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Setting the Alarm for an Early Warning
Author(s) -
Schreppel Connie K.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
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Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1551-8701
pISSN - 0149-8029
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8701.2003.tb01710.x
Subject(s) - warning system , alarm , water quality , contamination , environmental science , chlorine , computer science , false alarm , early warning system , event (particle physics) , process engineering , real time computing , engineering , chemistry , telecommunications , artificial intelligence , electrical engineering , ecology , physics , organic chemistry , quantum mechanics , biology
This article describes the Mohawk Valley Water Authority's search to find technologies to implement a utility‐wide early‐warning water quality monitoring system coupled with rapid‐screening methods to detect or confirm a contamination event. MVWA chose a multiparameter sensing instrument that has the capabilities and performance for an on‐line monitoring system component. The device measures chlorine or monochloramine, dissolved oxygen, conductivity, pH, oxidation‐reduction potential, and temperature. The article also describes several rapid‐screening processes that MVWA incorporated in the water quality‐monitoring program.