getting a handle on underground cable injections …...getting a handle on underground cable...
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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
feed tank vacuum tank
using this tool
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using this tool
using this tool
using this tool
using this tool
using this tool
using this tool
leveraging ArcMap hyperlinking
leveraging ArcMap hyperlinking
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, [email protected]