The following Case Studies highlight several projects performed by Wachs Utility Services.

Compiling Comprehensive Valve and Hydrant Data in an ESRI Enterprise Geodatabase
Since 1992, Charlotte –Mecklenburg Utilities (CMU) has used ESRI’s ArcInfo and ArcView technology on a limited basis to support basic map production and analysis functions. Unfortunately, CMU had not yet tapped into the full potential of ESRI’s GIS tools for a variety of reasons...

10,000 Water Valves To Be Tested
Wilmington hires Chicago-based Company to conduct $1.3 million project
A Chicago-based company contracted by the city of Wilmington began work Tuesday on a $1.3 million project to test, catalog and map about 10,000 water valves throughout the city’s underground piping system...

Valves—The Case for Outsourcing Valve Maintenance
Fifty years ago valve maintenance and exercising was not important. Water systems were young, clean and reliable. Today this has all changed. Water systems are aging, corroding; failing and utilities have to deal with...