During 2005 and 2006, the NJDEP Well Permits program continued its ongoing efforts to perform manual legacy data conversion activities for existing well permits (650,000) and well records (400,000) to NJEMS. In conjunction with the data conversion effort, well permit and record documents are scanned, indexed, and loaded into an electronic document management system, which interfaces with NJEMS. This document management activity expands the universe of well information by providing desktop access to original documents which contain graphics and logs that are not data managed. Well Permits has requested and is participating in several enhancements to its manual data entry Well Wizards in NJEMS to improve processing performance and efficiency in NJEMS.

NJDEP continues its ongoing efforts to improve document management and imaging systems, currently in HighView, and is developing an NJEMS interface to integrate HighView with NJEMS to make the images readily available to the NJDEP users and to the public, as appropriate. This effort includes consideration, planning, and implementation of upgrades to database, hardware and software, as well as the development of an NJDEP “roadmap” for document imaging, enhancements and new applications.

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