Beth Powell, president of Fluid Conservation Systems, was recently in a Chicago suburb to assist with the solution to the town’s water problem. Each day its system loses 24% of the 5 million gallons of treated water it brings in from Chicago. Over a year, that is $2 million dollars in lost revenue that is why Water Leak Detection is so important. The town purchased water networking monitoring devices from industry leader Fluid Conservation Systems to locate numerous leaks so it can fix the infrastructure and recoup lost revenue.
“A great system loses 6% to 9%, and a good system loses 20%,” Powell said. “Some systems are losing 30% to 40%, sometimes up to 80% of the water they treat. Our solutions have had a significant impact in helping our customers save time, effort, natural resources, energy, and cost.” Water conservation is an issue facing state and local governments in the United States In California and Texas, officials grapple with a scarcity of water due to droughts and increasing demands on usage. In places like Pennsylvania, the issue is not scarcity of water, but rather the aging infrastructure of the municipal water systems that needs major repairs or replacement.
Fluid Conservation Systems has water leak calculators on its website to quantify the cost of water loss, and it offers leak detection and data logging products for water companies to find leaks within their service areas. PermaNET SU is a monitoring device installed on underground valves to listen for a leak. When it detects one, it will send a notification to the client’s dashboard that there is a leak within 500 feet of that sensor.
“It will activate leak mode,” Powell said. “Ours is the only system in the world with a data logger that by itself can tell you there’s a leak.” Two ground microphone products, DXmic Pro and Lmic, provide the direction of the leak within 500 feet of the PernaNET SU. Read More
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