Kevin Holle – GIS Manager City of Fort Wayne, IN Indiana GIS Conference 2009 Bloomington, IN February 17-18, 2009 Stormwater Impervious Surface Mapping & Billing Updates Increases Accuracy & Revenues
Just a Little History of the Impervious Surface Program Why We Created a Stormwater Utility Original Billing Categories, 1991 Steps to a Better System, Resources That We Used Back Then $4 mil Revenue; 4200 non-residential On-going Daily Maintenance Incoming Information; Credits System
Original 1989 Aerial
Original Street Base Map
2005 Ortho w/ Original Impervious Areas
The “Birthday Scrub” Wanted to start in 2005 for 10yr B-day Waited for Statewide Orthos, rec’d Intern in 2006 for Pilot 11% of Non-Res Properties Measured Estimates from Pilot & Projections 2007 Full-blown Project, “low-key” Resources We Used This Time
Intergraph GeoMedia Professional
2005 Statewide Orthophotography
MSN Live Maps (Pictometry ®)
City Planning Landuse Map
City Utilities Billing System “CUBIS”
Allen County Parcel Map (internet)
Allen County Assessor Master Property Database
2005 Ortho w/ Original Impervious Areas
2005 Ortho w/ NEW Impervious Areas
2005 Ortho w/ Old & New Areas
2005 Ortho
2008 Ortho
Benefits, Statistics & Summary Pilot project %’s; 30% of areas increase, 32% will decrease, 38% will stay the same. However, 38% ERU will increase, 32% will decrease, and 30% will stay the same. Est. $82,000 increase; final was right on. $88,000 increase in annual Stormwater revenues (currently a $10 million revenue stream and 5,200 non-residential areas) Decrease in credits & debits since accurate, so saves time processing Decrease in GIS Tech time spent on making area adjustments High-impact and accurate picture can now be faxed or ed to customer for their approval instead of a field check by GIS Tech Since visually Ok now, will add to GIS intranet for Customer Service, Development Service, Engineering, Planning, and all Employees to use instead of passing around the customer for information 1,570 hours for interns cost $20,000 – great ROI Plan for 2 or 3 years to do cursory check again (parking lots!)
Credits Troy Gray – Lead City GIS Technician Liz Nagel – City Utilities Data Control Don Clevenger – City Utilities Billing System Programmer, ATOS Origin on-site vendor GIS Interns – Jeff Macke (Valparaiso), Evan Neubacher (Purdue), Ben Ruhl (IPFW), Julie Macke (St Francis) IGIC – for the 2008 GIS Excellence Award for this Project