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August 2007
Contract shows SEPA confidence in Flygt
ITT Flygt has supplied new data logging equipment as part of
a contract to the Scottish Water Environment Protection Agency (SEPA).
Scotland’s environmental regulator and adviser wanted
to update several hundred data logging outstations, some of which were up to
30-years-old.
Hi-res digital images are available on
request
While replacing them with more modern units, SEPA wanted to
retain much of its existing instrumentation and communications infrastructure.
ITT Flygt’s Monitoring & Control Division secured a
contract to supply replacement units, and recommended its D7141 outstation. It
also provided consultancy to SEPAs top end supplier, including sharing product
expertise, which helped ensure a smooth completion of the protocol driver.
Having been invited to tender last December, Flygt submitted
a pre-qualification questionnaire in January, followed by its tender in
February. The contract was awarded in March after a series of technical
negotiations.
Andrew Welsh, Sales and Service Manager - Monitoring and
Control Division, said: “SEPA required equipment functionality, which our
D7141 outstation was able to provide, and on time delivery. That, coupled with
the long-standing relationship we have with SEPA, meant it had a great deal of
confidence in our ability to deliver.
“It was important because SEPA had to know that we
could supply the units in the tight timescale we were operating in.”
A SEPA spokesman said: “We are currently modernising
our hydrological monitoring network by replacing a significant number of data
logging outstations and associated instrumentation, much of which has now
reached the end of its economic and operational life cycle. The overall
objective of the replacement programme is to provide SEPA with an up-to-date
monitoring network, capable of future expansion and of supporting SEPAs
requirements well into the future.
“The upgraded network will continue to support SEPAs
hydrological operational requirements and will feed data to the recently
installed Hydrology Information Management System (HIMS) and the Flood Early
Warning System (FEWS).
“SEPA has selected replacement equipment from major
suppliers on the basis of cost and proven operational capabilities. The
programme involves changing data logging equipment, raingauge and river level
instrumentation, and is expected to be completed by the end of this
autumn.”
The Flygt outstations have already proved to be cost
effective, and suited SEPAs criteria of low power technology, a range of
different instrumentation inputs, and having the latest technology.
The D7141 is part of the D714x family, a range of IP65/IP67
low-power data logger/telemetry outstations, and is dc-powered. Its small size
and range of capabilities make it ideally suited to a myriad of applications in
the utilities and industrial markets.
SEPA currently operates an extensive hydrological monitoring
network, which measures rainfall, river levels, tidal levels and borehole
levels. It is Scotland’s environmental regulator and adviser, responsible
to the Scottish Parliament, and as well as controlling pollution it works with
others to protect and improve the environment.
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Editor’s notes:
Telemetry & monitoring and control
systems specialist Dynamic Logic has been involved in the manufacture of
electronic instrumentation for more than 30 years for a range of industries,
including water & waste management and process.
In June 2004, Dynamic Logic and ITT Flygt,
the world’s leading manufacturer and supplier of submersible pumps, mixers
and aeration systems, signed an exclusive distribution agreement, which enables
Dynamic Logic’s telemetry products to be available throughout the Flygt
network - complementing Flygt’s products and service offering, benefiting
customers within all business sectors. The products are available through
Flygt’s Monitoring and Control division.
Websites: www.dynamiclogic.co.uk, www.flygt.co.uk, www.flygt.com
For further
information contact:
Joanne Houghton
ITT Water & Wastewater (UK) Ltd
Tel:
0115 940 0111
Fax: 0115 940 0444
Email:
Joanne.Houghton@flygt.com
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