by Robert Czachorski | Oct 24, 2018 | Blog |
Sewer flow meters can be very laborious and expensive to maintain. Regular meter services and spot check measurements can quickly eat up your metering budget. This article outlines how the use of data analytics can optimize your metering accuracy and servicing costs....
by Robert Czachorski | Sep 7, 2018 | Blog |
Verifying the accuracy of sewer flow meter data can be very important for applications such as billing or capital planning. Dye testing is one data QA/QC method to provide an independent check on the accuracy of a flow meter. Dye test results can even be used to...
by Robert Czachorski | Aug 30, 2018 | Blog |
You have decided to embark on a flow metering project in your sewer system, perhaps to develop design peak flows or to perform an I&I analysis. Flow metering can be expensive and mother nature does not always cooperate with providing good rainfall events. So it is...
by Robert Czachorski | Mar 28, 2018 | Blog |
The Manning equation is a widely used and very versatile formula in water resources. It can be used to compute the flow in an open channel, compute the friction losses in a channel, derive the capacity of a pipe, check the performance of an area-velocity flow meter,...
by Robert Czachorski | Mar 22, 2018 | Blog |
What is flow? For those of us in the water resources field, it is obvious from our everyday work and experience. But there are some nuances and details about flow that are important to understand. In this post, I will cover the basic concepts of flow, including some...
by Robert Czachorski | Dec 14, 2017 | Blog |
Why is my engineer asking me for so much data? Best practices for flow and rainfall data collection for sanitary collection systems. This blog post was adapter to an article in the April 2020 issue of Water Environment and Technology. Here is a link to download a PDF...