“GIS Data Cooperatives & Data Sharing”The Hackensack Meadowlands District Model
New Jersey Geo-Spatial ForumMarch 26, 2010
Presented by:Dom Elefante
The New Jersey Meadowlands CommissionMeadowlands Environmental Research Institute
AGENDA
Overview of the Hackensack Meadowlands District
Municipal GIS Outreach
ERIS – Emergency Response System
Flooding – Warning System (Inundation Maps)
Permit Tracking – Efficient Government (Cashiering)
Municipal Asset Collection – Work flow/ Inventory (Video & Vac Truck)
Summary
Overview of the District
New Jersey Meadowlands Commission Regional planning agency for portions of
14 municipalities Carlstadt, East Rutherford, Little Ferry,
Lyndhurst, Moonachie, North Arlington, Ridgefield, Rutherford, South Hackensack, Teterboro, Jersey City, Kearny, North Bergen and Secaucus Jurisdiction name: Hackensack
Meadowlands District (“District”) 30.4 square miles 113-square-mile watershed
Land uses 39% wetlands/water 21% transportation 20% industrial/commercial 10% altered lands 10% other
Overview of the District
We exist to: Protect the delicate balance of nature Provide for orderly development Provide facilities for the disposal of solid
waste
Local Governments Share Information at the Regional Level
As a regional planning agency, we develop systems that would otherwise be unaffordable to individual municipalities
High capital cost Operational costs Highly specialized staff
Towns benefit by having access to new and efficient information technology to serve their residents, and the planning agency benefits by collecting valuable planning data and organizing information to State standards so that everyone uses the same up-to-date information.
Types of Information Services Shared
Online applications that deliver information in the form of existing municipal infrastructure, variance notifications, and zoning and land use inventories.
Emergency response systems that show buildings containing hazardous materials, inform of critical tide gate functioning and generate flood warnings.
Online flooding portal where both user & emergency personnel can access critical flood data, including flooding scenarios in the event of surge-induced floods.
On-line permit tracking & development review/approval that allows developers to access pending transactions.
Municipal asset collection and CO-OP shared services, involving the use of the video truck, GPS & the vacuum truck.
Municipal Infrastructure
Online Municipal Interactive Mapping
GIS Outreach
How Data is Shared
GIS(Oracle) MERI GIS Dept
Land Use ManagementStormwater
Transportation
TownsEmergency Responders,
Construction, Tax Assessor, DPW, etc.
cadastral
*parcel
owner assess
building
RTK tenant
SDE
*One uniform parcel data
ArcGISServer
Parcel Schema/ Relationships
Emergency Response Information SystemFirefighters, Police, Emergency Managers
Emergency Schema/Building Relationship
Facility_ID derived from NJDEP RTK, then related to MERI buildingfeature class
Flooding90% of the District is less than 2 feet from the high water mark
Flooding
County OEMs receive static inundation (flooding) maps that will notify emergency officials of potential storm and its effects
Web (Flooding) portal will serve as a central resource for constituent towns to view the same data from the maps, including other resources available from this portal
Active warning module where officials can access flood data –warn constituent municipalities of impending surge
Pre-canned queries will be available in future version (i.e. Address search, flood incidents, etc.)
