WASTEWATER MEASUREMENT RESOURCES

• What Pumps Tell Us About Water, Power, And The Worker

  High up in the Tehachapi Mountains of California’s Central Valley lies the largest consumer of the state’s electricity, driving 14 centrifugal pumps, each rated at 80,000 hp.

• Santa Barbara Strengthens Field Data Collection With A New Mobile GIS Workflow

  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.

• City Of Henderson, NV Tackles Predicted Water Demand Increase Through Master Plan Optimization Saving $120M Over Traditional Design

  The City of Henderson engaged Stantec and Optimatics to develop a new master plan for their water distribution system, in preparation for the expected population growth and demand increase in the coming years. This optimization effort aimed to determine the lowest cost master plan strategy that satisfied the City’s hydraulic design standards, based on forecast 2050 demands Prior to optimization, the City and Stantec had identified a range of possible project sites, so the optimization was largely focused on determining which of these projects to complete, as well as how to size them.

• Legal Issues In Big Data: 2017

  Big Data is often characterized by the large volume of data, the wide variety of data types and the velocity at which the data must be processed. Data can come from many different sources, such as social media use, online purchases, licensed twitter data streams or sensors used in the Internet of Things (IoT).

• Protecting Against Doomsday Contaminants

  New tools are being developed for worst-case drinking water scenarios: chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN)-related contamination.

• Water And Wastewater Pipeline Infrastructure Opportunities

  There is little doubt that America’s infrastructure is aging, and in some cases, operating well beyond its originally intended lifespan. With labor costs representing up to half of the cost of pipe replacement, the key to cost-effective water and wastewater utility strategies revolves as much around labor-saving installation efficiency as it does around the physical performance of a particular material. Here is a look at historic failure rates, causes, and factors to consider when replacing existing water distribution and sewer networks.

• Forecasting The Top 5 Water Trends In 2016

  As the dawn of 2016 emerges and we look forward to the year ahead, it’s instructive to engage in a little prognostication.

• Increasing Data Quality To Leverage Spatial Analytics

  The Prince William County Service Authority supplies clean water and superior service to a large and ever-growing metropolitan population. The Service Authority owns and maintains more than 2,300 miles of pipeline distributing up to 56 million gallons of water a day and treating 43 million gallons of wastewater a day for approximately 350,000 people. 

• Using ATP To Reduce Risks From Legionella In Cooling Towers

  A semiconductor manufacturing facility in France relies on an extensive cooling system to maintain stable conditions throughout their production facilities. The cooling system includes 19 cooling towers and 14 cooling water networks spread over a 135-acre site.

• Carbon Dioxide For pH Control Of Landfill Leachate

  A landfill operator’s leachate treatment plant in Missouri required pH reduction following lime-softening and prior to the biological wastewater treatment process. Carbon dioxide (CO2) was chosen as a substitute for sulfuric acid due to improved process control and a reduced tendency to form scale.