Presented during the 2022 North Dakota Geospatial Summit in Bismarck, ND, September 14-15.

1. North Dakota Geospatial Summit
GIS Applications in Right-of-Way:
A Case Study on the FM Area Diversion
Carol Wickenheiser, GISP
September 2022
Presented by: Advanced Engineering and Environmental Services, LLC (AE2S)

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ABOUT AE2S
• Founded in 1991
• Now in 2022, more than 300
engineers, technicians, surveyors,
financial analysts, computer
programmers, and administrative
personnel (offices in ND, SD, MN, WI,
MT, UT, CO)
• AE2S is a specialized civil/
environmental consulting engineering
firm with our primary service being
water meaning water, wastewater, and
stormwater consulting

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OUTLINE
• Introduction
▪ What is the FM Area Diversion Project?
▪ Partners in making this thing happen
• Property Acquisition and Management
• GIS Applications / Demonstrations
▪ Workflow Manager (WMX)
▪ Web Map
▪ GIS Feature Services
▪ Survey 1-2-3

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GIS APPLICATIONS - BEHIND THE SCENES
Multiuser
GDB ArcMap
Doc
ArcGIS Server
Map Service
Web Clients
ArcGIS Desktop
Clients
Map Service
URL

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WHAT IS THE FM AREA DIVERSION PROJECT?
• Stormwater Diversion Channel and Associated Infrastructure
– 30-mile Channel, Diversion Outlet
– Road, Railroad, and River crossings and aqueducts
• Southern Embankment and Associated Infrastructure
– 20-mile Embankment
– Three Gated Control Structures
• Mitigation Features and Associated Infrastructure
– Temporary Staging of Flood Waters to prevent Downstream
Impacts
– Wetlands Mitigation
– Levees and Lift Stations
• In-Town Levees
– Floodwalls/Levees
– Pump Stations/Stormwater Lift Stations

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HOW CAN GIS APPLICATIONS ASSIST IN PROPERTY ACQUISITION?
Open Communication
Between Member
Entity and Consultant
Organize Spatial
Data With Legal
Documentation
Mapping for
Correspondence, Analysis,
and Decision Making

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FM AREA DIVERSION PROJECT:
SPLIT DELIVERY GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE
CCJWRD
Cass County Joint Water
Resource District
PPA
JPA
PPA: Project Partnership Agreement
An agreement between the
government (USACE) and non-federal
partners (MFDA, City of Fargo and
City of Moorhead) which serves as
the official agreement marking the
beginning of the FM Area Diversion.
JPA: Joint Powers Agreement
An agreement between Member
Entities that establishes duties,
responsibilities, and obligations
regarding the FM Area Diversion
Project.

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LANDS PROGRAM ORGANIZATION

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PROPERTY NEEDS
• Over 9,000 Acres for a 30 Mile Storm
Water Diversion Channel, a 20 mile
long Southern Embankment, and
Associated Infrastructure
• Nearly 29,000 Acres of Flowage
Easements
• Rural Structure Mitigation
• Oxbow, Hickson, Bakke
• In-Town properties
• Over 380 Environmental Monitoring
Easements

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INDICATIVE DESIGN
• Engineering Consulting Firms
• Preliminary Channel
• Transportation Improvements
• USACE
• Southern Embankment
• Environmental monitoring and
mitigation
• Drayton Dam
• Drain 27 Wetlands
• Bio/Geo Easement
• Hydraulic Modeling
• CLOMR
• Flowage Easement Zones

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PROPERTY NEEDS
• Property Needs from Indicative Design
by Engineering Firms, USACE
▪ Varying formats and coordinate systems
▪ GIS (feature class, shapefile), .dwg, .dgn
files
• Types of Property Needs
▪ Fee Title – purchase/deed
▪ Temporary Construction Easements
(Easement that expires)
▪ Memorandum of Understanding –
Government entity, utility
• Permanent Easement
• Flowage Easement
▪ Right to Store Water
• Structure Buyout or Mitigation
▪ Purchase Structure and relocate or
demolish
▪ Mitigate structure
o Wet-proof
o Construct levee

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PROPERTY MANAGEMENT
GIS Analysis/Mapping used for
Property Management:
· Structure demolition
· Owned structure management
· Lease-backs/rentals
· Land trades/disposition

