Imagine being blindfolded 100 feet away from the edge of a cliff and told you must walk as close to the edge of the cliff as you can without going over. This is the analogy Engineering Manager Michael Stuer employs to describe the past efforts of the Lowell Regional Wastewater Utility (LRWWU) to control combined sewer overflows by storing the wet-weather flow within the interceptor pipes.“That’s what we did,” Stuer says. “We didn’t know where the cliff’s edge was, so we didn’t push it.”That was about 10 years ago. Things are a little different today. LRWWU installed a SCADA system
