Preventing Sewer Overflows Through
Smarter Monitoring

As climate change brings more intense rainfall and stresses aging sewer infrastructure, utilities are increasingly turning to ADS Environmental Services, a unit of IDEX that provides proactive wastewater monitoring solutions.

A large, community owned utility in Florida – one of the largest wastewater systems in the United States – uses ADS water level monitors and cloud based data analytics to manage more than 3,900 miles of sewer lines and 1,300 pumping stations. By focusing maintenance on roughly 100 known blockage “hot spots,” the utility uses ADS ECHO® level monitors connected to PRISM® software to detect developing blockages early via an advanced machine learning algorithm. This data-driven approach helped reduce sewer cleaning work orders by 35%, preventing overflows that could pollute waterways and threaten public health.