“We had personnel spending hour after hour at lift stations trying to visually determine the root cause of a failure when they could have been better utilized elsewhere, The old alarm system only told us whether or not a station was working, but not why it failed.”

"We viewed the addition of SCADA less on the basis of the initial costs than as a natural progression for any modern utility 0 and a 14-year veteran of the civil engineering field. Our goals are to steadily increase the reliability of our operations by incorporating appropriate technologies."