The city of Monroe, North Carolina, is the industrial engine of Union County. Located south of Charlotte, precision manufacturing represents a significant portion of the workforce and contributes to the area’s low unemployment rate of 3%. Manufacturing investment and job creation remain high, and it’s easy to see why the city continues to experience rapid growth.
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A case study involving Aqua Pennsylvania’s use of the AMERICAN Flow Control SEMPER® Remote Pressure Monitor (RPM) appeared in the November 2023 Opflow. Aqua PA began using the pressure sensing technology more than two years ago to identify pressure transients, reduce water main breaks and mitigate nonrevenue water.
Read MoreIt’s been more than two years since Aqua Pennsylvania began using an eye-opening technology, the AMERICAN Flow Control SEMPER Remote Pressure Monitor (RPM), to identify pressure transients and reduce main breaks and non-revenue water.
Read MoreIn October 2021, the Birmingham Water Works (BWW) in Birmingham, Alabama, discovered a broken 16-inch water main in one of its city centers that supplied water to several businesses and hospitals. The break was found after one hospital reported a […]
Read MoreIt was just before noon on August 29, 2021, when Hurricane Ida made landfall on the Louisiana coast as a Category 4 hurricane. But for the Lafourche Parish Water District in Lockport, Louisiana, preparations had been underway for days.
Read MoreIn March 2021, the city of Fairfield, California’s Water Division was tasked with commissioning a new 36-inch Cross Town Transmission Line (CTTL). The CTTL will enhance the already robust distribution system and better serve the water needs of the Water Division’s 33,000 customers. This new CTTL, however, will change the dynamics of the city’s current distribution system.
Read MoreFor any water system, water hammer, also known as pressure transients, pose significant threats, from leaky joints to pipes that burst. The damages resulting from these events can be costly to repair and leave customers without water. The Topsfield Water Department in Topsfield, Massachusetts, has found an answer.
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