Washoe County Selects InfoWater and InfoSewer

The selection highlights the value of the company's geocentric hydraulic infrastructure modelling and design solutions. Among the reasons cited for Washoe County's decision were the software's many powerful tools, comprehensive functionality, speed, ease of use, flexibility and seamless ArcGIS (ESRI, Redlands, CA) integration.

Washoe County is the only entity in the State of Nevada to deliver a critical array of integrated water resource services including water supply, wastewater treatment, effluent reuse, flood management and early warning, groundwater remediation and water resource planning. Combining these functions in one entity allows careful management of the region's scarce water resources for the benefit of utility customers, the environment and the area's quality of life.

The Washoe County system manages and operates 18 water systems with 506 miles (814km) of mains covering 48 square miles (124 square kilometres); 443 miles of sewer mains covering 22 square miles (57 square kilometres); and wastewater treatment, conveyance and reclamation facilities. One of the facilities it operates is the South Truckee Meadows Water Reclamation Facility. The number of reclaimed water accounts has grown steadily. In 2007, a total of 229 customer accounts used approximately 3.1 million cubic metres of reclaimed water instead of scarce potable water.

"MWH Soft has provided us with powerful software and top-notch service," said Joe Stowell, Licensed Engineer for Washoe County. "We are standardising on MWH Soft engineering GIS-centric technology because the products are very easy to learn and use, integrate seamlessly with our ArcGIS platform, and have the power to model and analyse extremely large and complex water and wastewater networks quickly and reliably. These tools make master planning fast, easy, cost-effective and accurate. That gives us more power to improve the operation, performance and integrity of our existing systems and plan the new facilities we need to accommodate growth."

With direct support to geodatabases, the innovative network modelling and design technology of the MWH Soft geospatial water and sewer software family addresses every facet of utility infrastructure management, operation and protection, delivering the highest rate of return in the industry. Drawing on the most advanced hydraulic and water quality simulation and geospatial analysis technologies, the software effortlessly reads GIS datasets, corrects network topology problems and data flaws, extracts pertinent modelling information and reliably constructs credible network models with astounding speed.