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PROGRESS TRACKING AND MANAGEMENT
GIS Data Exports
• Used in Progress Reporting
• Automated Export process
• Manual fact check monthly
GIS Data Exports
• Used in Schedule Review
• Automated Export process
• Weekly Acquisition
Progress meetings

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GIS APPLICATIONS
Use GIS Applications
for Collaboration for
ROW Projects
GIS Applications
Promote Dynamic
Workflows
Reduce Data Silos
and Duplicate
Efforts

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WORKFLOW APPLICATION (WMX)
Open Communication
Through Ease of
Document Lookup
Visualize Process
Efficiency Saves Money

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PROGRESS TRACKING AND MANAGEMENT WITH WMX
ROE
Survey
Appraisal
Negotiation
Acquisition

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PROGRESS TRACKING AND MANAGEMENT WITH WMX
Customizable
Workflows for
Varying Processes
• Project Footprint
• Flowage Easement
• Environmental Monitoring
Easement

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PROGRESS TRACKING AND MANAGEMENT WITH WMX
Easily Update Tracking
Dates For Schedule
Automate Process
Notifications

19. WMX WITH OBLIQUE VIDEO
Georeferenced
Oblique View
Video
• Understanding of Areas
& Corridors
• Unique Point of View for
Detailed Design Work
• Thorough, Easily
Managed
Documentation of
Pre-Construction Field
Conditions

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WORKFLOW APPLICATION (WMX) DEMO
https://acquisition.cityoffargo.com/fmdiversion/ https://acquisition.cityoffargo.com/USACEMonitoring/

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WMX Demo

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WEB MAP APPLICATION
GIS Application: Web Map
· Office or Field (mobile)
· Visualize project elements, ROW
needs, parcel data
· Find specific owners/properties

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WEB MAP APPLICATION DEMONSTRATION
Internal Use, Credentials Required:
https://ae2s.maps.arcgis.com/apps/web
appviewer/index.html?id=ab50e3b6f91f
46c7bf80edce6cfc571c
P3 Developer, Credentials Required:
https://ae2s.maps.arcgis.com/apps/weba
ppviewer/index.html?id=56d58043a80d44
43a7ec318b17a7be75
Public Use, No Credentials Required:
https://ae2s.maps.arcgis.com/apps/weba
ppviewer/index.html?id=540df59eb67843
9686656ec99f15a6bb

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Web Map Application

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ARCGIS SERVER
Server housed with and
owned by City of Fargo
• ESRI Licensing
• Server Maintenance
• SQL Server Data
• Project Partners
Remote Login Capability
• Used for back-end WMX
maintenance
• Store live project data
• Serve other project partners using
ESRI Feature Services

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WMX Files

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SURVEY 1-2-3
• Complete, form-centric solution
for creating, sharing and
analyzing surveys
• Design surveys with predefined
logic, easy to fill answers, and
embed multiple file types
• Available for collection on
mobile devices and desktop
• Analysis responses on
Survey123 website and
embedded in other ESRI
applications
• Replacement for the clipboard

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SURVEY 1-2-3: HOW DOES IT WORK?
Form Creation
Working with staff to create
custom form
Created from excel
Have questions pre-populated
Conditional statements
Multiple question types
Include multimedia
Field Collection
Mobile friendly
Multiple users per survey
Talk to text
Able to resubmit entries
Available for offline use
Reporting
Customized reporting built off
Word
Reports can be exported to PDF
or Word
Summarized reports
Analyze
Keep track of inspection entries
RPR staff accountability
QA/QC of missing entries

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SURVEY123 – OPTIMIZED FIELD-TO-OFFICE WORKFLOW
REPEATABLE
TEMPLATES
IMPROVED
REPORTING
INTEGRATES W/
OTHER ESRI APPS
REAL-TIME
ANALYSIS
OPTIMIZED
WORKFLOW
ENDLESS
CONFIGURATIONS

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TAKE AWAYS
Use GIS Applications
for Collaboration for
ROW Projects
GIS Applications
Promote Dynamic
Workflows
Reduce Data Silos
and Duplicate
Efforts

31. DISCUSSION
& QUESTIONS

32. ND Geospatial Summit
Thank you!
Carol Wickenheiser, GISP
September 2022
Presented by: Advanced Engineering and Environmental Services, LLC (AE2S)