Following a routine fire hydrant flushing exercise in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, Aquify’s analytics team noticed that the water flow wasn’t returning to predicted levels in a specific section of the water system. (The Aquify team monitors utility water systems 24/7 and provides ongoing analytics services.) Utility crews were dispatched and found and fixed a 250 gallons-per-minute (GPM) break. Because the leak was spilling into a little trafficked office park, it wasn’t reported to the utility even after it had surfaced onto the road. It simply wasn’t being seen. But Aquify sensors and data streams saw it.
VALUE DELIVERED
Leaks on utility systems can happen anywhere and for virtually any reason. When flow is monitored in real time, these kinds of episodes become very apparent, very quickly.
CONTEXT
Without sensors and analytics such leaks can go undetected for weeks and months. A 250 GPM Leak is…
- 360,000 gallons of treated and pumped water wasted in a day.
- 2.5 million gallons of water wasted in a week.
- The equivalent water used every day by 1,200 households.
- $21,000+ each week to pay for the wasted water.
Water from leak near a fire hydrant in a low traffic office complex showed up on Aquify’s sensor and analytics system.
