Pump Station & SCADA Modernization
Six pump stations re-powered and brought onto one control network without a single missed delivery of water.
- Owner
- Confidential
- Location
- U.S.
- Market
- Water & Environmental
- Delivery
- EPC
- Scale
- 6 stations
- Completed
- 2023
Six pump stations re-powered and brought onto one control network without a single missed delivery of water.
The utility’s pump stations ran on aging electrical gear and controls that did not talk to each other. Each station had to stay in service while its switchgear, drives and control panels were replaced, and the new SCADA network had to bring all six onto one screen. Water customers would never forgive an outage blamed on an upgrade.
The approach.
- 01
One station at a time
Stations were upgraded in sequence, with temporary power and bypass pumping set and tested before any existing gear came out.
- 02
Panels proven before they shipped
Control panels went through factory acceptance testing with the utility’s operators, so problems were found on a bench, not in a wet well.
- 03
A secure control network
Stations are linked over a segmented network with redundant communications paths, and every signal was point-to-point checked.
- 04
Operators in the loop
Each station passed site acceptance testing with the utility’s staff running the pumps from the new SCADA screens before sign-off.
The outcome.
“You do not get to turn the water off for a week. Every station had a bypass ready before we touched a breaker.”
Project manager, ScottHarry
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