Week two for of my Delaware Public Utilities internship has continued to build upon the previous weeks. This week Janelle assigned me to continue the process of cataloging  the old blue prints from past city projects. These blueprints include plans for developing cul-de-sacs and new business in Delaware county.  These blue print maps are currently just sitting in the conference room of the public utilities building and I have been tasked with determining if they have been inputed into the city’s database yet. Last week I accomplished cataloging all of the maps and this week started cross referencing the maps I cataloged with the ones that already exist in the system. This has been quite challenging. In order to do this I needed to reference my catalog list with the city’s files as well as finding the location of the area on google maps in order to check it in the city’s online system.This project so far has served as great exposure to this platform and I believe it will prove useful becoming familiar with it. Overall this project has taken some time but I anticipate it to take at least a few more days to complete. However, I feel confident in the work I am doing and believe it is great experience.

Friday has been my favorite day with the utilities department yet. Janelle and I went out into the field and used the GPS to mark utilities that were not yet on the map. We then went to a new site which is currently being developed and again used to the GPS to mark those utilities as well. We will then go back into the city maps and trace over our markers. I found using the GPS interesting and another great skill! Bonus, while Janelle and I were mapping we discovered a hydrant leak and reported it.