Innovyze Smart Water Network Modeling Technology Supports North Carolina Utility

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Innovyze Smart Water Network Modeling Technology Supports North Carolina Utility

Greenville Utilities Commission Selects InfoWater and InfoWater UDF to Manage Its Water Network

Broomfield, Colorado, USA, June 18, 2013 — Innovyze, a leading global innovator of business analytics software and technologies for smart wet infrastructure, today announced that Greenville Utilities Commission (GUC), of Greenville, North Carolina, has chosen Innovyze industry-leading smart water network modeling and management solutions software to manage its water system. The addition of InfoWater and InfoWater UDF will assist GUC in addressing critical design, and operational and water quality issues with maximum effectiveness. For over 100 years Greenville Utilities Commission has provided water and sewer services to the citizens of the City of Greenville and Pitt County. GUC’s extensive growth and progress through the years had led to a vast network of 628 miles (1,010 km) of water distribution piping, a 22.5 MGD (83 million liters per day) Water Treatment Plant and 8 supply wells which combined with 5 additional independent water systems serve a total population of 134,000 people. “Our tradition of excellent water quality and superb customer service has enabled GUC to remain an integral part of the City of Greenville and the surrounding region,” said David W. Springer, P.E., Water Resources Department Plants Engineer. “We have selected these Innovyze products not only because of the unique GIS framework, functionality and flexibility, but these cost-effective solutions will also give us the ability to continue to provide excellent service to our customers for years to come.” Built atop ArcGIS (Esri, Redlands, CA), InfoWater seamlessly integrates sophisticated predictive analytics, systems dynamics and optimization functionality directly within the powerful ArcGIS setting. From fire flow and water quality simulations, valve criticality and energy cost analysis to pressure zone management and advanced Genetic Algorithm and Particle Swarm optimization, the InfoWater product suite comes equipped with everything water utility owner-operators need to best plan, design, operate, secure and sustain their distribution systems. Users can quickly and accurately perform the most complex hydraulic analyses, including multi-point and extended period fire flow simulations, variable speed pumps, and very advanced water quality calculations — then employ a rich array of ArcGIS presentation tools to powerfully showcase the results. InfoWater UDF, which runs on the InfoWater platform, allows water utilities to quickly develop a comprehensive, reliable and cost-effective unidirectional flushing program. This technique has been proven to help improve water quality by restoring disinfectant residual, reducing bacterial regrowth, dislodging biofilms, removing sediments and deposits, controlling corrosion, restoring flows and pressures, eliminating taste and odor problems, and reducing disinfectant demand throughout the system. The software accurately considers the temporal variation in flow velocity magnitude and direction caused by changes in demands, tank levels and operating conditions. It also computes minimum flushing time; total flushing volume and pipe length; flushing velocity of every pipe in the sequence; and available fire flow at the minimum residual pressure. The hydraulic impact of each flushing sequence is monitored to ensure the desired minimum pressure is maintained throughout the system. “We are delighted that GUC has selected InfoWater and InfoWater UDF as its engineering-GIS smart water network modeling tools,” said J. Erick Heath, P.E., Innovyze Vice President and Director of Americas Operations. “The adoption of this advanced network modeling technology will strengthen the enterprise’s hydraulic system operations today and aid it in making better plans for its future water needs.”