News Talk 94.1/AM 1600 Where The Upper Cumberland Talks
Cookeville entering into a $49,580 contract to upgrade the monitoring system for the city’s sewer plant.
Cookeville Water and Sewer Department Director Barry Turner said the monitoring system is critical to the sewer plant as it shows which pumps are running, what the wet levels are, and alarms when a pump goes out. Turner said the upgrade is not a new system but a new software upgrade.
“Upgrading the software some of it is old,” Turner said. “Some of the servers are old. It will be basically running like it should but it will be the newer software with better support.”
Turner said the new Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition software will allow the city to monitor pumps remotely. Turner said the new software will also help the functionality of the water plant.
“We also use it to help operate the water plant and sewer plant,” Turner said. “This contract is specifically for the one at the sewer plant but we can start pumps and re-route flows.”
Turner said there will not be any drastic changes to operating the updated system through with MR Systems.
“We have to buy some servers and some software but this company will be doing all the configuration and making everything talk together moving it over to the new server and getting it all to work.”