Permit Tracking~ 800 permits are reviewed/
processed within the District annually
Permit Tracking (CityView)
Land Use Management (LUM) Enforcement of the N.J. Meadowlands Commission zoning and subdivision regulations, as well as the Uniform Construction Code Review (approval/denial) of development permit applications Property and pertinent application information tracked in CityView,a fully functional database that relates any type of information to property-based information. Examples of the information stored in CityView include: Property Information - Block, Lot, Address, Zoning, Land Use, Owner, Tenants, Property Photos; Application Details - Application Number, Application Type, Status, Assigned Engineer/Planner, Applicant Contact Information, Fees and Payments; Application Activity -Reviews, Meetings, Letters/Permits Sent, Letters/Correspondence Received, Telephone Conversations, Inspections GIS Interface (connect to parcel data from SDE)
Permit Tracking (CityView)
Municipal Asset Collection
NJMC COOP & Shared Services
Municipal Asset Collection (WinCAN) Inventory of all utilities within the HMD Provide COOP services to member towns (Video of lines, vacuum, etc.)Web application for services & jobs to be completed Same day sewer/ storm pipeline video inspections Direct connection to GIS Toggle data between inspections, reports & GIS Towns’ assets: Carlstadt - Carlstadt – Sanitary/Stormwater Manholes (100%), Catchbasins (10%), Sanitary Lines (50%), Outfalls (100%), Fire Hydrants (100%) ; East Rutherford - Sanitary/Stormwater Manholes (100%), Catchbasins (100%), Sanitary Lines (100%), Fire Hydrants (100%) ; Kearny - Sanitary/Stormwater Manholes (100%), Catchbasins (100%), Sanitary Lines (50%), Stormwater Lines (25%), Fire Hydrants (100%) ;Little Ferry - Sanitary/Stormwater Manholes (100%), Outfalls (100%), Fire Hydrants (100%) ; Lyndhurst - Sanitary/Stormwater Manholes (100%), Catchbasins (100%), Fire Hydrants (100%) ; Moonachie - Sanitary/Stormwater Manholes (100%), Fire Hydrants (100%) ; North Arlington -Sanitary/Stormwater Manholes (100%), Fire Hydrants (100%) ; North Bergen - Sanitary/Stormwater Manholes (100%), Catchbasins (100%), Sanitary Lines (100%), Stormwater Lines (100%), Outfalls (100%), Fire Hydrants (100%) ; Ridgefield - Sanitary/Stormwater Manholes (100%), Catchbasins (100%), Sanitary Lines (100%), Stormwater Lines (100%), Fire Hydrants (100%) ; Rutherford - Sanitary/Stormwater Manholes (100%), Sanitary Lines (100%), Fire Hydrants (100%) ; Secaucus - Sanitary/Stormwater Manholes (100%), Catchbasins (10%), Sanitary Lines (100%), Fire Hydrants (100%) ; South Hackensack - Sanitary/Stormwater Manholes (100%), Catchbasins (100%), Sanitary Lines (100%), Stormwater Lines (100%), Outfalls (10%), Fire Hydrants (100%) ; Teterboro - Sanitary/Stormwater Manholes (100%), Catchbasins (100%), Sanitary Lines (100%), Stormwater Lines (100%), Fire Hydrants (100%)
Phone/On-line Equipment Request and Inspection Tracking Jet & Vacuum “clean-up” for pipelines and basins Complete inspection reports Access to on-line Historical Inspection Database, Maps, Photos and Reports 24/7 Emergency services GPS Utility Mapping & GIS Integration
Camera Truck“capable of taking video footage of sewer/storm lines for municipalities”
Utility/ Municipal Assets & Mapping (WinCAN)
Jet-Vac Truck“capable of removing debris that may be clogging sewer lines or storm drains”
Utility/ Municipal Assets & Mapping (WinCAN)
In Summary Municipalities have access to information on more than 100,000 properties
Town-specific property information is routinely updated from data provided by the County Board of Taxation
Systems provide variance notifications and zoning, land use and infrastructure tracking
Municipalities have received workstations and laptops to access this information, and more than 45 Municipal officials are trained each year in the use of these applications
Officials can also borrow high-accuracy GPS equipment and be trained for asset collection of utilities (manholes, fire hydrants, utility poles, signs, catch basins, stormwater lines, outfalls), which are then included in their interactive maps
Emergency officials have access 24/7 to water levels and water quality as well as real-time tide gate functioning reports, and they receive warnings and maps showing areas and properties affected by floods
Summary (Outlook) Inventory of all utilities within the HMD (Assist towns in completion)
Integrate new version of video inspection software (IT) – so towns can manage & more effectively identify areas of concern
Flood portal & mapping application to provide easy-to-use tools to assess & quantify damages
Continued updates of seamless parcel data so everyone in the State, County & Municipal levels are using the same data
Integrate cashiering for an effective management of permits
Use new technology/ data to accurately model flood scenarios (e.g., flooding maps)
Municipalhttp://maps.njmeadowlands.gov/municipal/
Emergency Managementhttp://maps.njmeadowlands.gov/ERIS/
Floodinghttp://maps.njmeadowlands.gov/flooding/
Thank You
Dom ElefanteGIS Program [email protected](201) 460-4669
http://meri.njmeadowlands.gov
http://meri.njmeadowlands.gov/GIS/maps.php
