BEST PRACTICES
GOING MOBILE: HOW ONE SANITATION DISTRICT MODERNIZED ITS FIELD OPERATIONS Before implementing Cityworks in 2016, the Central San operations crews worked from printed field maps. That changed with the Cityworks mobile native app. Here’s what we did to ensure widespread adoption of the new technology. BY IAN MORALES, GIS ANALYST, CENTRAL CONTRA COSTA SANITARY DISTRICT
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entral Contra Costa Sanitary District (Central San) in California strives to be a utility of the future by pioneering innovative technologies and cutting-edge practices. The GIS and asset management team is the tip of the spear in this effort. Before we implement a
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new tool or system, we evaluate it to ensure it helps us address one or more of these goals: • Breaking down traditional silos by increasing systemic communication and collaboration • Improving established practices to become best practices
• Increasing access to data and improving transparency • Increasing data-driven decision making • Implementing proven technology to improve effectiveness and/or efficiency Making our GIS-centric systems
