Palm Beach, Florida

Southern Region-Water Reclamation Facility, Phase II

When residents of Palm Beach County drive along the Florida Turnpike, they can see the Southern Region Water Reclamation Facility. They can easily see the pumps, clarifiers, and other equipment and related buildings that make up this 30 million-gallons-per-day wastewater treatment facility. What they don't see is the highly sophisticated, automated control and data acquisition system that provides monitoring and control functions for the plant.

The Phase II project doubled the plant's capacity from its previous 15 mgd capacity. Hazen and Sawyer, environmental engineers and scientists, served as the consulting engineers on the project, which totaled $1.3 million dollars in scope. Revere's portion of the project was to retrofit the existing control system and install a new SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) system to support the expansion.

Key Design Factors

Revere applied the latest technologies to develop a system that provides 24-hour-a-day monitoring, data acquisition, and control functions. Key factors in the system's design were minimizing the amount of operator-machine interfacing and reducing the manpower hours required to operate the facility. Our engineers and technicians provided programming and software configuration, computer networking and hardware design, custom-built PLC panels, testing, and site commissioning for the project.

(above) The facility expansion mirrored this view of the existing facility.(below) Close-up of one half of the two-position operator console.