Massachusetts Water Resources Authority

Sewer Flow Monitoring and Data Collection
Chelsea, MA

The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA) is the largest wastewater authority in New England and treats sewerage from forty-three (43) cities and towns in the Greater Boston area. EST was awarded contracts by the MWRA to install, program, calibrate, and maintain temporary open channel flowmeters at locations throughout the authority’s collection system. EST has performed over one-hundred and seventy-five (175) flowmeter installations associated with these contracts. These temporary flowmeters were used to measure and record flows, in order to verify and document the accuracy of permanent MWRA flowmeters used to measure sewer flows from municipalities throughout the MWRA service area. EST’s services also included site investigations, reviews of record drawings of monitoring sites, manhole mapping, instantaneous flow measurements, and detailed report generation. All work has been performed in accordance with applicable OSHA regulations and Department of Transportation (DOT) traffic safety standards.

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