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| | ESRI News -- ArcNews Fall 2002 Issue -- Severn Trent Water Moves 14,500 Paper Maps to GIS |
 | | In addition, the water assets of one record office needed to be migrated from a legacy database, while sewerage data consisting of more than one million mains was translated from another legacy database. |
 | | STW's director of asset management, John Banyard, comments, "When we first looked at this project, I have to admit that I was concerned by the complexity of what we were attempting to do; after all there are few utilities that cover 8,000 square miles with 32,000 miles of water main and 30,000 miles of sewer. |
 | | For STW, the UADMS project is the final step in a transformation that began in 1974, when the British government formed it by combining 242 separate water and wastewater undertakings, each with its own records system. |
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