WASTEWATER MEASUREMENT RESOURCES

• SWAN Corner: Unlock Data To Improve Water Distribution System Operations

  Water distribution system infrastructures are designed to deliver drinking water to end users, but utilities are continually faced with distinct challenges to fulfill this fundamental objective. For example, these utilities improve customer service by delivering water with high pressure, but on the other hand, water conservation policies push them to minimize water distribution leaks. For this reason, water utilities invest heavily in SCADA and telemetry technologies to support operational decisions. However, unlocking historical operational data and fusing it with other data (such as billing information from AMR/AMI networks) to generate actionable insights has proven difficult.

• Monitoring Water Quality With UVC LEDs

  Rapid detection of changes in water quality is critical in water delivery systems, wastewater treatment, and industrial plants for process optimization, environmental regulatory requirements, and consumer health.

• Optimizing SCADA Data For Operational Inefficiencies Within A Water Distribution System

  As water utilities and companies continue to pursue a digital transformation of their distribution and collection systems, new technologies can help address operational inefficiencies within the distribution network itself and for planning, engineering, operations, and the public.

• Pilot Testing Potassium Sulfate Crystallization

  ICP’s Ochoa Mine Project is projected to produce approximately 714,000 tons per year of SOP (K2SO4) from polyhalite ore for greater than fifty years as concluded in a feasibility study.

• A Utility's Guide To Evaluating Network-As-A-Service

  The following pages provide a comprehensive picture of NaaS, including the key questions that will help determine which solution is right for your utility.

• 18 Hours To New SCADA

  Houghton Lake Sewer Authority staff were concerned that the aging computer running their SCADA software application was in danger of failing.  However, their budget constraint was cost-driven and required that any new, fully featured system be up and running in under a week.

• Up Your Energy Efficiency And Save Money In The Process

  With electricity prices climbing each year and eating up a greater share of companies’ operating expenses, energy efficiency is rightly becoming a top priority for many municipalities and businesses. According to the U.S. EPA, drinking water and wastewater treatment plants account for about 30 to 40 percent of many municipal governments’ total energy consumption.

• 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.

• Odor Patrol: Study Identifies Odor Culprits At San Fran Wastewater Facility

  The Southeast Water Pollution Control Plant (SEP) is San Francisco’s largest and oldest wastewater facility. The plant is located in the midst of a mixed industrial, commercial, and residential area, with many of the plant neighbors directly across the street from the plant fence line. Odor emissions have historically been an issue.

• Betting On Biogas: A Wastewater Plant's Journey

  The Lancaster Area Sewer Authority’s (LASA) recent $26.8 million upgrade to its lone wastewater treatment facility promises to reduce the plant’s environmental footprint and save costs by emphasizing energy efficiency and allowing for biosolids reuse.