Clean water is an increasingly scarce resource, andthe regulatory compliance and reporting burden continues toincrease. Whether your water requirements are related to surfacewater discharge, groundwater remediation projects, drinking water sampling, or treatment effectiveness , you need a robust and flexible data management system that allows you to streamline the management of your water-related data.

opsWater answers this challenge by providing a powerful data management and reporting system which delivers easy-touse calculation and reporting tools for effi cient and cost-effective management of your water-related tracking and reporting. The software works as a stand-alone application or in tandem with the other opsEnvironmental modules to deliver complete water information management and reporting.

• Laboratory Data Integration: Offers three methods:direct database access, ASCII import and customizable data entry forms.
• Automated Compliance Checks: Tracks exceedances and verifi es frequency of analysis requirements.
• Powerful Calculation Engine: Calculates flow and time-based values using analytical replacement values where required and checking against regulatory limits.
• Flexible Data Management: Permit limits can be calculated according to variable data, and can account for time of day, time of year, etc. The software maintains an archive of prior versions of permit limits, calculation methods and plant confi gurations.
• Applicable Requirements: Maintains national, regional, state and corporate requirements centrally and links them to specifi c facilities or outfalls.

Challenge: Your plant has numerous permitted outfalls and a wastewater treatment plant, all with unique sampling and analytical requirements. Processinfluent and effluent samples are collected daily for different parameters depending on the product run. Managing data on your analytes, sampling schedules, conducting alculations, regulatory and internal reporting has become difficult. Recently while generating a DMR, you noted that the concentration of MEK was above the permitted limit. Why wasn’t this discovered when the analytical report was received? Re-sampling could have been conducted. But now, because the reporting period has ended, re-sampling is out of the question, and a Notice of Violation (NoV) is imminent.

Solution: opsWater stores all compliance data in one centralized database. Notifi cations for scheduled sampling events facilitate data collection. Appropriate staff are automatically notifi ed of potential exceedances based on the results of calculations. The system provides a graphical representation of all facility equipment, permit obligations and sampling locations. Near real-time notices allow for additional sampling where required, such that mean concentrations can be kept below the permitted limits.