Latest Contributions by HowardCrothers

@xander Development work is complete, we are doing final testing and working on the updated documentation now.  The update will ship with the November 2022 ArcGIS Solutions release, anticipate week of the November 16th.   ... View more

We are releasing an update to the Lead Service Line Inventory solution in November that will incorporate EPA's suggested schema into the solution.  The schema changes will be minimal.  We are also exploring adding additional reporting capabilities to the solution to make it easier to populate the EPA template directly from ArcGIS as a means to report back your inventory to regulatory agencies. Thanks for providing the comparison matrix.     ... View more

Esri doesn't provide representative real world pictures of the assets, but there is a text description in the data dictionary. ... View more

Bill has a very good point, you might find it a better use of your resources to give those people (for example contractors or engineering consultants)  secure access to the info they need as interactive maps shared through AGOL instead of doing a significant amount of work to create and maintain paper map products that cartographically mitigate the fact that your actual assets are densely packed together. ... View more

@Charles_Darwin  you were given some bad info!  Thousands of wastewater utilities have used the geometric network to represent their sewer systems, now they are implementing the utility network. ... View more

If it is an enterprise geodatabase is the database connection established correctly and the portal account the portal utility network owner? https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/tool-reference/utility-networks/disable-network-topology.htm    Probably best to call support. ... View more

Vish Apte‌ the last published version is attached to this thread.  Going forward we are no longer updating the migration tools with each update to the Water Distribution Utility Network Foundation.  Savvy Data Interoperability extension users or FME users should be able to easily modify the zip file to reflect the input of the most current asset package.   Another option to load data into an asset package for loading into a utility network is the Data Loading Tools.  This is a configuration of the Data Loading Tools for loading a typical water distribution geometric network to a utility network - Water Distribution Utility Network Data Loading | ArcGIS Solutions for Water  This is not the same toolset as the Migration Tools and does not utilize the Data Interoperability Extension or FME. In my opinion, neither the Data Loading Tools nor Migration Tools are "better".  Rather they are different tools you can use to get the job done.  The Migration Tools are really just showing you how to leverage FME or the Data Interoperability Extension to load data to the asset package.  For skilled FME / Data Interop users or data translations that require a substantial geometry manipulation, you may be better using the Migration Tools approach.   The Data Loading Tools may be a better fit for users that don't have experience with FME / Data Interop and their source data doesn't require a lot of geometry manipulation.  It also may be a better fit for users with a target schema that is close to the typical industry representation of a water distribution system (i.e. a geometric network with the Local Government Info Model or Water Editing Tools schema). Hope that helps. Regards, Howard  ... View more

Can you please log a support incident so we can properly identify what is causing the crash? Esri Support | ArcGIS Technical Support  ... View more

This might help - a restaurant survey from Baltimore County, MD. https://survey123.arcgis.com/share/7b83674465974aaeaf6915792ca30ad9?ct=t(Baltimore_County_News_Media_Advisory_2013_29_20…  ... View more

Hi Chris,   We don't anticipate releasing Utility Network Data Loading for Sewer in the short term.  My suggestion is to use the generic Data Loading Tools Data Loading Tools | ArcGIS Solutions with your input sewer data and your desired output asset package and establish the mapping yourself.     Think of Water Utility Network Data Loading Water Distribution Utility Network Data Loading | ArcGIS Solutions for Water  as the Data Loading Tools preconfigured for a common representation of a water distribution system as the source and the most recent water asset package as the target.  The documentation includes some additional useful info when working with water datasets, but will highlight concepts that will help you with sewer or other data sets.   So you would use the same tools - Data Loading - just feed your source and target in and establish your own mappings.  Yes, you would have to do some extra work, but we've heard from other organizations loading sewer data that once they understand how the Data Loading Tools work it is a quick process to set it up for their specific source and target.   Hope that helps.   Regards,   Howard ... View more

That image is the circa ArcGIS 9.x timeframe version of the water/wastewater/stormwater geometric network data model.  That's not the utility network. ... View more

Thanks Andrew, good feedback.  We'll post in the data model thread as well if we do any further updates. ... View more

APR (ArcGIS Pipeline Referencing) defines the network by linear referencing.  The utility network defines the network by connectivity.   Depending on how you want to represent your pipeline you may want to use either one or both together. Best to ask the UPDM question here - https://community.esri.com/docs/DOC-13587-updm-2019-edition  ... View more