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eeing the rashes of storms and oods that have hit in recent years, anyone responsible for a water system should be thinking about dusting off that emergency plan.

The department also manages the regions wastewater. Both the water and sewage systems require fault-tolerant access to data from hundreds of eld instruments and 16 treatment facilities in real time. The control system gives operators absolute control over the vast network a job that grows bigger as the population and industry expand. The department deployed the system using in-house resources, giving all involved a deep understanding of what it can do and how to operate and maintain it. Its a recipe for a future of reliable, effective performance and quality service to the regions nearly half-million people. Look for stories on all these items in this issue of Water System Operator. And remember, we are always interested in your story how your operating team keeps your system compliant, how you sustain high efciency, how you train and elevate your team, how you provide superior service to customers. Pass along your ideas to editor@wsomag.com. I promise to respond to each inquiry. I look forward to hearing from you. wso

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The facilitys four high-service pumps, each one with a motor rated at 1,750 hp. (Motors from US Motors/Nidec Motor Corp., pumps from Goulds Water Technology).

Goulds Water Technology

866/325-4210 www.completewatersystems.com/ brands/goulds

We average about 24 inches of rain per year, but in 2011, we were about 14 inches below the average. The ASR really saved our bacon last year.
Water efciency measures apply even on the ASR site. A cistern collects runoff from structure roofs, and that water is used for site irrigation, along with the treatment plants lter backwash water. Site landscaping uses native plants that need little water. Most of the property is rented to cattle ranchers and to farmers for growing peanuts, strawberries and other crops.

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Infor Public Sector

Successful performance
With an assist from the weather, the ASR facility has performed beyond expectations. Available storage in the aquifer is estimated at 200,000 to 400,000 acre-feet. At our peak, the most we have ever stored is 95,000 acre-feet before we had to start tapping into it, says Macias. During six or seven of the years since the facility was built, it was wet here in San Antonio, so we were just storing water. But almost all of last year we were in a recovery mode because of the drought. We average about 24 inches of rain per year, but in 2011, we were about 14 inches below the average. The ASR really saved our bacon last year. Our studies show that we have enough water stored to survive the ve-year drought of record. The ASR site and aggressive water conservation measures help SAWS prevent water shortages. Its cheaper to conserve water than to buy new sources, notes Sarah Gatewood, communications specialist with SAWS. We have water rules that mainly focus on outdoor irrigation. Yearround, watering is not permitted between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m. When the Edwards Aquifer drops below certain levels and the EAA limits how much of our permit we can use, we limit customers to watering during those same hours, once per week, on an assigned day. While SAWS does not restrict indoor water use or water for business purposes, it does offer free faucet aerators, showerheads and low-ow toilets. The utility also works with businesses to customize water-efcient retrots.

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Looking ahead
For the years ahead, SAWS is exploring renewable energy at the ASR site. One attractive option, Macias says, is a hydroturbine in the incoming pipeline from San Antonio to capture energy from the water owing downhill. Another possibility is photovoltaic energy, as the site provides abundant vacant land that could host solar panels. The facility already saves energy by using high-efciency motors with soft starts and variable-speed drives. Another interesting thing coming to the ASR area is a brackish desalination plant, notes Gatewood. The plant will draw water from 2,000 feet deep in the Wilcox Aquifer and treat it with reverse osmosis. We are drilling the production wells right now, and we expect the plant to be online by 2016. When that plant is complete, San Antonio will have yet another source of high-quality water for a growing and thirsty community. wso

Technician III Sharon Surra uses a pH analyzer (Hach).

Roberto Macias monitors operation of the solids contact units on the facilitys SCADA system (Transdyn).

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alarm or a customer call, says Armstrong. Although they could manually shut off a well or booster pump with the SCADA, I would rather have them go into the eld and check it out in person to make sure that the equipment is properly shut down. Preventive maintenance takes much of the teams time and is a skill most of them have learned on the job. Outside training and seminars keep them abreast of the latest equipment and technologies. Weekly safety training has also paid off: We havent had an injury in 10 years, says Armstrong. The utility has saved money by doing maintenance work in-house. Rich McKenzie came to us with a lot of experience laying pipe and hes really skilled at digging, says Armstrong. He knows all the safety practices and makes sure the guys put on their hardhats and reective vests. McKenzie also inspects backow prevention devices to make sure there is no contamination to the lines. The utility requires all commercial, industrial and residential properties with livestock to install and maintain backow prevention devices. Meanwhile, eld foreman Hoke has the whole system in his head from 47 years with the company, says Armstrong. He doesnt go down into the holes anymore. The guys wont let him. Fries inspects, operates and maintains the companys equipment and reservoirs, including daily inspection of all online pumps and boosters.

Future growth
After 57 years in the same building, the water company completed a new 3,200-square-foot ofce building in April 2012. The larger building will give us all the tools to operate for the future, says Armstrong. Besides ofce space, the building will house an electronics room, a vault for sensitive documents, and a board room for shareholder meetings that until now have been held offsite.

Armstrong doesnt foresee much population growth, except for maybe a few hundred new homes. The city is planning a new park, and Armstrong hopes it will be drought-proof, with plants that can withstand dry conditions. The utility recently built a 1,000-foot-deep well to serve the current population. We have some aging wells and are always looking for a way to boost our efciency, Armstrong says. Other plans include a mile of new lines to transport water to the MORE INFO: reservoirs, and perhaps a 2-milInland Water Works Supply Co. lion-gallon reservoir in a few 800/794-3121 years. Another reservoir will give www.inlandwaterworks.com us twice the storage capacity in Mueller Systems our largest pressure zone, allow800/323-8584 ing us to pump the wells longer www.muellersystems.com during off-peak hours to reduce Nidec Motor Corporation electrical cost, says Armstrong. 888/637-7333 For now, employees are excited www.usmotors.com about the 100-year anniversary. Wheeler-Rex Says Armstrong, Were planning 800/321-7950 an open house to celebrate, and www.wheelerrex.com were inviting shareholders and the public. wso

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on large-diameter and plastic pipes where other technologies had not been successful. In time we began discussing the whole issue of water distribution systems, water loss, water meters and NRW, and it started to grow from there. In 2011, Mueller Water Products acquired Echologics, adding to its history of more than 100 years working in water distribution systems with water metering, valves and hydrants. The combined companies have unique offerings that help solve the problem of NRW.

corporation stop. All these technologies are non-intrusive. The sensors have a very low noise oor, and theyre backed by powerful algorithms in the leak detection software.

wso: NRW is a long-standing issue. Why cant utilities and communities simply perform their own audits and develop their own strategies? Fisher: Some cities can, and they do. However, the water utility workforces are aging, and a lot of the knowledge base is leaving through retirements. Further, because of revenue shortages, open positions are going unlled. It comes down to a question of time. Another issue is technology. When you add more water meters, and with the advent of automated meter reading (AMR) and advanced metering infrastructures (AMI), theres literally gigabytes of data being generated, and it takes certain expertise to analyze that data and make good decisions from the analysis. wso: What is the rst step in an NRW study for
a community? Fisher: The rst thing to do is have discussions with different department heads across the city, because each one has valuable information that can help solve the problem of NRW. The next thing to do JIM FISHER is go to the source the treatment plant and look at the meters. Have they been tested for accuracy? That is one of the most important things any city should do. We have the ability to test the accuracy of those meters. Thomas: The accuracy of the larger customer meters is also important. Two-inch, 3-inch or larger commercial meters generally make up only about 1 percent of the total meter population within a water utility, but they may represent 50 percent of the revenue. They need to be updated, tested and maintained quite frequently.

wso: How would you describe the condition assessment technology? Fisher: The pipe wall condition assessment technology uses the same tools as the leak detection system. You dont have to shut the system down or insert anything into the live water system to determine how much thickness and how much strength is left in the pipe wall. Youre actually doing condition assessment while youre doing leak detection. Its a proprietary assessment process backed by signicant expertise and computing power. wso: How does the metering side come into play in NRW service? Thomas: We start with the treatment plant and make sure we know whats going into the distribution system. From there, we account for the amount that went through the customers meters. The difference is the initial NRW. From there we deduct whats called authorized unmetered use water used for hydrant ushing and other purposes that are necessary to the maintenance of the system.

With AMR/AMI, we can take all the data thats coming in, minute by minute, and create a benchmark a minimum night rate. Once you create that benchmark across a number of DMAs, you see the sore spots.

wso: Typically, how much of a utilitys NRW consists of leakage? Fisher: Generally, once you get down to the nitty gritty of it, leakage can be up to 70 percent of the NRW gure. wso: When it comes to leak detection, how do you decide where to deploy the technology? Fisher: Many utilities have 30 or 40 years of leak history. They know the ages of the pipes and the types of pipes. Theyre looking at critical mains where if something lets go, you may put a hospital or a school out of service, or disrupt trafc. They know the sore spots in their distribution systems. wso: What are the basic technologies used for leak detection? Fisher: The rst step is general sounding of hydrants, valves and select services with electronically amplied instruments to detect the presence of leak sounds. Second is an acoustic correlation system with advanced data analytics. There are really two types of technology. One is a remote system with transmitters, a receiver and sensors, and the other uses xed correlating pods that you program and deploy across valves, services, hydrants and other components. We use three types of sensors, depending on the type of pipe. Regular accelerometers are great for metallic pipes. There are low-frequency sensors for PVC pipe. And then there are hydrophones that actually come in contact with the water column theyre installed on a re hydrant or a

wso: How do AMR and AMI contribute to NRW analysis? Thomas: What were doing with these technologies is bringing the metering data back on the network. We can read the meters hourly instead of monthly, and we can read them all at the same time, so we can now correlate that back to the water being pumped into the distribution system and truly get an accurate picture or analysis of what is NRW versus revenue water. So every hour we can account for how much water went into not just the total distribution system but actually into different parts of the system. We can set up district metering areas (DMAs) where we put master meters in place, so now we can actually monitor subsets of the distribution lines. Now we can read all the water meters at the same time we read the DMA meters, and we can see the individual area where the NRW is located. This brings AMR/AMI to another level, where we can analyze this data and provide information so that the leak detection side of our offering can then go nd the leaks more accurately. Fisher: With AMR/AMI, we can take all the data thats coming in, minute by minute, and create a benchmark a minimum night rate. When everybody supposedly is asleep and nobody is using a lot of water, that minimum ow within a small geographic area is an indicator of whether there is leakage or not. Once you create that benchmark across a number of DMAs, you see the sore spots. It indicates where the utility can best manage its resources, time and money to x and control water loss within their system. wso: In summary, what is it that makes this NRW Service offering different? Fisher: Its the total package of analytics, maintenance services, leak detection, condition assessment, and metering technologies that Mueller Water Products, Mueller Services and Echologics can bring to bear to solve NRW problems. wso
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BY MIKE SCHOBLASKA

DISTRIBUTION
Compact pump series
Thompson Pump offers the Compact pump series with all the features of the JSC series except with a compact size, lighter weight, fewer parts, less maintenance, and lower price. The units are 35 percent smaller and 20 percent lighter but offer the same performance as a standard size pump with 24-hour run time fuel tank. Available in 4- and 6-inch sizes, the series offers an economical alternative to similar-sized portable pumps. The pumps also include the Enviroprime system that keeps pumpage from discharging into the environment. 800/767-7310; www.thompsonpump.com.

Purging system
The Total Automatic Purging System (TAPS) from Singer Valve is designed to ush tough pipes and improve water quality without compromising re pressure, while minimizing non-revenue water. It uses an automatic control valve and battery-operated timer to control the time, length and pressure required to ush a distribution system effectively. The ushing process is optimized by valve sizes from 1/2 inch to 12 inches, providing the correct velocity to pull or draw freshwater into a zone. A pressure-sustaining feature maintains minimum upstream pressure for system needs and in case re ow is needed. The system scours and cleans pipes, reducing corrosion. Each unit includes a water sampling port so that onsite clarity can be easily seen and sampled without disrupting the process. A hydraulically operated valve introduces or releases water from the control chamber above the diaphragm to maintain accurate water ow. 604/594-5404; www.singervalve.com.

Backup system
The ReliaPrime complete back-up package from Gorman-Rupp Co. delivers the benets of sound-attenuated silent pumps and operates on natural gas. It features a 6-inch Super T Series pump capable of passing 3-inch spherical solids and offers a soundproof lightweight aluminum enclosure with padlockable door panels that can be removed for maintenance of the pump or engine. 419/755-1251; www.grpumps.com.

Heated pipe wraps

Pipe Wraps from Powerblanket feature GreenHeat Technology and provide a heating solution for freeze protection and rapid thawing of pipelines in water treatment plants. These lightweight wraps can be used to heat pipes, manifolds, pumps, hoses and other temperature-sensitive equipment. Available in sizes from 1 to 78 inches in diameter, the wraps have adjustable straps that ensure a secure t. They consist of heat trace, heat-spreading carbon ber material, an insulation barrier, and an outer vinyl shell. Certied to all applicable UL and CSA safety standards, the wraps are powered by 120 V electricity and are safe to use on metal or plastic pipes and hoses. The wraps are also UV stabilized and wind and water resistant, allowing ow within piping to continue even in temperatures as low as -58 degrees F. 877/927-6432; www.powerblanket.com.

Press tool
RIDGID offers the RP 330-B press tool for creating 4-inch copper and stainless steel connections in seconds. Users can work on wet systems and added costs like ux and solder are eliminated. The tool offers diagnostics to ensure a watertight seal with every connection. Eighteen V Li-Ion batteries are included. 800/769-7743; www.ridgid.com.

Plunger valve
Series 300 Plunger Valves from Henry Pratt lessen cavitation. Other benets include economic efciency, operating safety, long life and improved valve control. The unit provides a control range of up to 96 percent. The ow control within the valve avoids creation of stagnant water, ensuring consistent cleanliness and sterility. 877/436-7977; www.henrypratt.com.

Pump station level controller

The PSL 5.0 pump station level controller from Greyline Instruments features redundant level sensing. It includes a noncontacting ultrasonic sensor. Users can also connect a loop-powered pressure sensor for redundant sensing in applications with foam or grease. The device recalibrates the pressure sensor automatically and switches back and forth from ultrasonic level to the pressure sensor as required. Calibration and relay setpoints are easy to enter through the keypad and menu system. An automatic pump run time logging and reporting system helps operators plan pump maintenance and identify lazy pumps before they fail. It includes an isolated 4-20 mA output and six programmable control relays for pump control, pump alternation, and level alarms. Intrinsically safe sensors and a built-in data logger are optional. 888/473-9546; www.greyline.com.

Web store
The AquaOnDemand Web store from Aqua-Aerobic Systems serves professionals who construct, operate, or maintain municipal or industrial water and wastewater treatment facilities. Thousands of products, services and educational resources are available. The store houses a resources section with a library of instructions, case studies, data sheets, videos and more. AquaNotes serve as a quick reference on common subjects. 800/9405008; www.aquaondemand.com.

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NEWS
Peerless Electronics launches eCommerce stores
Peerless Electronics, distributor of electromechanical and interconnect products, launched six vertical market eCommerce stores. Accessed from www.peerlesselectronics.com, the stores offer switches, relays, circuit breakers, contactors, connectors, terminal blocks, splices, heat shrink and indicator lights and fuses.

INDUSTRY

ITC becomes authorized IACET provider

The Infrared Training Center has received authorized provider status from the International Association for Continuing Education and Training to provide IACET continuing education units. The recognition period extends for ve years and includes all programs offered or created during that time.

Thompson hosts 2012 Pumpology school

Thompson Pump & Manufacturing Co. held its 22nd annual Pumpology school at its corporate facilities in Port Orange, Fla. A total of 50 attendees from 19 states and three foreign countries participated in the three-day workshop, including training sessions for sales and service professionals in pumping fundamentals, dewatering and bypass applications, selecting the correct equipment, designing, installing and maintaining pumping systems and troubleshooting.

Copperwing adds media planner, buyer

Copperwing Design hired Natalie Panciera as media planner and buyer. She is responsible for the development of multimedia plans, strategies and campaigns in support of client goals and objectives. Copperwing serves clients in the water and wastewater industry.

Buckley joins UV Pure

Natalie Panciera

Aqua-Chem names CFO, applications engineer

Aqua-Chem named Thomas Gillcrist chief nancial ofcer and Ron Shook pharmaceutical applications engineer.

Steve Buckley joined UV Pure and will be responsible for a sales territory and business development in the U.S. Engineered Solutions market. He has a bachelors degree in civil engineering, masters degree in environmental engineering and achieved the highest level of wastewater certication in Massachusetts and California.

Oldhams OLCT IR receives IP67 certication

Oldhams OLCT IR infrared xed gas detector, tested according to IEC/EN 60529, was awarded IP67 protection degrees. Tests were conducted by INERIS, one of two IECEx certication bodies in France. The design protects the OLCT IR against dust and the effect of immersion in up to one meter of water.

Hach TSS EX1 sensor receives Class 1, Division 2 certication

The Hach TSS EX1 sc sensor for suspended solids measurement received Class 1, Division 2 certication for use in hazardous areas.

Xylem names VP of sales, managing director

Xylem named Mike Delzingaro vice president and director of sales for dewatering solutions. He has 14 years experience and was regional manager for the northeast region. The company also named Grant Salstrom managing director, Godwin. He will be responsible for the growth and development of the Godwin and Flygt brands within Mike Delzingaro Grant Salstrom the U.S. dewatering market.

MWH meets UCMR3 prociency testing requirements

MWH Laboratories, division of MWH Global, has met all prociency testing requirements by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for the third round of the Unregulated Containment Monitoring Regulation. Beginning in January, water utilities serving a retail population of more than 10,000 are required to conduct one year of monitoring for 28 contaminants being considered for future regulation. Only laboratories approved by the EPA specically for the UCMR3 monitoring program are allowed to report results.

Parkson names Hurley president, CEO

Parkson Corp. named Shamus M. Hurley president and chief executive ofcer. He replaces Zain Mahmood, who stepped down after ve years as CEO.

Kemira establishes R&D center in Alberta

Kemira opened a research and development projects laboratory in Alberta, Canada. Located on the campus of the University of Alberta, the laboratory will be an extension of Kemiras North American R&D, headquartered in Atlanta, Ga.

Grundfos opens business development center

Grundfos opened its business development competency center, approximately 40 miles west of Chicago. The center serves all of North America and is devoted exclusively to the municipal wastewater industry. It is housed in the 105,000-square-foot, pump-manufacturing facility of the former Yeomans Chicago Corp., which Grundfos acquired in 2008.

