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MAPPING/Software helps utility track miles of water pipe

Published Sunday, July 01, 2001

Cincinnati Water Works (CWW) is in high demand. Warren, Butler and Clermont counties have clamored to use the utility's water, which is cleaned using a carbon filtration system. Even Kentucky's Boone County has asked the utility to tunnel under the Ohio River to provide the county's residents with water from CWW. To keep track of its expanding network of pipes, CWW has begun using mapping software. Before using the software, surveyors and designers maintained maps of the utility's pipe network on mylar sheets. Some of the maps were 100 years old and had to be updated manually. That ...

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