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Leveraging Your GIS, Part 2: Optimize Capital Planning and Savings

Leveraging a geographic information system (GIS) to reduce operations and maintenance costs was addressed in Part 1 of this column in the October 2010 issue of the Journal AWWA. This month's column focuses on how to use a GIS to achieve capital savings through optimized decision processes. The article discusses how using a geographic information system (GIS) with full functionality will result in an overall reduction in capital project costs and operations and maintenance costs, and will become the foundation of a lower‐cost enterprise asset management (EAM) system.