Streamlining data to improve operations
Problem: The city of Kilgore, Texas, struggled with manual data management for their water treatment operations serving 14,000 residents. Like many utilities, they relied on filing cabinets of paper data sheets and Excel spreadsheets for analysis. A critical nitrification event revealed this approach’s inadequacy – when analyzed retrospectively, the problem had been developing undetected for three months, requiring costly remediation that could have been avoided with better monitoring.
Solution: Kilgore implemented WIMS Rio, a specialized software program for regulatory compliance and operational data management from Aquatic Informatics. The comprehensive system interfaces directly with the city’s SCADA databases, automatically collecting,
