City of Houston Storm Water Section

Storm Water Maintenance is currently responsible for maintaining more than 3,500 miles of storm water lines, 3,000 miles of roadside ditches, 75 miles of off-road ditches, and 160,000 inlets and manholes in the City of Houston

Houston faces potential natural disasters every summer. Through out the year Storm Water Maintenance repair and clean Storm Water lines.

Houston Storm Water Projects

12 Teams 5 members per team 1office personnel per

team and 4 field personnel

Jobs

3 year cycle

personnel

20 printed ESRI maps per week

10 shared maps with edited data

Check 60,00 inlets and manholes per year

Inspected 240 miles of Storm Lines per year

Obstacles

We had very unorganized way of storing completed map (Maps were folded and put in the file cabinet)

There was no way of accessing maps at offsite locations

The printed maps became damaged because The printed maps became damaged because of daily handling

Maps were lost because of human error and the project had to be reassigned to another crew to be completed again.

Updates to GIMS process took over 3 weeks to make any changes.

Powered by ESRI the City of Houston Graphic information & management system

New improved Workflow

A section is assigned to a field crew. Office personnel plots a map using ESRI and

print a 34 x 40 using Hp T2300 The printed file is saved and shared with all

office personnelFiled personnel check for errors and new Filed personnel check for errors and new additions to the Storm Water Line and make corrections on printed maps

Completed edited maps are scanned and shared with GIMS teams via our database.

GIMS teams makes corrections with in 2 days of receiving edited maps.

Plotted map printed and scanned using Hp T2300 eMFP

Database used with HP Slate 500 to enter data at offsite locations

Network Connected Design Jet

Design Jet 4000

We upgraded our plotter with the HP Designjet T2300 eMFP

ePrint & Share online Library

HP Print & Share

Benefits of using HP T2300 eMFP

Capture Printed and

Modified Maps

Share Instantly share

maps with EP&S from list of

Store Maps are stored

in online Library with different

Modified Maps Built in scanner

quickly scan maps either to EP&S , Network or Usb drive.

maps with EP&S from list of contacts

Saves time from delivering scanned maps in person

in online Library with different printing options

Access maps from offsite locations using online Library.

Plans for the Future