Monroe County Health Department Septic Inspection Using ArcPad and Trimble GeoXT Monroe County, Indiana Population:110,000 + Square Miles: 418 Land Parcels: 58,000 + Major City: Bloomington INDIANA UNIVERSITY General Information Monroe County

Monroe County Health Department Septic Inspection Using ArcPad and Trimble GeoXT The Monroe County Health Department was formed in 1965 Septic Permit Database initiated in 1980’s Scanning of hard copy permits began 1998 Total Permits since ,000 +

Monroe County Health Department Septic Inspection Using ArcPad and Trimble GeoXT A need existed to automate this process: How can we automate

Monroe County Health Department Septic Inspection Using ArcPad and Trimble GeoXT Microsoft Access Septic Permit Database maintained in the Health Dept

Monroe County Health Department Septic Inspection Using ArcPad and Trimble GeoXT ESRI shp file for Septic System locations containing 1285 points Collected with Health Dept staff using paper forms and non-integrated GPS (staff acquired the GPS coordinates and wrote them on the paper form) Our goal was to make this process more efficient and upgrade the technology

Monroe County Health Department Septic Inspection Using ArcPad and Trimble GeoXT Perform reliable, accurate, and validated field data collection. Integrate GPS, rangefinders, and digital cameras into GIS data collection. Share enterprise data with field-workers for updating and decision making. Improve the productivity of GIS data collection. Improve the accuracy of the GIS database and make it more up to date. What did we want to accomplish: What could we acccomplish

Monroe County Health Department Septic Inspection Using ArcPad and Trimble GeoXT ESRI and Trimble provided an integrated solution with equipment and software that was within our budget

Monroe County Health Department Septic Inspection Using ArcPad and Trimble GeoXT Microsoft SQL Server Trimble GeoXT HEALTH DEPT EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT HIGHWAY DEPT Monroe County GISIntegration MC Field GIS users

Monroe County Health Department Septic Inspection Using ArcPad and Trimble GeoXT Our first goal was to define the existing process used by the Health Department for Septic System inspections

Monroe County Health Department Septic Inspection Using ArcPad and Trimble GeoXT Monroe County Health Department Wastewater Sanitarian arrives to Complete Septic System inspection First thing to inspect:

Monroe County Health Department Septic Inspection Using ArcPad and Trimble GeoXT More realistically an inspector will occasionally find a failing or non-compliant Septic System

Monroe County Health Department Septic Inspection Using ArcPad and Trimble GeoXT Time to call in the heavy equipment

Monroe County Health Department Septic Inspection Using ArcPad and Trimble GeoXT Gary Cain, Monroe,County Wastewater Sanitarian explains to the installer how he excavated in the WRONG yard

Monroe County Health Department Septic Inspection Using ArcPad and Trimble GeoXT Monroe County Health Dept Staff prepare a site map from The County GIS using Arcview, so installers can alleviate the previous slide depiction

Monroe County Health Department Septic Inspection Using ArcPad and Trimble GeoXT Trimble GeoXT GPS with ArcPad collects Coordinates of the Septic and elevation data

Monroe County Health Department Septic Inspection Using ArcPad and Trimble GeoXT Monroe County Health Department GIS – GPS Integration

Monroe County Health Department Septic Inspection Using ArcPad and Trimble GeoXT Health Dept staff prepare data for ArcPad using the getdata button in ArcView

Monroe County Health Department Septic Inspection Using ArcPad and Trimble GeoXT Once in the field with the GeoXT/ArcPad: The inspector can collect a new septic point feature And acquire the State Plane coordinates

Monroe County Health Department Septic Inspection Using ArcPad and Trimble GeoXT Once a point is collected, custom forms appear to enter attribute data These forms are constructed with ArcPad Application Builder

Monroe County Health Department Septic Inspection Using ArcPad and Trimble GeoXT After the field collection is complete, the Inspector places the Trimble GeoXT in the desktop cradle and synchronizes the data collected to the GIS database This is also how the data is initially transferred to the GeoXT

Monroe County Health Department Septic Inspection Using ArcPad and Trimble GeoXT

Monroe County Health Department Septic Inspection Using ArcPad and Trimble GeoXT Microsoft SQL Database now integrated with the Field Data Collection After the field collection is complete, the office staff can view the data and add any other pertinent information

Monroe County Health Department Septic Inspection Using ArcPad and Trimble GeoXT

Monroe County Health Department Septic Inspection Using ArcPad and Trimble GeoXT

Monroe County Health Department Septic Inspection Using ArcPad and Trimble GeoXT

Monroe County Health Department Septic Inspection Using ArcPad and Trimble GeoXT

Monroe County Health Department Septic Inspection Using ArcPad and Trimble GeoXT The data collected in the field, now appears in ArcView with the attributes attached. This entire process saves redundancy and eliminates data entry in the office by Health Dept Staff.

Monroe County Health Department Septic Inspection Using ArcPad and Trimble GeoXT Monroe County Health Department