Luke Wenschhof, GISPIT/GIS Coordinator

Village of Fairport/Fairport Municipal CommissionOctober 8, 2015

Getting a handle on underground cable

injections with ArcGIS

Fairport Municipal Commission

Fairport Municipal Commission

• 4,916 poles• 3,447 transformers• 597 miles of primary

(331 OH/266 URD)

underground cable failure

The failure rate for polymer insulated power cabling made before 1985 averages 20 failures per 100 miles of cable per year and affects millions of Americans through

unscheduled outages every year.© 2010, UtilX Corporation

water treeing

Water treeing is the primary cause of failures in polymer insulated power cable.

© 2010, UtilX Corporation

underground cable treatment

• Dialectric enhancement fluid is injected into the conductor strands

• This fluid repairs the damage caused by existing water trees and slows the growth of future water trees

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leveraging ArcMap hyperlinking

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issues along the way

• interpreting fifteen years of records• building minimal user input into the tool• tool is not “dynamic” (must manually

add Job ID’s, years, and loops)• eliminate the duplicate “selection” layer• difficulty migrating from VBA to .Net and

.Net Add-ins (limited programming skills)

questions or comments?

Luke Wenschhof, GISPlukewenschhof@gmail.com