WESTON designed a GIS application using ESRI’s MapObjects that allows utility employees to check for possible contamination or hazardous material storage in or near a job site/work area. This application provides the ability to easily request site information about potential contamination or hazardous material storage by entering an address or graphically selecting a site from an on-screen city map. If contamination on a site is confirmed and the type of contamination is known, safety information is provided. Employees can also enter possible contamination encountered in the field into the application for the Hazardous Materials (Hazmat) team to investigate. WESTON developed the main application interface and the Batch Site Loading module that address matches and adds to the GIS the sites on the Washington Department of Ecology hazardous sites lists. The figure below displays the main user interface of the Sites Batch Load application. The lines are the street network, the circles are the 400-foot buffers in which utility workers must observe Hazmat safety precautions, and the points in the circles are the hazardous sites. The Address Reject menu on the left is used to manually process the addresses that the program could not automatically place. |
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Weston Solutions, Inc., 2001
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