water
districts who are members of the CCWWC.
Most recently, Bartlett & West designed an intake and water
treatment plant expansion to increase capacity to ten MGD. Important
aspects of the project have been hydraulic analysis for the pipeline
and booster pumping stations, preparing the preliminary engineering
reports, environmental permitting, and production of the plans and
specifications in compliance with the requirements of the Missouri
Department of Natural Resources. In addition, Bartlett & West has
created and maintained a system model that is used to evaluate
options related to providing water to meet demands for the ever
growing customer base. The model is currently being used to evaluate
system improvements based on projected future demands. |
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AVS
Project 2004-1, RWP – Beulah, North Dakota
Providing the Basin Electric Power Cooperative with the most
economical and long term solution to their cooling water needs is
what motivated Bartlett & West to use hydraulic modeling in
preparation of the design where the use of alternate pipe materials,
steel and ductile iron pipe were used in the design of this new raw
water pipeline project. Through this project 42” of existing
prestressed concrete cylinder pipe, originating from Basin Electric
Intake Pump Station to the AVS Power Plant, was replaced.
The design developed by Bartlett & West allows AVS to deliver raw
water to their power plants and the adjacent synfuels plant in
volumes up to 36,000 gallons per minute, utilizing one or a
combination of five pumps at the Intake Pump Station. AVS found less
pressure is required with the new pipeline to deliver water to the
powerplant. |
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Xenia
Rural Water District – Iowa
Xenia Water District is a regional water system designed by Bartlett
& West from its inception more than 20 years ago.
Our long working relationship with the District has lead to 5,500
satisfied rural and urban water customers in the small cities of
Dallas, Boone, Madison, Polk, Story, Greene, Guthrie and Adair,
Iowa. In addition to household customers, the system also provides
water service to five bulk users.
In more recent years Bartlett & West has provided a variety of
services to the Xenia Water District including a preliminary mater
plan report for the North Service Area resulting in the preparation
of plans and specifications for several construction phases of the
North Service Area.
When water treatment became a priority for Xenia RWD, Bartlett &
West was there to help prepare the preliminary report for the North
Water Treatment Plant which was constructed in Stratford, Iowa.
Bartlett & West oversaw the groundwater test drilling program,
design surveying, completed the project plans and specifications,
worked with Xenia to pre-select key equipment for the project, and
was heavily involved in the contract administration during
construction. The plant went on-line in 2005.
When Xenia RWD started collecting GPS data for their new pipelines
after they were constructed, Bartlett & West became more than a
designer to the District. Xenia sends the field data to Bartlett &
West for processing and then the firm sends the final GIS data back
to Xenia for their use in ArcView. If needed, this data can be used
to generate paper maps of the water system. This process is also
capable of incorporating add-on users into the GIS data base. |
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