The city of Statesboro is moving forward with an upgrade of software and networking for its water and sewer control system after City Council recently approved spending up to $250,000 for this purpose.With the upgrade, the city is sticking with Revere Control Systems as the main vendor for its Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition, or SCADA, system. Water and Wastewater Department officials said Revere has been its software supplier since the SCADA system was installed in 1995.“It’s written specifically for our system and the way we operate it, so if you changed your software vendor and all that, you’d wind up spending 2 or 3 million dollars to completely rewrite everything that we’ve done over the last 15 or 20 years,” Water and Wastewater Director Wayne Johnson said in an interview.The system monitors the city’s six wells, indicating not only whether the pumps are working, but things such as the amount of chlorine used. It also shows water levels in the five elevated water tanks and monitors the 25 sewage pump stations, as well as equipment at the wastewater treatment plant, noted Van Collins, the department’s assistant director.With wireless links, the system can signal power failures and other emergency conditions.
Statesboro upgrading water system remote control
Estimated cost nearly $200,000