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Remote monitoring & controls for unmanned reliability
LONG-TERM LOW VOLUME SEEP COLLECTION Challenge Xylem was tasked with designing a seep collection system to collect water from a low volume seep through the...
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The Utility’s Guide to Evaluating Network as a Service (NaaS)
How to carefully select the best end-to-end hosted solution for your utility network. The AMI network is the backbone to your daily business operations....
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How to plan control and resilience against harmful algae bloom
It’s the call no water treatment plant superintendent wants to receive, especially not while on vacation. Andy McClure, Superintendent of Toledo, Ohio’s...
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Building a Bypass with Meticulous and Multiple Back-up Precautions to Ensure 100 Percent Uptime
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, like hundreds of other cities across the nation, is tackling the challenges of upgrading its water and sewage system as efficiently...
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California Lift Station Finds Perfect Pump Rental Solution
When a submersible sewage pump failed at the Menlo Lift Station in Hemet, CA, it left this residential lift station – a key component of the Eastern Municipal...
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Xylem’s Bypass Enables Critical Upgrades for Aging Sewer Lines in Greenwich, Connecticut
The Sewer Division of the Greenwich Department of Public Works planned to upgrade critical sewer line at multiple sewer manholes along Bruce Park Avenue, a...
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Victor Valley Turns to Xylem to Recover from Mojave Desert Environmental Catastrophe
During any given year, average rainfall in the Victor Valley of Southern California is approximately five inches. But 2010 wasn’t the average year. Five storms...
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Xylem Completes Large Pump Station Upgrade for City of Tampa
True leaders recognize problems before they become emergencies. A case in point is the Wastewater Department team in Tampa, Florida. As part of the city’s...
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Xylem Provides High-tech Bypass and Peace-of- mind During Kiski Valley Treatment Plant Upgrade
To stay in compliance with state Environmental Protection Agency requirements, the Kiski Valley Water Pollution Control Authority (KVWPCA) in Pennsylvania had...
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Complex Discharge Line Bypass at National Brewery Keeps Operations Online
Xylem team addresses high-pH and high temperature bypass fluids for discharge and sewer pipe replacement A national beer brewery in Georgia needed to address...
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Emergency Bypass for Sewer Facility Circumvents Natural and Manmade Obstacles
When operators at the Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority (RWSA) in Charlottesville, Virginia discovered a compromise in the 54- inch secondary effluent water line...
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Florida’s Largest Public Utility Recovers One Billion Gallons of Unaccounted for Water
Sensus OMNI meters, a rigorous testing program and infrastructure upgrades save JEA time and money Business is booming in Jacksonville, Florida. The most...
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Eagle Mountain Eases into Technology Upgrade with Sensus FlexNet EasyLink Solution
Utah water utility adapts to rapid growth When a city is growing as rapidly as Eagle Mountain City, Utah , it can be challenging for the water utility to keep...
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Xylem solutions can make your plant more efficient and reduce costs.
A maintenance-needy and energy-inefficient lift station needs help. Challenge: Overseeing the maintenance of the city’s submersible stations as well as rising...
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Altamonte Springs Florida 2016
According to recent studies conducted by the Central Florida Water Initiative, groundwater sources alone will not meet future freshwater demands for area...
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Ensuring high quality water intake in the Queen Mother Reservoir
Photo: A vertical profiler system samples and analyzes water throughout the depth of the Queen Mother Reservoir in London, UK. This allows operators to become...
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Water plant in Gothenburg (Sweden) implements Xylem UV solution in complex space and reduces energy use by 20%, and environmental footprint by 500kg of CO2-equivalent over each UV lamp lifetime
Challenge : The city of Gothenburg, Sweden’s second largest city, supplies water from two drinking water plants to the city’s 500,000 inhabitants. Xylem was...
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Public Administration of Andalucía (Spain) selects the ozonation and hydrogen peroxide to eliminate Trihalomethanes (THM’s) and pesticides from drinking water sources and comply to EU drinking water regulations
Challenge: The public administration in Andalucia (Spain) is required to comply to standards for the removal of THMs and pesticides in their drinking water...
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Anglian Water uses ozone and hydrogen peroxide to oxidize difficult organics including Metaldehyde while reducing bromate formation to less than 5mg/L
Challenge : Anglian Water in the UK is challenged by a potable raw water supply that has occurrences of pesticides. Solution : An innovative reactor design...
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The city of Retz (Austria) and surrounding villages secure their water supply of the city and some with high technical standard and low life cycle costs using Xylem e-MP pumps and Hydrovar control
Challenge : The city of Retz and some nearby villages are centrally supplied with water for drinking sanitary and fire fighting. The total length of the water...
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Water Service Provider Locates Leaks and Reduces Water Loss on a Critical Steel Transmission Main in the Heart of Milan
Metropolitana Milanese (MM) provides integrated water services for the City of Milan. The utility prioritized the Assiano Linate Transmission Main for...
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City of Montreal (Canada) selected highly reliable and precise Sahara® acoustic video for the inspection on 34 kilometers of pipelines and detected 24 leaks and zero gas pockets.
Challeng e: The City of Montreal supplies drinking water and wastewater services to a population of nearly 1.9 million people. Solution : Starting in 2007,...
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Bypass system at Onondaga County pump station enables completion of vital upgrades
When the West Side sewage pump station in Onondaga County, New York, prepared to undergo its first major upgrade in over 30 years, the project required a...
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Texas Co-op Migrates from Power Line Carrier System to Sensus Next-Generation AMI
Comanche Electric Cooperative makes seamless transition to improve operations Comanche Electric Cooperative covers seven counties and services 5,000 miles of...
