Transition Your Assets from Paper to Digital: One Step at a Time with GIS

Fresh off the press in NJWEA’s Effluents Magazine’s most recent issue (Vol. 49 Issue No. 1 2016), the article, Manage Your Assets from Paper to Digital: One Step at a Time by our resident GIS specialist Suzanne M. Zitzman, GISP, targets how Middletown Sewerage Authority (TOMSA) solved the age-old problem of asset management. TOMSA is not ... Read More

Municipalities Unite at the 2015 NJSLOM Conference & NJSME Awards

In New Jersey, the largest municipal event by far is heralded in by the NJ State League of Municipalities’ (NJSLOM) Annual Conference held within the casinos of Atlantic City, NJ. This 3-day long event is filled with handshaking, info-booths, making friends, enjoying the festivities, developing business contacts and a chance to compare notes with any one of the 565 municipalities ... Read More

GIS: Managing Your Assets in Today’s Mobile Environment

It was only a handful of years ago when infrastructure piping, pumps, signs and electrical systems were managed via cumbersome scaled paper mapping systems. But with today’s digital asset inventory system, that information is available 24/7 right at your fingertips. Paper systems were a good record keeping method in the past but not a convenient ... Read More

The Information Age & Your Community

As giant storms continue to cause widespread destruction, more and more local governments and utility companies are fostering communications with the community at large through the integration of web-based applications (websites, email, texting, social media, apps) and Geographical Information Systems (GIS). As technological service providers, these applications help monitor infrastructure repairs, construction, and progress. This ... Read More