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OWNER Miami-Dade Water & Sewer Department CLIENT CONTACT Jose Lopez Computer Service Manager 3071 SW 38 Avenue, Suite 331 Miami, FL 33146 PROJECT COST $400,000 COMPLETION DATE December 2014 DESCRIPTION The Miami-Dade Water and Sewer Department (WASD) is one of the largest public utilities in the United States having more than 7,700 miles of underground water lines, the equivalent of a one-way trip from Miami to Beijing, China. On the wastewater side, there are about 6,200 miles of sewer lines. That’s longer than a roundtrip from Miami to Seattle. WASD provides service to over 2.4 million customers. Approximately 330 million gallons of water are drawn every day from the Biscayne Aquifer for consumer use with a service area of about 396 square miles and 14 potable water pump stations and about 1,000 sewer pump stations. In 2008, the entire water and sewer infrastructure serving Miami Springs was transferred to the Miami- Dade Water and Sewer Department, adding to the system an area of about 80 Million SF with 4,000 costumers, representing about 90,000 Gals of water usage per quarter. PDS worked with WASD to provide support services for implementation of the Department’s GIS system for water and sewer infrastructure, with the priority of Miami Springs acquired utilities. To achieve this, PDS had six GIS Specialists working at WASD entering water and sewer information into the WASD GIS System. Project also includes field data collection and as-built plans research to collect all the required information necessary for the input of all water and sewer infrastructure in Miami Springs. This project will allow Miami Springs Infrastructure to be added to the system and in the end, help with new system installations and to rapidly pinpoint the location of equipment that requires repair or upgrading, as well as to more quickly identify the facilities associated with and properties affected by outages, water leaks and other service problems or emergencies. Premiere Design Solutions Staff’s role in the project is: Use ArcGIS 10 custom program to enter new projects into the GIS layers Use Arc GIS 10 to research reported problems with GIS and/or as-builts and correct them Use ArcGIS 10 and/or custom ESRI AML program to validate and modify GIS layers Read water/wastewater as-builts to investigate and resolve potential inconsistencies in the data Run and interpret error reports and perform QA/QC on GIS input data Perform visual, tabular, and geographic checks on GIS layers Field collection and research of additional information Communicate with County personnel to resolve issues with and Maintain GIS data GIS Services – Miami Springs Infrastructure Miami-Dade Water & Sewer Department Miami-Dade County, Florida 140