JTAC Luncheon

LUNCHEON DATE	TOPIC
May 15^th, 2008	Denver Water GIS Applications

Past JTAC presentations are now available under the JTAC category on the Technical Papers page.

Denver Water, the largest municipal water provider in the Rocky Mountain region, provides water to approximately 1.2 million customers. The utility’s water transmission and distribution system consists of over 2,600 miles of pipe ranging from 4-inch to 108-inch in diameter, over 18,000 fire hydrants, 34 water storage tanks, and 19 major pumping stations. In the early 1990’s, Denver Water initiated a major undertaking of developing a geographic information system (GIS) as a management tool for their facilities. The system has grown tremendously since its infancy and on-going management and significant enhancements of the system are planned in the future.

Brenda Reum, Denver Water’s Manager of Geospatial Information and Technology, will provide an overview of Denver Water’s GIS system, including lesson learned during its development, what features have found to be most effective and an overview of the significant plans that Denver Water has for its continued development and utilization. She will cover how the data is currently stored in the database and the future plans of how Denver Water will use the data for Mobile Workforce, Water Rates analysis, aging infrastructure predictive maintenance, and Customer Service applications. Cartographic output is still a major method of distributing the data, Brenda will discuss some of the problems encountered in producing maps for field staff and other interested parties.

The luncheon will be held at the Embassy Suites Hotel, 7525 E. Hampden, on the north side of the road about a half-mile east of I-25 at Roslyn Street (behind the "On the Border" restaurant and west of Tamarac Square). Luncheon check-in will be from 11:30 am to noon, at which time lunch will be served. The presentation and tour will follow lunch. The luncheon cost is $22 for AWWA or WEF members, $27 for nonmembers, and $15 for students. Please pay at the door either by cash or check, and make checks payable to “RMSAWWA”.

Registration for the luncheon is required. Registration may be done by e-mail at the following address: jtac@ch2m.com. Please register no later than the end of the day on Tuesday, May 13th, to reserve a spot. When registering, please provide the following information: name, affiliation, and the number of people for whom you are reserving. You will receive an email confirmation for your reservation. If you have not received confirmation by Tuesday, May 13th, please call Barb Osmer at 720.286.0778, or Steve Polson at 720.286.5376. Please do not call in lieu of using the e-mail registration to initially register, only if you do not receive confirmation. Please note that if you make a reservation and don't show or cancel by the end of the day on Wednesday, May 14th, you will be responsible for the cost of your lunch. If you make a reservation and don’t make it to the luncheon and don’t cancel, please send a check to cover the cost of your lunch (made out to “RMSAWWA”) to: