Sanitary sewer overflows (SSO) in Jacksonville, Fla., were a problem for JEA, the municipal utilities provider.The authority had invested in a SCADA system to control and monitor 1,240 lift stations. It also had paid a company to monitor manholes with known deficiencies and report them to a Web site, but the program was expensive and ineffective. JEA considered installing power and control circuits to monitor sewer levels in certain manholes, but digging up the roads was expensive and would cause traffic congestion and delays.In 2007, the authority asked its water and wastewater reliability specialist, Rodney Williams, to explore ways to
