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New Digital Resources for Water Utilities
The Water team has published two new eBooks that are now available for download. Asset Intelligence for Water Utilities See how geospatial intelligence transforms water asset management, enabling smarter investment, lower risk, and more resilient infrastructure. A Geospatial Approach to Facility and Vertical Asset…
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Elevation data in the sewer UN
@MikeMillerGIS In the webinar Migrating Data Like a Wizard you 'joke..' that everyone (myself included) think that migrating a sewer system to the UN is the easiest, when if fact it is harder if you are building a digital twin and incorporating elevation. * Can you elaborate on that statement? Is it harder because…
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NASSCO standard in the Utility Network
What are the pros/cons of adding NASSCO fields in the UN? As we discuss our move to the UN for sewer and storm, some in my organization have advocated for the NASSCO fields to be added. We currently collect this information in CCTV (pipes) and Survey123 (manholes). From a GIS map, a user can access this data/reports/etc…
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Water distribution, Sewer and Stormwater Data Management upgrading from an older version to the latest version
Hello everyone, I would be interested to hear how others have approached upgrading Esri’s Water Distribution, Sewer and Stormwater Data Management solutions from the older version to the latest version? We are carrying out an upgrade for a water utility here in Finland in the coming weeks. At the same time, we are taking…
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Migrating from ArcGIS GeoEvent Server to ArcGIS Velocity
This conversation has been popping up increasingly as more water utilities look to incorporate real time data. How can an organization migrate from ArcGIS GeoEvent Server to ArcGIS Velocity? Check out this Esri blog explaining how to do just that: How do I Migrate from ArcGIS GeoEvent Server to ArcGIS Velocity?
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IMGIS 2026 Water Industry Flier
Please review these highlighted sessions, events, and activities at IMGIS 2026! Access the digital custom Water agenda here: https://event.esri.com/widget/esri/26imgis/1788202496366001g5SA IMGIS 2026 Water Flier_Rev.pdf
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Creating Related Tables
I am using the ESRI water distribution system solution, and I want to create another related table similar to the hydrant flushing table, but for blow off flushings. Does anyone know if this something that is possible within the pre-made solution?
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Utility Network Sewer Main Lines: Labeling Issue
Hello, I have created a custom Label Expression for our wastewater main lines, lateral lines, and manhole assets. The custom labeling is requested from our Sewer Collections crew and this is what they want to see in their web maps for Experience Builder and Field Map: When publishing from ArcGIS Pro to our portal, and…
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Tracking multiple repairs with cost.
Hello all, I'm not sure if this is the correct community to ask this question in but here I go. I am currently mapping the irrigation system for my company and have been trying to find a way to input multiple repairs and their cost so I can go back and do an analysis of cost/ how many repairs/ what is being replaced. I…
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From Theory to the Street: Implementation of a Digital Twin and Master Map for Hydraulic Operation.
I want to share with you part of the experience and the technical architecture behind the Master Map and the Digital Twin of Hydraulic Infrastructure that we have implemented nationwide in our country, Panama. Many times we see models or web viewers that remain on paper or fail in the field due to latency issues or broken…
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Webinar Resources: Using ArcGIS to Tackle Your Non-Revenue Water (NRW) Challenges
In this post, you will find resources from the Using ArcGIS to Tackle Your Non-Revenue Water (NRW) Challenges webinar. The webinar recording is available here. The webinar slides and Q&A are available at the bottom of this post. Check out our blog, Making Every Drop Count with Geospatial Solutions for Water Loss, to learn…
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InfoWater Pro Input Error 213
Hi there, I was running simulations in ArcGIS InfoWater Pro without errors, before I suddenly started getting this: Input Error 213: illegal option value in [Times] section: DURATION 24.000000 Hours Input Error 213: illegal option value in [Times] section: HYDRAULIC TIMESTEP 0.250000 Hours ETC. If I open Simulation Time…
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Sewer Pipe Inspection Reports -> Condition Layer
Hi all. I want to create an overall pipe condition layer that takes into account a condition score from a sewer pipe inspection report as well as pipe age. Does anyone have any examples of this or resources you used to accomplish this? Thank you in advance.
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2025 IMGIS Water Industry Flier
The IMGIS Conference brings together GIS professionals specializing in the management of infrastructure from across several interconnected industries – AEC, Electric, Gas, Telecommunications and Water To help you find your way to the Water Industry sessions and events we created this focused agenda. View the full…
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Migrating Arc Hydro data to Stormwater Utilities Network
I attended the Sep. 4 Utility Network Workgroup meeting and am looking forward to the October 9 one. Currently, we have our Stormwater data in Arc Hydro. Looking forward to migrating to the Stormwater Utility Network Foundation solution (no customizing). We have created a GDB in UN but have some concerns on the data…
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Sample Data Stormwater Data Management Solution
Hello, We are migrating some stormwater data into the Stormwater Data Management Solution. I have questions about how to use all the various feature classes and would love to see some sample data. For example, say there is a trash insert inside of a catch basin. Are you supposed to put the BMP poly around the entire thing,…
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Sewer network package
I have an asset package, Is it possible to create subnetwork controllers to perform up/down traces in asset packages? I have created some subnetwork controllers, but only the feature network controller (Directional MH) is selected as the subnetwork. Any suggestions.
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Stormwater Data Management vs Stormwater Utility Network
Looking for discussion around two stormwater models from Esri's solutions. My organization is looking to redesign our stormwater database to conform to esri standards. My boss is intrigued by Esri's Stormwater Data Management solution due to the other esri solutions that work well with that schema design (Green…
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When is the next scheduled Utility Network Working Group Meeting?
When is the next scheduled Utility Network Working Group Meeting?
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Lead Service Line Inventory solution
Hello, We have deployed the Lead Service Line Inventory solution. We have identified all of our unknown pipe types. We only need to sample (dig) 20%. The crew will use the field map app to do the digging. We are trying to find a way to add alternate dig locations into the field map to be able to select an alternate dig…
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Why you should attend IMGIS International 2025 – key benefits & highlights
Hello Water Utility & Infrastructure Professionals, The International Infrastructure Management & GIS Conference (IMGIS) is back on April 9–11, 2025, and this is the must-attend event for professionals working in utilities, water distribution, energy, district heating, gas networks, telecommunications, transportation,…
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Fire Hydrant Inspections Solution for Enterprise
We recently moved from using AGOL to an Enterprise system. I am trying to deploy the Fire Hydrant Inspections Esri solution and it keeps getting stuck at 29% then failing with the following message, "Fire Hydrant Inspections failed to deploy." I reached out to my server management company first and they think its because I…
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Utility Network Topology Errors from Subnetwork tier creation
Background: ArcGIS Enterprise 11.1, ArcGIS Pro 3.1.7, Utility Network version 6, current UN wastewater schema based on Sewer Utility Network Foundation V1.1. We've been in production for about 18 months. Recently, I've been building out subnetwork tier groups and tiers to model out new subnetworks. We are installing…
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How do I apply layer style with updated Lead Service Line Solution?
Looks like the Lead Service Line Solution was updated in the past two days. Now I have to learn how to use it all over again with almost no documentation. Not a GIS wizard and google hasn't been much help. Can someone please tell me how to apply a style to a layer. Specifically, I have to apply the…
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Calculate flow accumulation from trace utility network
Hi everyone! I have a customer who needs to calculate the flow accumulation from each service connection along the sewer line up to a selected manhole. For example, when I click on the selected manhole, the system should summarize all upstream flow from connected service points at that location. Is there a way to calculate…
