Dam Safety is now available as a released, fully-supported solution.
For more information about deploying this solution for use in your organization, see: http://solutions.arcgis.com/state-government/help/dam-safety/
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The Government Solutions team has been working with dam inspection teams at the Departments of Natural Resources in Ohio, Maryland, and Kentucky to build a solution around dam safety. One key component of this new Dam Safety solution is a configuration of Survey123 for ArcGIS. It's intended to provide dam inspectors with a field survey to inspect and monitor the condition of dams within their state. Collecting dam safety information also enables staff to review and monitor condition and take the appropriate remediation action.
Please give this survey a try and provide us feedback on how closely this aligns with your existing dam inspection field workflows. If you run into any issues or have any questions, please post them below.
The Dam Inspection Survey makes use of the Inbox functionality in Survey123 for ArcGIS, and will work connected or disconnected. Once you've published the survey using Survey123 Connect, append your dam information (including the locations of your dams) to the resulting layer. This will allow your field workers to access basic information about your dams while in the field using the Survey123 Field App. The survey results can then be printed using Survey123.arcgis.com.
If you already have Survey123 Connect installed, verify that you are working on the latest version and update if necessary.
This will create a folder in your organization/portal with the same name as your survey. In that folder will be a Survey123 item, and a feature layer that will hold the survey responses. When the survey creation process is done, Survey123 Connect will display a sample form, and it will open the XLSX form containing the structure of your survey. Editing this form (not the original file included with these instructions) will edit the structure of your survey.
Optionally, explore the other Settings options to choose a thumbnail, change the form colors, provide a description for the survey item, specify the display format of coordinates, etc.
If this layer/feature class contains selected features only the selected features will be copied. Alternatively, you can specify an optional SQL Expression to copy only the features that meet the specifications of the query.
I suggest mapping, at minimum, the dam name and dam id fields, but you can use this process to map any attributes from your dam information layer/feature class that you’d like to have pre-populated in your survey. You can use the XSLX file in Survey123 Connect to see which field names correspond to which survey questions.
If you already have the Survey123 Field App installed, verify that you are working on the latest version and update if necessary.
To print a customized report, use the Report (Beta) capabilities to create and upload a custom report template. This capability will only be enabled for the survey owner until at least one custom report template has been uploaded. Once a template has been uploaded this capability will be available to all accounts that have Viewer level permissions to this survey.
Updated 3/20/2019
- A fully supported version of Dam Safety is now available from ArcGIS Solutions for State Government
Updated 2/22/2019
- Added a field for the name of the assistant inspector
Updated 1/28/2019
- Added fields for EAP-specific contact information
- Added specific issue lists for EAP and OMI issues. When issues are identified the survey now asks the standard Action question.
- Added questions asking if the EAP and OMI are on file with the inspecting agency.
- Removed question asking the location of the OMI
- Added question for publication & revision dates for OMI
- Added Groin and Toe as location options for all dam issues and components
- Measurement questions that could be answered with multi-dimensional responses (eg size of seepage area) are now open text rather than decimal fields.
- Fixed logical issue when providing details about other earthen issues with both auxiliary and principal spillways.
- Added Unknown Operability to the list of potential issues with the Lake Drain.
Dam Safety is now available as a released, fully-supported solution.
For more information about deploying this solution for use in your organization, see: http://solutions.arcgis.com/state-government/help/dam-safety/