Dekalb Water Treatment Plants

Challenge

Located 65 miles outside of Chicago, the City of Dekalb’s five water treatment plants and three storage tanks serve drinking water to over 45,000 local residents. While their water department had successfully ran a GIS program for their linear street assets (valves, hydrants, mains, etc.), they had no asset information attributed for the vertical assets inside their water treatment facilities. After being introduced at an Esri event, Dekalb knew LandTech Consultants was the partner to help them enrich their asset management and field operations.

Prior to working with LandTech, identifying individual assets inside of the facility was extremely difficult.

- Justin Netzer, Utility Superintendent, City of Dekalb

Solution

LandTech has completed two of the five water treatment plant projects to-date. After seeing such project success, the City of Dekalb is partnering with LandTech to scale the solution system-wide. Modeling and integration of the three additional water treatment facilities was completed in 2022.

The 3D GIS models LandTech provided were extremely valuable to our organization and workflow. With one click I can see what the asset is and who I need to contact for different parts. The field technicians on-site have access to the same data set, in real-time and while onsite. We plan on working with LandTech to expand this program to other facilities.

- Justin Netzer, Utility Superintendent, City of Dekalb

Watch The Demo

In this 2-minute clip, see how the GIS-Digital Twin integration improves vertical asset management. Perform work orders, tasks, order replacement parts, view the 3D GIS model, and more – all able to be viewed directly in their Maximo enterprise asset management platform. Want to take a deeper dive?

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