Flow Monitoring Springboards City to System-wide Sewer Management Solution   Water & Wastes Digest April 2003
The forward-looking Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati (MSDGC) saw a dynamic model of most of Cincinnati's collection system as the tool that would support improved sewer system management, including sanitary sewer overflow (SSO) and combined sewer overflow (CSO) control, planning, and operations.

Replacing the London Water Supply SCADA System   Water Engineering & Management March 2003   Neil Parker, B.Sc., C.Eng., MICE, CIWEM
For Thames Water, managing the process of water abstraction through to delivering treated water to more than five million customers in London involves plant control at more than 150 locations. Most of these are unmanned as the London Water Supply (LWS) supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system carries remote control signals to operate the plant and to monitor its status. The move to a new system was driven by the increasing business need to be able to share data within the SCADA system with other operational and management information systems.
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A Simple Tool to Evaluate the True Cost of Growth   Water Engineering & Management February 2003   David Eckhoff
When a random sample of Utahans were asked in January 2000 what was the most important issue facing Utah today, growth ranked at the top of the list. Growth is inevitable. However, something can be done to control development patterns to head off crowding, congestion, pollution and lost open space.
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Keeping Meters On Line: Accurately Measuring Drinking Water and Sewage   Water Engineering & Management September 2002   Rodney Johnson
Detroit Water & Sewerage Department (DWSD) has a high stake in keeping its flowmeters up and running with calibrated accuracy. This is especially true for its 278 wholesale water meters used in its vast network of distribution lines that serve 126 communities. It also is true for metering sewage inputs from wholesale customers for its Wastewater Treatment Plant. This article focuses on a unique answer that DWSD found for keeping its magnetic meters online by means of a portable electronic system that verifies and certifies calibration, all done in-line.
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Data Logger/SCADA Integration Saves Time For Field Crews, Permits Early Warning of Problems   Water & Wastes Digest February 2002   Charles Calapa
By integrating water meter data recorders as SCADA system RTUs, Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA) is making field crews more efficient and getting indications of problems within seconds.

Modeling Software Helps Utah Water District Plan for Olympics   Water & Wastes Digest January 2002
The 2002 Winter Olympic Games will result in an unusually large influx of visitors to the ski resort community of Park City, Utah. Although it frequently hosts many special events, such as world cup ski racing and the Sundance Film Festival, Park City expects the Olympic sporting events to attract up to 50,000 people for 17 days in February. This modeling software helped them plan for it.

Small Town Finds Big Technology Affordable   Water Engineering & Management November 2001   By Mary Turner
Rapid changes in technology make it vital for small utilities such as Wrightstown to update their systems. IPMC software components make it easy to update, integrate and expand the applications. Non-proprietary software helps ensure that data will be available and usable with existing or future system software. Data preservation in an open architecture format allows for data migration to other software applications as may be required when working with an engineering consultant.
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VSP Approach to Improve Customer Service   Water Engineering & Management September 2001
The District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority (DC WASA) has entered a Vertical Service Provider (VSP) partnership with ORCOM to replace its current water billing system.
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Growing City Lets Model Take Guesswork Out of Sewer Planning   Water Engineering & Management July 2001
Enormous growth in population and industry has placed major challenges on one city’s infrastructure planning operations. An existing GIS system helped with the development of a graphical hydraulic model for the sewers, discovering problem areas and saving the city money on unnecessary upgrades.
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Flexible Monitoring System Helps Ohio Company Meet Daily EPA Measurement Requirements   Water & Wastes Digest May 2001
An Ohio utility company provides water plant operator services to facilities throughout the state, including several very large travel center operations. Daily monitoring became time consuming and costly, so they sought a more efficient solution by investigating plant monitoring systems.
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Web-Based and Wireless REVOLUTIONS   Water Quality Products May 2001   Lorraine Keating, Prism Visual Software
The media predicts that virtually all work as we know it soon will be Web-based and wireless. With the proliferation of PDAs and cell phones, and with their continually decreasing costs, this statement is hard to refute. An article published in Software Technology magazine stated that to characterize this new technology as a "revolution" is an understatement. Rather it is a "cataclysmic change."
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Data Acquisition, Legacy Systems and Your Intranet   Water & Wastes Digest February 2001   By Fred Noble
There are lots of parallels between the events of November 2000 and the events that take place in any factory or municipality that runs a process or monitors its effluent. The technology exists to achieve the much-talked-about six sigma (3.4 errors per million events) levels of measurement quality or process integrity. But antiquated legacy systems keep getting in the way. And, as is the case on the American political scene, it just is not that easy to replace those old methods of measuring things.

