Data Driven Decision Making

Water Services Strategic Plan 2025

2021 Accomplishments

Objective 1: Use Standards and Data to Drive Decision Making

Reporting Period:  January - June 2021

 Specific Responses

Champion & TEAM

Accomplishments

 Next Steps

Increase emphasis on standards in problem solving at all levels of the organization, effectively building a culture based on the Division’s standards

Water Services Director, SCADA IS Manager

Using standards and data to identify two important infrastructure needs in Water Reclamation and Stormwater to move forward.   

Work on a presentation to City Council and Administration to bring awareness of these needs and lay ground work for identifying funding strategies. 

Preface all planning discussions and investment proposals with the relevant standards

Using standards and data to identify future needs and create a history of activity for anaysis

Installing additonal flow meters, sensors and programs to track activity in all areas water. 

Develop a critical information/data list for key functions, including water production, maintenance, water usage, water quality, stormwater management, and wastewater treatment

 A list of data has been started for some sections, but not all. The help of the sections managers will be needed to accurately identify all data points

Develop a breakdown list of the sourceof data. Some sources will produce
  data that multiple sections will find important. An example of this is a VFD
  Water Services will develop a standard for VFDs including what data we get
  from them. This will be useful for Water production, Wastewater production and water Resources

Automate the work-order system and the Bi-Weekly Reports

 Some work orders and inspections can now regenerate in the time period specified by the managers that use  them

Wastewater basins are next. Work Orders will be set to auto create. The biweekly reports need to still be identified and automated

Use GIS, CMMS, SCADA, and other SMART technologies to optimize and automate the collection and sharing of data and information and billing for those services

GIS and CMMS continue to move into the treatment plants with the addition of new infrastructure drawn in GIS. The ability to create inspections and workorders for Valves in the wastewater plants is 90% complete 

Foundational SCADA issues
  will be defended and
  developed into addressable projects. CMMS will continue to move into the Wastewater plant  with the addition of Pumps, motors and VFDs

Maximize the use of GIS to organize data with respect to geographic location

Adding new Collections, Distribution, reclaimed and stormwater data to our GIS from As-builts and field collection has resumed  

Adding details about our treatment plants into the GIS. Fixing errors in our GIS data Moving to the ESRI utility Model. 

Employ accurate, organized usage data methods for billing and planning needs

1. Completed a surface water hydrology report based on 10 years of gauge and infiltration data for stormwater planning.  2. We continue to use the best data available to us.

Finer Usage data needs to be collected, GIS errors will continue to be identified and corrected. Errors in SCADA Data needs to continue to be verified and corrected.