Like most water and wastewater utilities, the Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati constantly strives to do more with less.
Beginning in 1989 with the release of the Smale Commission report on community infrastructure, the district’s Wastewater Collection Division recognized that a GIS-centric and GIS-forward approach would play a key future role in asset management.In 2016, the collection division developed an innovative and integrated model to seamlessly connect long-term planning, short-term projects and daily operations. The program enhances stakeholder communication and collaboration, boosts productivity and significantly improves the division’s overall efficiency.At the core is a GIS-centric asset management database, a dynamic
