Emergency Response Times and Area Coverage Statistics

Emergency Response Figures for Westfield, MA

            Shown below are two sets of data, one showing the area serviced by the current 3 fire station layout compared to the new proposed 2 fire station layout.  These figure are in the time brackets of 0 to 4 minutes, 4 to 6 minutes, and 6 to 8 minutes.  Overall with only a small amount of change it does not look like changing to a 2 fire house layout would have a significant effect.

Comments:

            This analysis does only account for a little over 95% of the town of Westfield which likely means this small percentage is closer to other surrounding fire stations and is serviced by these stations.  This analysis also does not take into account traffic data or changing conditions so these service areas are not fixed and could change with the change in conditions.  The difference between the 2 and 3 fire station layouts is minimal and I do not believe that there would be a significant change in response times in Westfield if this station is closed.

This link shows you the full report.

Mt. Tom Windmill Project

This document shows my work in progress project of choosing suitable sites to put a windmill or possibly multiple on top of Mt. Tom in Massachusetts. this document highlights the data layers needed to run this analysis as well as the tools that make it possible.  An analysis of the Project and needed data is also contained within this document and when finished it will also show the steps I took to complete this analysis.

Suitable Wind farm Sites in Adams and Pittsfield MA

This map shows two different towns that of Pittsfield and Adams Ma.  The highlighted parcels are the ones which my analysis has shown would be suitable for building of this wind farm project. Though this map shows you the sites that meet the criteria that I was looking at other factor such as proximity to built up areas or roads are not taken into account so further analysis would be necessary to actually build this development.

This link shows my ArcGIS web app of the selection for Adams and this link shows the web application of Pittsfield.

Adams and Pittsfield Google Earth view

Westfield Suitable Site Mapping

this map shows a site suitability analysis for Westfield.  this map shows the 25 different suitable location within the bounds of Westfield.  This analysis has yielded many more results than the similar suitability analysis I did for Easthampton which only yielded one suitable location.  This analysis was done by a group that I was a part of.

Easthampton Suitable Locations

This is a map showing the one suitable site that was returned from my site analysis.  this site is suitable to build a new Bio-Tech park on.  This analysis unlike the similar one I did for Westfield which led to many suitable locations this analysis shows Easthampton has only one location.

This is a map that shows the various locations of 6 Home Depot stores in and around the area of Westfield Ma.


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