California’s Fifth Largest City Adopts MWH Soft Advanced Engineering GIS Modeling Technology

The Long Beach Water Department operates and maintains nearly 765 miles of sanitary sewer line, safely and expeditiously delivering over 40 million gallons per day to Los Angeles County Sanitation District facilities to the north and south of the City of Long Beach. Treated sewage from these facilities, is used to irrigate parks, golf courses, cemeteries, and athletic fields and recharge the city’s groundwater basin. The remainder is pumped into the Pacific Ocean. The Department serves the fifth largest city in the State of California, with a total population of 492,000.

“To facilitate our wastewater master planning effort, we had a tall order to fill,” said Robert J. Verceles, P.E., Division Engineer for the Long Beach Water Department. “We needed an engineer-friendly, highly advanced ArcGIS-centric dynamic sewerage network modeling and design solution based on the industry standard and FEMA certified EPA SWMM5. It had to be capable of handling our large and complex wastewater system, and be backed by excellent technical support. InfoSWMM met all those requirements and more. It has the right level of power, ease of use, speed, flexibility, accuracy, value, add-ins, and support for this challenging process.”

Built atop ArcGIS with native geodatabase support, InfoSWMM is a full-featured urban drainage and wastewater network analysis and design program that delivers the highest rate of return in the industry — making it the right choice for organizations that need a complete, powerful modeling solution for sanitary, storm and combined sewers.

InfoSWMM addresses all the operations of a typical sewer system — from analysis and design to management functions — in a single, fully integrated geoengineering environment. It allows engineers to accurately examine backwater effects and reverse flow, trunk sewers, open channels, complex piping connections, and a complete library of ancillary structures with sophisticated real-time controls. It also offers very comprehensive water quality modeling capabilities including hydrogen sulfide generation and corrosion potential; sediment transport and deposition; and a wide range of pollutants including BOD, TDS, Total Nitrogen, and heavy metals.

The software delivers world-record performance, scalability, reliability, functionality and flexibility within the powerful ArcGIS environment, completely eliminating the need for inefficient, unreliable data synchronization, synching schemes, or middlelink interfaces required by other software. These factors and more translate to increased productivity, reduced costs, greater efficiency, and improved designs — giving wastewater utilities a clear competitive advantage.

Paul F. Boulos, Ph.D, MWH Soft’s President and COO, said: “Our continued investment in best-of-breed GIS-centric modeling and design solutions that are easy to implement and use is giving our customers superior business advantages. Our products are delivering consistent, high quality engineering GIS modeling data, enhanced efficiency and reliable, cost-effective project plans. These advantages are leading to measurable improvements in productivity, sewer infrastructure performance, return on investment, and customer satisfaction. The Long Beach Water Department is a vivid illustration of how progressive, leading wastewater utilities are using these highly effective tools to optimize short- and long-term capital planning and infrastructure sustainability.”