A large municipal water treatment must deal with an aging infrastructure that shows itself in expensiveand disruptive broken water mains and undetected leaks that can cost tens of millions a year in lost revenue. Some of the city’s water mains are more than 100 years old. The department can only recover the cost for providing water and sewer service to its retail and wholesale customers. The department is also dealing with a lack of precision and modularity in hundreds of legacy manual and non-Siemens water meters hindered by efforts to reduce non-revenue water losses.

Unfortunately, the department’s flow meter replacement strategy wasn’t straightforward. When they called their current supplier of nearly 70 flow meters within their system (one of Siemens’ biggest competitors), they were shocked to find that their flow meters had been moved into an end-of-life stage with imminent termination of service, support and parts– and no upgrade path. After evaluating the next-generation magnetic flow meters of several leading suppliers, they chose to work with Siemens and its local instrumentation distributor,an environmental municipal water andwastewater treatment specialist.

Siemens recommended phasing in Siemens SITRANS F M MAG 5100 WAC-powered magnetic flow meters for wholesale customers and SITRANS F M MAG 8000 battery-powered magnetic flow meters for industries, schools, hospitals and other institutions.