New SCADA System Reduces Downtime at Omaha Utility   Water & Wastes Digest January 2001

Like all municipalities, the agency responsible for the distribution of natural gas and water throughout the metropolitan area of Omaha, Nebraska – the Metropolitan Utilities District (MUD) – needed a SCADA system that is user-friendly and failsafe.

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Toledo Water Treatment Plant Switches to PC-based SCADA   Water & Wastes Digest November 2000
The Collins Park Water Treatment Facility at Toledo, Ohio, recently replaced its obsolete operator interface system with Windows NT-based OpenEnterprise software.

New Software Upgrades Process Control For Operators At New York Plant   Water & Wastes Digest August 2000
Recently, the village of Honeoye Falls, New York, found a relatively inexpensive way to upgrade the process control system at its wastewater treatment facility. They used Rotork PakScan software and an old, recycled computer.

Controls Save Sinking Systems at Two Wastewater Treatment Plants   Water Engineering & Management July 2000
Back in 1980 when the North Buffalo (N.C.) Wastewater Treatment Plant went online with a central computer linked directly to all of its field devices, operators were excited by the newfound advantages of automation.

Computer Simulation Helps Prague Modernize and Expand Sewer System   Water Engineering & Management June 2000   John E. Richardson, Ph.D., P.E., and Karel Pryl
Computer simulation is playing a critical role in helping the City of Prague in the Czech Republic modernize and expand its sewer system.

Killer Water Industry Websites Demystified: An Industry Primer   Water Engineering & Management June 2000   Joe Dysart
While stellar water industry Website design once involved unending tedious coding, the good news is that a veritable slew of new software tools has emerged to help automate the process.

Cybersupport: The Key Reason for Web Presence   Water Quality Products June 2000   G.A. Marken
Putting customer service, customer support and technical documentation on a website is key in competing in the marketplace.

New Software Improves Process In Detroit Plant   Water & Wastes Digest January 2000

Ethernet I/O System Offers Enhanced Communications, Customization Options   Water & Wastes Digest November 1999
In response to the increasing use of its Ethernet products, Opto 22 now offers a program called OptoEngineering Services. This program allows customers to request customization of the company’s SNAP Ethernet I/O products.

Outsourcing Enterprise Resource Planning: How it Can Work For You   Water Quality Products March 1999   by Jim Patrick
Use information technology to better your dealings and relationships with customers and suppliers.

Computer System Provides a Strategy for Integration   Water Engineering & Management February 1999   John Jennow, George Madden and Thomas G. Valorose
One water authority needed to find software that could integrate three separate and distinct systems into one compatible unit.

Computers: In the Background   Water Quality Products January 1999
The presence of a certain synergy between hardware and software is needed to create a reliable and profitable computer installation.

Using Electronic Commerce to Give Your Customers What They Need   Water Quality Products January 1999
With the advance of electronic commerce, most businesses have taken their companies to the point of computerizing their business systems.

Automation Online: Using the Internet for Control and Automation, Part 1   Water Quality Products May 1998   Kirt Phillips, Michael Gibson and Pim Little
Communications, with respect to control systems and automation, have traditionally been proprietary and closed.

Computer Billing for the Dealer   Water Quality Products February 1998   Mike McCarty
For most dealers, the first and foremost application for a computer is billing. However, most dealers have several unique billing requirements.

Profit, Productivity and Today's Technology for the Water Filtration and Bottled Water Industries   Water Quality Products February 1998   Lorraine Keating
All successful bottled water and water filtration business owners know that the integration of all operational phases of their business is crucial.

SCADA Optimizes Plant Performance   Water Engineering & Management February 1997
SCADA gives plant operators the tools they need to develop new process strategies and implement new controls, lowering operating costs while improving effluent quality. Overall, SCADA makes it easier to optimize the plant's performance.

The Impact Windows 95   Water Quality Products April 1996   Bartt Strobel
This operating system contains a variety of facets to benefit any company that is computerizing, rightsizing, integrating, upgrading, or just trying to do the right thing.