Name: Taking GIS into the Well: Building a Replicable Condition Assessment Framework with Survey123
Start: 2026-05-21T14:00:00-0700
End: 2026-05-21T14:30:00-0700

Taking GIS into the Well: Building a Replicable Condition Assessment Framework with Survey123

Thursday May 21, 2026 2:00pm - 2:30pm PDT

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When Kitsap County needed to move from reactive maintenance to data-driven capital planning for its wastewater pump stations, the County was seeking not only a data collection process, but a repeatable framework that could be managed by staff and expanded across the entire system.
This presentation details how ArcGIS Survey123, ArcGIS Online, and ArcGIS Pro were used to develop and deploy a comprehensive condition assessment program across four pump stations spanning five decades of infrastructure. The project followed a structured progression: establishing asset management goals through workshops with County staff, building a hierarchical asset inventory from design drawings and institutional knowledge, developing a Survey123 form architecture with related tables for condition scoring and photo documentation, piloting the framework at the first station, refining it based on field experience, then deploying across the remaining three stations with County staff taking increasing ownership.
The Survey123 form design centered on using questions tailored to different asset classes. Questions are framed with discrete text descriptions easy for inspectors to understand. Responses convert from descriptive text to quantitative scores, enabling consistent, repeatable assessments even from different inspectors. The resulting condition scores directly support capital planning and prioritization with traceable justifications explaining values.
The presentation highlights real challenges encountered during implementation: managing limited existing records, balancing survey form flexibility with the specificity inspectors need in the field, reconciling data across multiple survey exports, and calibrating useful life values against industry standards. Attendees will see how the final deliverables, including visualizations and interactive dashboards, directly support renewal and replacement prioritization. Attendees will leave with a replicable framework they can adapt for their own utilities or organizations using standard Esri tools.

Speakers

Max Sugarman

Senior GIS Analyst, Hazen and Sawyer

Max Sugarman is a Senior GIS Analyst at Hazen and Sawyer, a national engineering firm specializing in water and wastewater infrastructure. Based in Seattle, he focuses on helping water and wastewater utilities translate geospatial data into practical tools for asset management, capital... Read More →

Thursday May 21, 2026 2:00pm - 2:30pm PDT
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Asset Management, Survey123

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