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One possibility that may resolve this is to use a value in the "Search Radius" option in the Spatial Join geoprocessing tool. Note it will likely require several attempts with different search distances to come up with an effective distance for your data. Spatial Join—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop  Chris Donohue, GISP ... View more

Hopefully the SDE experts can weigh in, but until then this might offer a good starting point: Updating and fixing data sources with arcpy.mapping—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop  Chris Donohue, GISP ... View more

I'm not familiar with ArcGIS Pro, but one way to possibly solve this on the ArcGIS Desktop side is to run the Repair Geometry tool: Checking and repairing geometries—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop  Repair Geometry—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop  If the issue is not the dataset itself, but the mxd, one could try the MXD Doctor Utility: Using the MXD Doctor utility—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop  Caveats - Not sure if ArcGIS Pro has a similar set of tools more specific to ArcGIS Pro - Make backups of your data before running the Repair Geometry Tool or the MXD Doctor Utility Chris Donohue, GISP ... View more

Another reason to delete Geoprocessing History is that it can get quite large and unwieldy when doing many runs while exploring different options, to the point where it may no longer truly reflect the data.  For example, one may have a project that requires an iterative approach, like creating a point layer of "features of interest" for a city, where there are many rounds of Appending in points as many initial candidates are considered but then ultimately ending up Deleting many of those points. Each time Append is run the Geoprocessing History automatically gets an additional entry (unless you turn the setting off).  In this case the resulting Metadata can get pretty large and at the same time not very helpful for the a reviewer to read. Chris Donohue, GISP ... View more

If the water main layer is a line feature class and you have access to ArcGIS Desktop with an Advanced License level, one workflow would be to first run Feature Vertices To Points with the Mid Option to establish a point feature class of the midpoints, then run Split Line at Point. Feature Vertices To Points—Data Management toolbox | ArcGIS Desktop  Split Line at Point—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop  Info on splitting line features: Methods for splitting line features—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop  Chris Donohue, GISP ... View more

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To gather the Zonal Statistics on a County-by-County basis one will likely have to employ either Modelbuilder or Python to loop through each county and do a Zonal Statistics run on just that county. For Modelbuilder, the looping would be via an Iterator What is ModelBuilder?—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop  Example of using an iterator in a model—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop  Accessing iterators in ModelBuilder—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop  Note that one can carry over some of the information to be used in the file naming via the use of In-line Variable Substitution.  For example, with this process as each county is run the County name (or other information) could be added as part of the output file name for each result to make each output more easily recognizable. A quick tour of using inline variable substitution—Help | ArcGIS for Desktop  If you are familiar with Python, there are a variety of looping methods. Chris Donohue, GISP ... View more

Dan Patterson and Jayanta Poddar hit the highlights of what can go awry with this sort of process.  Setting up the data is crucial and often requires a different method of file naming and structuring than with most other types of GIS processing.  Oftentimes this will involve unique data and folder set up before running the process to help ensure the processing will work: No spaces or restricted characters in the file names nor the folder names.  So no spaces, no parenthesis.  For example, the input file TIGER County Boundaries (2015) will need the spaces and parenthesis removed. Keep the path to the data short.  While technically one can put the data out several folders in a path, in reality this can cause processes to crash.  Keep filenames very short.  As a general rule, I'd shoot for 8 characters or less.  They can always be renamed later. Avoid using network drives if possible.  Your hard drive is the best way to go if you have access to it and available space. Try putting the data into a simple folder, like C:\Data In regards to the Joined data, save off the Joined data to a new feature class (Data, Export Data) and run the process on that new feature class.  "Disable Background processing" often is the cure when otherwise everything else seems set up OK. Chris Donohue, GISP ... View more

I'd start a new thread, as this one was marked closed as correctly answered, so many viewers are probably not reading it on the assumption that there are no more things to be resolved. This way the issue will get more exposure. Besides posing your current challenge and appending the toolbox to it, I'd link back this thread to the new one so people can see the previous conversation and resolutions. Chris Donohue, GISP ... View more

Well, if you can wait till early next year, the IT folks here say we will be upgraded to 10.5. Maybe someone with ArcGIS Desktop 10.3 or newer here on GeoNet can try opening the toolbox for you and read off the settings. Chris Donohue, GISP ... View more

That depends on whether the code has been left "exposed" or not.  Usually it is hidden (not exposed). To check this, I just downloaded the toolbox you posted originally and when I opened it at least on my end don't see any Models in it to check.  It is possible, however, that this is because I only have ArcGIS Desktop 10.2.1 and I believe this tool came into existence in 10.3.  So, unfortunately, no way for me to check. Just as a double-check, can you confirm that there is a Model within the toolbox?  It's a longshot, but it is possible the model got lost along the way.  If that is the case, maybe there are backups or the model can be re-acquired?  Chris Donohue, GISP ... View more

If you have access to ESRI Customer Support, it may be worth contacting them as this issue may involve a whole variety of complexities. Esri Support Home  Chris Donohue, GISP ... View more

Also, just poking around in Support, I found this known bug, which may be the issue: Bug: Cannot edit a custom tool after creating it  Chris Donohue, GISP ... View more

When right-clicking on the Model, instead of chosing "Open" choose "Edit".  Then you can click on the elements and modify them. If it won't open for Edit, check the permissions on your computer. Chris Donohue, GISP ... View more

There was an interesting thread on this last year.  Check this out: The meaning of Arc  Chris Donohue, GISP ... View more