Case Study: New Orleans Addresses Storm Water System Vulnerabilities

River Stream Canal flow monitoring

Customer As a result of its unusual topography, the city of New Orleans is prone to flooding from the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, as well as frequent inundation from high intensity rainfall. Since the late 1800s, New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board (NOSWB) has been tasked with providing the city adequate drainage, sewerage collection…

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Temporary Flow Measurement Solution With An Improperly Installed Flume

palmer bowlus

Recently one of our customers was contracted to perform a temporary flow study at a commercial bakery.  The purpose of the flow study was to quantify the volume of process wastewater being discharged so a pretreatment system could be designed and installed to satisfy the requirements of the local water control district.  Our customer reached…

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Multiple Outfall Flow Monitoring Application Challenge

ISCO Signature Flow Meter

A recent application challenge was presented to us by an industrial customer in the Southeast Texas area. The customer was relocating their final outfall from their wetland treatment system to a remote area without AC power. They needed a way to measure flow rates in three side by side 36” culverts and collect flow weighted…

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Teledyne Isco FlowCalc App For Android Release

ISCO flowcalc app

The release of the Isco FlowCalc app for the iOS platform during WEFTEC 2012 received an excellent response.  I am now pleased to announce that Teledyne Isco has made the application available for the Android platform. The Android version will have the following additional features: Calculation for the Manning Equation Calculation for the Cipolletti weir…

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