Calgon Carbon chairman, president, CEO retires

John S. Stanik, Calgon Carbon chairman, president and chief executive ofcer, will retire after 21 years. The board of directors expects to ll the position by the third quarter of 2012. Stanik will remain with the company until a replacement is hired. (Continued on page 39)
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about your plant and ondary) to provide fault tolerance system innovations for future and to support periodic software Bright Ideas articles. maintenance, ensuring that one Send your suggestions to server remains live while the other editor@wsomag.com or is down. Two terminal servers call 877/953-3301. provide links to Procy iFIX clients remote thin clients that give operations personnel Web-based access via Citrix enabling technology. Overcoming barriers The terminal servers ensure consistent application functionality and We reached a point where there were signicant challenges with the a common look and feel, and greatly streamline system maintenance. existing infrastructure that had been in place for several years, says Changes can be made to the application on the terminal servers and then Presti. Plants had differing SCADA system congurations with a widely pushed out to all remote locations. variant look and feel. Each plant hosted its own separate SCADA congA perennial network problem was resolved with the addition of uration. The six water treatment plants were paired and linked over the QuickPanel RTU collectors at remote stations. The QuickPanel RTU organizations ber-optic wide area network (WAN), but any change in provides a eld-based operator interface along with critical data storage. one system had to be separately engineered elsewhere. The compact, slim unit communicates with Allen-Bradley (Rockwell If a manager wanted a link into a plants SCADA system, that congAutomation) programmable logic controllers (PLCs) via OPC and uration had to be loaded on his or her desktop. That effort multiplied Modbus industrial network protocols and forwards data over leased Bell across numerous plants made for excessive and time-consuming mainteCanada landlines. nance, Presti observes. The QuickPanels wireless-enabled technology will allow the division to migrate eventually Conversion was the hardest piece. The advantage of doing it to wireless transmission. In either case, commuourselves is we now have a thorough understanding of what we nication interruptions will no longer result in own and how to support and maintain it. We never had that before. data gaps in plant and central Historians, as the QuickPanel RTU provides store-and-forward MARK PRESTI functions that ensure continuous data logging delity for historical purposes. Also, eld instruments at hundreds of remote points in the water and The technical trades team spent three years in a plant-by-plant migrawastewater systems provided readouts on chlorine levels, turbidity, water tion to implement the network infrastructure built around the iFIX levels and other factors that were routed through PLCs via leased landHMI/SCADA platform. Conversion was the hardest piece, Presti says. lines to various plant SCADA systems, and then to plant historians. But The advantage of doing it ourselves is we now have a thorough underthere was no storage capability at remote sites, so when there was an interstanding of what we own and how to support and maintain it. We never ruption in communications, real-time data logging ceased, creating gaps had that before. in information stored in the plant historian.

nal services connectivity to all SCADA nodes. Procy Historian quickly provides access to stores of normalized process data, including alarms and events, for mission-critical monitoring and control. The software is designed to capture large volumes of process data, store it for long periods, and provide quick retrieval by other applications for trending and analysis.

In-house effort
The division handled the upgrade to integrated, distributed iFIX infrastructure using in-house staff. Taking on the project enabled the technical tradespeople to become intimately grounded in the network architecture, boosting their skills and knowledge to manage maintenance, support, and ongoing extensions and upgrades. We had two SCADA and instrument technicians when I started here, says Presti. We brought in three more. When in need of additional technical expertise, the team called on Gray Matter Systems, a systems integrator in nearby Mississauga, and a local consulting rm. The network infrastructure involves individual rack-mounted iFIX solutions and Procy Historian data repositories at each treatment plant. The main services division headquarters also gained a central Historian that provides a single data repository fed by each plant historian for comprehensive, long-term data storage. This, with its own separate iFIX server installation, provides centralized operations management visibility to performance across the entire facilities network. We didnt have one central data repository before, Presti says. This now gives us one location to go to when we want to share data. The central Historian is the foundation for general and ad hoc reporting for widely distributed plant operations. It is also integrated with the Infor Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) solution for improved asset maintenance and repair across the facilities organization.

Empowering users
The team is now working with operations, the ultimate end users, to develop standardized applications and graphics for use across all plants. The initiative was to ensure the systems in each plant were identical in design, Presti says. The common technology infrastructure will enhance the divisions ability to manage maintenance from one central location, gaining economies of scale and efciencies over decentralized, plant-centric maintenance. One of the objectives was to create a common knowledge base across both maintenance and operations, says Presti. Weve given management the tools now were working with senior management in both water and wastewater to standardize how they want to see the information. The goal is to give them the means to get the information themselves with Web-based access. The investment in time to put the infrastructure in place has been well worth the effort. Weve built a very solid infrastructure, states Presti. And we have full understanding and ownership of how it works. Were condent its ready to support our growth in operations. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Alan Hinchman is global market director, infrastructure, with GE Intelligent Platforms. wso
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