Wastewater Measurement Resources

  1. Your Feedback Helped Us Create The New Transcend Design Generator 7/28/2022

    Explore the improvements made to the Transcend Design Generator to improve user experience. 

  2. Optimization Reveals Operational Cost Reductions By Up To 10% Per Year For Cartagena, Colombia

    In 2020 SUEZ initiated a project called SPOT 2023 focused on reducing operational costs with in SUEZ-operated utilities across the world Optimizer was identified as a viable tool that could potentially help to achieve the objective of this project. To investigate this further, Optimatics and SUEZ ran a pilot project study, using the water distribution network in Cartagena, Colombia.

  3. Santa Barbara Strengthens Field Data Collection With A New Mobile GIS Workflow 11/12/2020

    The City of Santa Barbara, California, located roughly 90 miles north of Los Angeles, supplies water to approximately 95,000 residents. Given California's proneness to droughts, state water suppliers face operational challenges surrounding conservation, water-loss prevention, and system maintenance.

  4. The Role Of IoT And Control Technologies In Water Filtration Systems 1/10/2019

    With time, labor, and money at a premium, state-of-the-art controls on filtration equipment can ease the burden on operators while improving uptime and lowering costs.

  5. How Kansas City, MO Optimized Overflow Control For 10 Basins In 3 Months And At Almost Half The Cost Of Original Plan

    Kansas City, Missouri (KCMO) was updating their Overflow Control Plan as part of a federal consent decree with the aim to reduce the frequency and severity of combined and sanitary system overflows during wet weather events. KCMO needed to quickly find the most efficient, cost-effective way to reach compliance and serve their 478 000 residents. They partnered with Optimatics and EmNet leveraging the Optimizer platform to identify the best combinations of conveyance, in line storage, and I/I reduction strategies to achieve their program goals at the lowest lifecycle cost.

  6. Arcadis Completes Hong Kong MTR Extreme Weather & Climate Change Impact Study With InfoWorks ICM 4/8/2021

    Arcadis was commissioned to support this client’s long-term resilience investment strategy by using catchment-level hydraulic modeling and holistic risk assessment. The work assessed flood risks arising from extreme weather events.

  7. A Digital Journey Through ACE24 6/28/2024
    With more than 10,500 attendees at ACE24, AWWA's Annual Conference and Exposition is getting back on track to (almost) pre-COVID levels. And if you were away for a while, you were struck by the amount of digital technologies on the show floor.
  8. Ultrasonic vs. Radar In The Water Industry 6/30/2017

    In recent years, the debate about which technology is best suited for level monitoring and open channel monitoring (OCM) applications has taken some traction. There are those who argue that ultrasonic level technology has been uncontested as the standard for level and OCM applications in the water industry. The counter-argument is that radar technology is more effective because it is more robust and accurate than ultrasonic technology. 

  9. Sounding The Alarm On Silent Noncompliance 7/5/2019

    Water and wastewater utility operators work diligently to operate within strict guidelines, ensuring their facilities are producing the best drinking water and highest quality effluent possible. Despite all their efforts, however, it can be easy to fall outside of regulatory compliance without even being aware. The key to avoiding problems like these is to understand how silent noncompliance can happen and knowing when to raise a red flag.

  10. Georgia City Reaches Beyond Metering With Xylem 1/18/2023

    Learn how the Sensus smart utility network allowed Gainesville to improve leak detection and enhance customer service.