MWH Soft, a global provider of environmental and water resources applications software, has announced that the Metropolitan District of Connecticut (MDC) has chosen its InfoSWMM Executive Suite software for advanced wastewater and storm water modeling. The decision equips MDC with the ArcGIS-centric (ESRI, Redlands Calif.) software platform, available for modeling, designing and managing its wastewater infrastructure.
Since 1929, MDC has managed the Hartford, Conn., region’s water and sewer systems, which were developed in the 1850s. As the region has expanded, investments in the system have increased sewer capacity and wastewater treatment capabilities that minimize the impact of sewage on area waterways. To further improve the area’s water quality and help protect the health and safety of citizens during storm events, MDC has now embarked on the $1-billion Clean Water Project.
The project includes three basic elements: reduction of combined sewer overflows (CSOs) with the Hartford central sewer system; elimination of sanitary sewer overflows (SSOs) in the sanitary sewers of five adjacent towns; and nitrogen reduction. The existing sewer systems have more than 38 CSOs and eight active SSOs, which release more than 1 billion gal of wastewater to area waterways. More than 50 times a year, about 30 miles of the Connecticut River are impacted by untreated sewage during storm events.
“The ability to accurately model our sewer systems and provide accurate design and analysis simulations of their hydraulic and hydrologic responses is critical to making informed, cost-effective decisions and optimizing capital planning,” said Constantin Banciulescu, principal engineer at MDC. “Although a number of software products can generate hydraulic simulations of sewer collection systems, we felt that MWH Soft’s InfoSWMM was the clear choice for this complex project. It gives us the ability to quickly and easily develop, calibrate and analyze the many hydraulic computer models we will need for the city of Hartford and the surrounding towns."
As a full-featured urban drainage network analysis and design program, InfoSWMM address all operations of a typical sewer system--from analysis and design to management functions such as water quality assessment, pollution prediction, urban flooding, real-time control and recordkeeping--in a single, fully integrated GIS-centric environment.
