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City Water, Light and Power in Springfield, Ill., has selected Trimble's UtilityCenter software as the enterprise GIS solution for mapping and managing the city's water infrastructure assets. CWLP's electric department currently uses UtilityCenter for GIS, mapping, outage management, and field staking, and the water department will begin using the software suite for GIS, mapping, and integration into their water system modeling solution. As part of a year-long project to map and collect data for CWLP distribution infrastructure, field crews will collect data to map water infrastructure field assets, such as 5,000 hydrants, 16,000 valves and 52,000 meters, using Trimble's handheld GPS devices. Trimble will oversee the data collection and conversion as well as migrating paper records to the new UtilityCenter GIS database. "The mapping project will improve our operations and put the water department more on par with the efficiency that the electric department currently operates in terms of system planning and response," said CWLP General Manager Todd Renfrow. "With better management of our water infrastructure, making repairs and providing customer notifications will be so much more efficient and on target that our response times should vastly improve."
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