Southtowns Record

TBA01.26.2026packet

Government
Town of West Seneca
Board
Town Board
Meeting
Jan 26, 2026, 6:00 p.m.
Posted by publisher
Jan 23, 2026
Kind
Agenda packet
Topics
Water, sewer and drainage, Budget and taxes, Public safety, Parks and recreation, Zoning and land use, Roads and traffic, Audits and oversight, Housing

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Todd Plank, GISP | GIS Services Lead

Lead & Copper Water System Inventory  Asset Management Condition Assessment
Team Lead
  Evaluation
City of Batavia, NY; City of Oswego, NY; City of  Senior GIS Analyst
Danbury, CT | 2021 - Ongoing  Utilities, Inc. of Pennsylvania | United States | 2020
Implemented Esri’s ArcGIS Online platform solution,  Services included implementing condition assessment
establishing web-map interfaces and mobile applications  and consequence of failure scoring systems for multiple
for inventorying and documenting the client’s water  Utilities Inc water and wastewater systems into Innovyze
system assets as related to the Lead & Copper Rule.  InfoAsset Planner software as part of a risk/criticality
Historic water system documents, tap cards, inspection  assessment. GHD helped Utilities Inc develop an asset
and repair data, and staff knowledge were used to  management framework for their wastewater and water
capture city and privately owned water line materials  assets across five states.
information. GHD continues to provide Administration of
the ArcGIS Online platform, continuing to build out both  Sanitary Sewer Web GIS Development
capabilities and data for the Clients.
  Project Manager
Lead Service Line Inventory  Hamilton Township Municipal Authority | Franklin
  County, Pennsylvania | 2019
GIS Team Lead
City of Batavia, NY; City of Oswego, NY; Town of  The client had no prior existing GIS and wished to
Lewiston, NY; City of Danbury, CT; City of Gahanna,  develop a system to track sanitary sewer assets for
OH; Lehigh County Authority, PA; Washington  reporting and asset management purposes using ESRI’s
Township Municipal Authority, PA; Huntingdon  Local Government Information Model (LGIM). Converted
Borough, PA; Aberdeen, MD | 2021 – Ongoing  CAD files to capture the location of manholes, gravity
  and pressurized sewer. Attribute data was migrated from
Working with numerous clients across five states, GHD  the Client provided spreadsheets to the LGIM. ArcGIS
has effectively created Lead Service Line Inventories by  Online and Collector were used by the client to make
utilizing Esri ArcGIS Online platforms. This enables GHD  field corrections to the manhole locations through the
to develop inventories that meet individual state  use of iPad tablets. ArcGIS Server web-mapping allows
reporting requirements on the client’s GIS platform. GHD  access to the GIS data through a browser interface. The
establishes standardized inventory databases  interface provides geometry and attribute editing,
accessible and updatable by multiple users, including  document uploading and association to features, and
public information gathering, depending on permission  work order creation and management.
levels and accessibility. Web and mobile applications
facilitate the capture of information on both the utility and
  Township-Wide Stormwater Condition
customer sides of the service lines.
  Assessment and GIS Development
GHD developed mobile applications for smart devices,
enabling both internal staff and water service customers  Project Manager
to document service line characteristics, including  Susquehanna Township | Harrisburg, PA | 2018
photographs, into a centralized database for review and  Coordinated a condition assessment of 15,000
inclusion in the master service line inventory. Additional  stormwater assets in a five-week period and
data sources for developing service line inventories  development of storm outfall sewersheds. GHD staff
include historical documents and drawings, service line  utilized ESRI’s Collector for iPad application to inventory
tap/connection cards and permits, inspection and repair  and perform a condition assessment, including photos,
data, staff expertise, and available tax assessment data.  of the assets. ESRI’s ArcGIS Online (AGOL) GIS web
By integrating these various data sources, we can create  mapping platform provided a centralized cloud-based
comprehensive inventories and utilize the data for  database that GHD staff could upload/download and
analytical modeling to predict the probability of materials  synchronize data on a daily basis through a cellular or
at locations with similar characteristics.  wifi connection. The AGOL database was built upon
Furthermore, GHD collaborates with clients to develop  ESRI’s Local Government Information Model (LGIM).
public-facing web maps and information content to  Stormwater inlets, outlets, pipes, detention, manholes,
enhance transparency and keep residents informed  and ditches were collected to help the Township meet
about the status of the Lead Service Line program.  the requirements of their Chesapeake Bay Pollution
On-going support for LSLI GIS development continues  Reduction Plan. After completion of the data collection,
for all clients, building out capabilities and data to meet  storm outfall locations to water bodies were identified
the longer-term requirements of the EPA and States  and storm sewersheds were delineated for each outfall
  using Digital Elevation Model (DEM) data and manual
  interpretation of contours and mapped features.

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