Houston Engineering & City of Moorhead

Choosing the Right Solution for FloodInfrastructure Inspection in the field

Compare and contrast Esri's Survey123 and Collector

Dave Kirkpatrick

Houston Engineering Inc

Brad Anderson, GISP

City of Moorhead GIS

North Dakota GIS Users Conference

Wednesday, September 20th 2017

• History of annual spring floods in the Red River valley

• The need for mitigation projects to protect property and infrastructure

• Flood mitigation projects that provide city-wide protection require maintenance and inspection

• Two solutions (well, three actually) were available

1. Esri Survey1232. Esri’s Collector App3. Clipboards, paper, spreadsheets, and cellphone camera

The Red River Basin

• 45,000 Square Miles

• Flows north to Lake Winnipeg

• Average slope of 1-2 feet per mile

• The confluence of the Wild Rice River & the Red River is just south of Fargo Moorhead

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Fargo – Moorhead Top 10 Floods

Flood of 2009

Temporaryprotectionmeasuresthat werein place for the 2nd crest

Six FEMA Accredited LOMR Areas in Moorhead

Four are complete

Two are pending

As a result;356 properties165 structures

DO NOT require mandatory flood insurance for federally insured mortgages

$330,000 in annual flood insurance premiums remain in the local economy

$137,281,014

70 City of Moorhead Engineering flood mitigation projects have been completed since the flood of 2009

This includes $57,000,000 for property acquisition, demolition, and remediation (i.e. Buyouts)

Reduction in Sandbags(42.5 foot crest)

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Engineering DeptLevee or Floodwall

Steve Randy

Public Works DeptClosure Structure

Tom Jay

Storm Water DivInterior Drainage

Three City Departments will utilize themobile application:

AquafenceRemovable Closure

Other Features

Earthen LeveeConcrete FloodwallSheetpile Floodwall

Pump Station (PTO)Pump Station (Electric)

Gate WellOutfall

The mobile application is great. We can identify and record the problems, and many things we can fix right there on the spot during the inspection.(Storm Water Supervisor)

Inspecting and maintaining the City’s investment of more than $100M in flood mitigation improvements is critical to ensuring performance during a flood event. With limited resources, we needed a system that was not a staff or paper burden. This new application enhances efficiency and provides confidence in our ability to fight future floods.(Bob Zimmerman, City Engineer PHD)

Engineering DepartmentLevee / floodwall Inspection- spatial data- 1 to one relationship- 1 and done data

Wastewater DepartmentPumps/ Gatewells and Outfalls- Stationary data- Inspection checklist- 1 to many sub components- Continuous Life Cycle

Public Works DepartmentTemp closures / general conditions- spatial data- 1 to one relationship- 1 and done data

Collection Requirements

Seemed like a slick form based collection method.I was unsure of the GIS component and how to visualize the data.

Templates were easy, fast to get something up and running.Really clean, could use radio buttons or pick lists.

Investigated the feature service and there was little to no Domain structure.Summary was good in the dashboard, but the schema limits the ability to query and do reports.

Survey123 Application

RESULTING FEATURE DATASET

Contains no real structure, criteria in the initial setup is not maintained as a Schema

History using this for Levee inspection for the past 3 years in Minot and Moorhead.

Schema was well established.(COE SWIF Reports)

Related Tables many to works nice for inspection

Records and photo attachments unlimited

Limited to 3 levels of relationships

Longer Life Cycle

DEMO AGOL Map

Collector Application

LEVEE INSPECTIONS

LEVEE INSPECTIONS

INFRASTRUCTURE INSPECTION

INFRASTRUCTURE INSPECTION

Survey123Quick simple collectionShort timelineNo structure for reporting outside the existing interfaceDoes not support Domain SubtypesDoes not look like GIS

CollectorKnown commodityMore time needed to create the databaseCan be intimidating for new usersLonger Life Cycle

Revisit the discussion after fall inspection

Compare and Contrast

�Provides the ability to quickly create list of defiencies so they can be ranked and repaired by each City group.

�Reporting by each LOMR Group

�USACE System Wide Improvement Framework Standard Reporting

�MS4 Reporting (TBA)

Reports and Template Standards

�Visualize progress in addressing defiencies

�Reporting by each Department

�Establish timelines (short term)

�Capital Improvement Plan (long term)

High Level Dashboard

Choosing the Right Solution for FloodInfrastructure Inspection in the field

Dave KirkpatrickHouston Engineering Inc

dkirkpatrick@houstoneng.com 701-237-5065

Brad Anderson, GISPCity of Moorhead GIS

brad.anderson@ci.moorhead.mn.us 218-299-5125

North Dakota GIS Users ConferenceWednesday, September 20th 2017

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