Monitoring environmental facilities, and the impacts placed on natural resources
through public and private entities, is a critical function of state government
and an area of high political interest. Individuals and communities depend on
state agencies to ensure that air, water, and land resources are managed and
protected - and offenders identified and punished. To be effective, state officials
need rapid access to environmental data to monitor and take proactive corrective
action when necessary.
For most state governments, however, their
ability to manage this information and provide these services
to constituents and customers is severely hampered by the traditionally
segmented nature of these operations across environmental medias
such as Air, Water and Waste. Instances of one entity affecting
multiple medias usually requires the state to maintain as many
as six data records on one entity in the multiple systems that
permit, monitor, track and bill customers.
This level of duplicity presents massive problems
for the state in maintaining accurate information, monitoring
offenders, and maintaining safe and clean environments. Further,
without a composite view of the entities that have an environmental
impact, state employees are put in the inefficient and ineffective
position of having to search multiple sources and maintain
duplicate data entities that span multiple environmental programs.
MTW
has worked through the environmental
and legal issues with major environmental customers and have
established defined processes and function-rich frameworks
for consolidating operations and data across the organization.
In doing so, our solutions provide staff and constituents rapid
access to data and improve their ability to monitor and account
for environmental concerns. Frameworks we have made available
to transfer for other states include:
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