Posts Tagged ‘special district’

Healthier Permitting Process for Idaho’s Central District Health Department

Four-county health department enlists ECM to improve information accessibility and save hundreds of hours in staff time

January 6th, 2011

CDHDManaging past and current septic permit applications for areas totaling just over 425,000 residents without an enterprise content management (ECM) solution meant a lot of paper trails and time-consuming manual processes for Idaho’s Central District Health Department (CDHD). Full story »

Building Out the IT Infrastructure with ECM

CCCSD leverages Laserfiche to improve information access and ensure employee efficiency

November 11th, 2009 by Meghann Wooster Meghann Wooster is a Laserfiche Luminary

cccsdThere’s little in life that’s more elemental than water. And yet, in most developed countries, it’s easy to take access to safe water and sanitation for granted.

Prior to the creation of the Central Contra Costa Sanitary District (CCCSD) in 1946, however, Contra Costa County—located east of San Francisco, CA—was in crisis. A post-war building boom had brought an influx of new residents, most of them relying on septic systems that didn’t take well to the area’s heavy adobe clay soil. With septic tanks overflowing and waterborne diseases such as typhoid becoming a potential threat, health authorities considered the polluted conditions in the county to be among the worst in California.

As a result, the CCCSD was formed as a special district, a sewer system and treatment plants were put in place, and the public received much-needed access to safe water and sanitation.
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