By Anton Riecher
A contract with a Jourdanton engineering firm to develop a digital simulation of the Devine water system to better track flow and pressure was approved by a unanimous vote of the city council on Nov. 19.
Jess Swaim, vice president of 6S Engineering, outlined how the computerized water flow study would benefit the city.
“I’ve looked at what you have for block maps and the lack thereof,” Swaim said. “What we are doing is taking some of those documents and putting them into a software system that allows us to calculate flows and pressures throughout the community and calculate the different parameter to tell where fir flow is, where you might have a leak and things like that.”
The simulation replaces the long, intense calculations utilizing water mains connected in a loop pattern to create a distribution network as a basis for engineering decisions to maintain consistent pressure, he said.
“We can calculate through the model what your pressures are in different locations,” Swaim said.
The simulation also permits personnel in the field to more quickly…
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