New Product: iota OneBox Operates & Monitors Grinder Pumps Remotely

The iota OneBox telemetry system from E/One Sewer Systems gives you complete command of your fleet of pressure sewer grinder pumps from your office desktop or a smartphone. Now you can improve customer service and take corrective actions as they arrive, while dramatically improving your response time and system efficiency overall. 

iota OneBox, available from E/One

Integrate OneBox into your SCADA network seamlessly and get the information you want about tank storage capacities, power failures, blockages, and faults … instantly! Get diagnostics for individual properties, streets or whole networks in real-time — cost effectively.  

OneBox delivers:

• Remote control and monitoring of individual grinder pumps
• Alerts even before the customer becomes aware of any faults
• Trend analysis, report generation, peak flow demand determinations
• Flow smoothing and maximized efficiency of downstream infrastructure

Developed for utilities by South East Water Corporation, one of Australia’s leading water utilities, the iota OneBox is now available in the United States exclusively through E/One Sewer Systems.

Contact E/One for more information about iota OneBox. See iota OneBox and WaterWorld magazine at WEFTEC 2014.

Case Study: Grinder Pumps Fuel Economic Growth

Southside sits in a rural area of Arkansas. Residents relied on septic tanks, which had a number of problems: some were a half-century old and ending their useful life, but more so, the shallow, soggy soil didn't perc well ... vital for septic systems.

Credit: Crist Engineers

"Improving the wastewater system represents the absolute top priority," was the urgent message of the 2009 Batesville Comprehensive Plan.

"Existing subdivisions couldn't grow anymore and were becoming unsafe due to raw sewage because of bad percolation," says Richardson. A new collection system was fundamental, he adds, "for growth both residential and commercial."

Credit: Crist Engineers

A gravity sewer system would have cause massive disruption and deep trenches. Crist Engineers, located in Little Rock, had designed pressure sewer systems before and chose E/One grinder pumps to do the job.

What were the results? Read the entire story on E/One's web site.

Case Study: Town of Jerusalem, New York

The Town of Jerusalem is located in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York. The region's geography is gashed by several gullies and deep ravines that run down to Keuka Lake; valleys and rolling hills used primarily as farm land; and, steep slopes on the waterfront.

It was precisely the natural beauty and rocky terrain the region prizes that would make it laborious, environmentally disruptive and almost certainly cost-prohibitive to excavate for conventional gravity sewering.

Hundreds of vacation homes (seasonal occupancy is only approximately 20-percent full-time residents) are located very close to the lake, often on small building lots with very little room for septic leach fields.  A high water table and ineffective subsurface drainage means the drain fields have poor percolation to begin with, so decline is rapid and inevitable. 

The town had required homes to be scrutinized every five years.  If an existing septic system flunked inspection, corrections were required which often included the installation of a new tank and drain field at a cost of $20,000 to $30,000 per residence. In many instances there was not enough room to put in an up-to-date replacement.

Constructing a gravity sewer system, back in 1999, was estimated to cost $6 million, whereas an E/One pressure sewer system would cost $3.2 million. The proposed LPS for the Town of Jerusalem eliminated the need for 12 lift stations with a total cost savings of $900,000. Nor did it require a rock excavation outlay pegged at $775,000.

What has Jerusalem's experience been with pressure sewer? Read the entire article on Modern Pumping Today's web site. 

 

E/One Welcomes US Department of Commerce Deputy Under Secretary Hyatt @ WEFTEC

Deputy Under Secretary for the US Department of Commerce's International Trade Administration, Kenneth E. Hyatt met with E/One President Eric LaCoppola and Philip Thompson iota Group Manager for Australia's South East WaterCorporation at WEFTEC in New Orleans this week.  

 Their discussion included the latest developments in E/One's contract with the Melbourne-based utility to provide over 16,000 grinder pumps to their Peninsula ECO project for what will soon become the world's largest pressure sewer system. 

E/One is also introducing South East Water's iota OneBox Monitoring & Control product at WEFTEC. OneBox provides remote control and monitoring capabilities to individual grinder pump stations and promises to change the way utility districts view pressure sewers in the future.