The Powder Mountain job: sewer ponds on a legacy SCADA, wireless.
Above Eden, Utah, the Powder Mountain community's sewer system runs on evaporative ponds and a SCADA that was built for wired transmitters. We're putting wireless level sensors in the ponds and walking the readings straight into that existing system — no trenching, no new signal wire, no SCADA replacement. These videos were filmed on site as the job went in.
- The job
- The Powder Mountain job — Eden, Utah
- The sites
- Evaporative sewer ponds plus the sanitary line above them
- Hardware
- Submerged pressure level sensors (15 ft pond and 165 ft custom-length), with ultrasonic sensors for the line study
- Integration
- Readings bridged into the existing legacy SCADA — fully wireless, no new signal cable
- Status
- Pond sensors installed and reporting; the line study's full deployment is underway
The job, in Britain’s words
A sewer system on a mountain has problems a flatland system never meets: spring runoff that finds its way into the sanitary line, evaporative ponds that have to be watched, and a control room whose SCADA predates every wireless product on the market. The fix isn’t a new SCADA — it’s getting new eyes to report into the old one. That’s this job.
A pond reporting into a SCADA that never learned wireless
The first pond got a 15 ft submerged pressure sensor. The reading travels wirelessly to the Meterra bridge, which hands it to the existing legacy SCADA looking exactly like the hardwired transmitter that system has always expected. The operators watch the pond in the same screens they’ve always used — nothing about their control room changed, and no trench was cut to make it happen.
The deep pond takes a 165 ft sensor
The deeper evaporative pond needed something no catalog part covers: the same submerged pressure technology on a 165 ft custom-length cable, so the level is known and the pond is verifiably not creeping toward overflow. This clip was filmed while that was still the plan — the sensor has since gone in.
The line study comes with it
The same job includes finding where spring runoff gets into the sanitary line: ultrasonic sensors at multiple points, a dry-season baseline first, then point-to-point comparison during runoff to localize the infiltration. That method — and exactly where it stands — is laid out on Sewer Inflow & Infiltration Monitoring, with its own video from this job.
Where it stands, stated plainly
Pond sensors are installed and reporting into the legacy SCADA. The line study’s full deployment is underway. There are no savings figures or repair outcomes on this page because the season that produces them hasn’t run yet — when it does, the numbers will go here, and they’ll be theirs, not ours.
Running ponds, lagoons, or a collection system against a SCADA you’d rather not replace? Tell us what you run and we’ll tell you what it takes to get wireless readings into it — request pricing below or call (801) 742-1319.
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Related Meterra pages
- Wireless SCADA Integration — how a wireless reading lands in a legacy SCADA as if it were hardwired.
- Sewer Inflow & Infiltration Monitoring — the line-study method this job uses, explained step by step.
- Wastewater & Lagoon Monitoring — level, freeboard, and alarms on treatment ponds and basins.