Case Study
Oxford Water Works & Sewer Board Unlocks the Power of ArcGIS® for Water Utilities
Oxford Water Works & Sewer Board Unlocks the Power of ArcGIS® for Water Utilities Oxford Water Works & Sewer Board is located in Oxford, Alabama – about an hour east of Birmingham, Alabama. Oxford has a population of 22,300 and Oxford Water has about 9,800 water customers in the community. A few years ago, Oxford Water was facing a number of data- related challenges. With no GIS, teams were relying on old CAD maps, hand-drawn valve location drawings, and very few as-built maps. Their field crews were working off of memory and old paper maps that were in poor condition...and the GPS equipment they eventually purchased for locating assets was not providing the accuracy they needed. The equipment was also cumbersome to work with, as it required quite a bit of the data to be hand-t