Water Distribution Database Updates

Weston & Sampson was selected by the City of Fitchburg, Massachusetts to construct a water distribution database built upon ESRI GIS.

The city was awarded a grant from the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Project (MassDEP) and its State Revolving Fund (SRF) partner, the Massachusetts Clean Water Trust, to continue its Asset Management efforts related to the water, wastewater, and stormwater systems. In addition to the creation of the water system, the city requested an update to its existing wastewater and stormwater GIS data. The city-supplied data was in scanned PDF and CAD formats. Our team used the ESRI Water Utility Data Model as a base to construct the water distribution data set. Our team reformatted and orthorectified the scanned plans, and digitized the information within the plan to the corresponding utility layer. We also created a separate feature layer outlining the plan drawing area. Individual plans were linked to the boundary and made available to the end user.