Hanover County Communications System Project

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Hanover County Communications System Project
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Hanover County Communications System and 911
Center Project

• Introductions
• Meeting format
• Presentation objectives
• Overview of the project
• Design of the system
• Proposed tower locations
• Project schedule
• Questions
• Individual site reviews
• Collect comments recap

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Hanover County Communications System and 911
Center Project

• Approved 2005 Bond Referendum Project
• Construction of a new 911 Center
• Located on the south side of the Administration
  Building
• New Communications System
• Replaces an aging and outdated communications
  system (1991)
• Enhances radio system coverage (towers from 4 to
  15)
• Enhances our ability to communicate with other
  localities and agencies
• Enhances system security and system reliability

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Hanover County Communications System Project

• Coverage Objectives
• Provide public safety personnel with a
  communications system that provides the required
  level of coverage needed to communicate within
  schools, commercial grade buildings and
  residential structures
• Construct towers in specified locations and at
  specified heights to provide 95 in-building
  on-the-hip portable radio coverage

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Hanover County Communications System Project

• Communications System Design
• Through the use of a Request for Proposal
  procurement process, Motorola was selected to
  provide
• A 12-channel System to be shared by all public
  safety and public service departments and other
  County agencies, including schools, school buses,
  Ashland Town Police, and Randolph Macon College
• 15-tower and transmitter sites to meet the wide
  area coverage requirements
• 3 current County radio towers
• 3 commercial towers
• 9 new towers
• A public safety grade system which incorporate
  700/800 MHz spectrum and digital technology
• A digital point-to-point loop microwave subsystem
  to link sites together

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Hanover County Communications System Project

• Tower Site Selection Criteria
• Located towers in places that will work with
  other towers to create a system that provides 95
  Countywide in-building on-the-hip portable radio
  coverage
• Use of existing towers
• Use of County owned property
• Lease or purchase of land as necessary

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Towers and Coverage

• Tower system design to meet the
• 95 in-building coverage requirements

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Point to Point Microwave

• All towers are linked together by microwave to
  create a system

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Tower Designs and Lighting
Top Beacon Lights
Side Markers
Guy Tower
Beacon Lights
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Tower Compound Design
Tower compounds and towers are being built in
wooded areas with natural screening and designed
to accommodate co-locations of cellular providers
to reduce the overall number of towers needed in
the County and for revenue to help fund the
ongoing cost of the system.
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Proposed Tower Sites

• Beaverdam Site In wooded area behind Beaverdam
  ES 350/Self-support
• Doswell Site In the rear of the Doswell Water
  Plant 400/Self-support
• Rockville Site Off MLC Dr. on MLC
  Property 330/Self-support
• Farrington Site Off Route 33 at the New Fire
  Station 300/Self-support
• Elmont Site In the wooded area behind Elmont ES
  400/Self-support
• Georgetown Site Off Georgetown Rd. at Old
  Landfill Site 450/Guy Tower
• Holly Hill Site Near the Dominion PS off Cedar
  Lane 300/Self-support
• Old Church Site Off Route 606 near McClellan
  Road 400/Self-support
• Ellysons Site On Rt 156 South of Ellysons
  Garage 400/Self-support
• Sinclair Site Shady Grove Rd. east of
  Meadowbridge 400/Guy Tower
• Coatesville Site Old ATT Tower on Old Ridge
  Road Commercial Tower
• Gum Tree Site Behind Ashland Machine Shop on Rt.
  1 Commercial Tower
• Montpelier Site County Transfer Station off Rt.
  715 Current County Tower
• Poor Farm Site Poor Farm Park behind PH
  HS Current County Tower
• Pole Green Site In the rear of Pole Green
  Park Current County Tower

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Project Schedule
Current Commercial Sites

• Filed CUP Applications
• Conducting Community Meetings
• Planning Commission Public Hearing - TBD
• Board Public Hearing - TBD
• 911 Center construction underway
• Tower construction proposed to begin Spring of
  2008
• 911 Center project to be complete late 08/early
  09
• Communications System complete late 09/early 10

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Hanover County Communications System and 911
Center Project

• Questions
• Thirty minutes to review individual site stations
• Recap