Projects

Irrigation Diversion Modification Project— Coleman Creek, Ellensburg, WA

This project removes a fish passage barrier─a concrete structure used to divert water from Coleman Creek for irrigation, and replaces it with a side-channel diversion into a flume that controls diverted water through a fish screen and into the Nisbet Farm irrigation system.Watch Technologies will install an automated three-gate system to manage the diversion, monitor flow through the flume, monitor and control a pump well, and control introduction of supplemental water into the system as required should flow in Coleman Creek get below certain minimums. The SCADA system will operate autonomously, providing local display of project data.

Flood and Irrigation Canal Control Gate Project—Rogue River Valley Irrigation District, Medford, OR

This project will replace wooden check boards used to backup water in a major flood canal running adjacent to a major intersection in Medford. The flood canal must remain full to charge an irrigation canal. During significant rainfall events, the flood canal is not usable because it is blocked and so much water is stored behind the check boards. As a result, removing them in a timely manner was all but impossible. An automated 6' by 11' WT Smart Split-Gate will be installed to provide continuous flow control in the irrigation ditch with its top blade and emergency flow control in the flood canal by lifting the bottom 6' blade if water flow over the top blade is too much to manage in its normal, non-flood mode. Flow and control data to and from the site will be transmitted via 900 MHz radios to a Base Station at RRVID offices several miles away. The single-station control system will be the basis for a larger-scale SCADA system to be installed at a later date.

Fleet/Vessel Monitoring & Onboard Control—Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet Benicia, CA

We have completed the first year of a four-year project to remotely monitor fire, flood, humidity, and Cathodic protection viability on U.S. Dept. of Transportation Maritime Administration fleet of reserve vessels. Initial requirements included design and installation of a Base Station and radio-based monitoring system for 13 vessels. Data is displayed locally and accessible via MARAD Intranet interface. Left, Battleship Iowa, one of the vessels included in project.

Multiple Canal Control—Packwood Canal Co., Ellensburg, WA

Designed and installed SCADA control system retrofit at the forebay of the Packwood irrigation canal. System required automating two new gates to control forebay level, fish-flow bypass and canal flow control, installing a radio-linked Base Station, and HMI software with Internet interface, auto reporting flow data to State agencies, and remote monitoring. Completed July 2009

Multiple Canal Control—Bull Canal Co., Ellensburg, WA

Designed and installed telephone-based SCADA control system retrofit at two diversion locations, Yakima River and Wilson Creek, that combine at the forebay to Bull Canal. System controls forebay level and canal flow at both stations. Installed Base Station and HMI software with Internet interface, auto reporting flow data to State agencies, and remote monitoring. Completed July 2009.

Left, Wilson Creek site at forebay to Bull Canal

Diversion Fish-Bypass, Canal Control & Water Consevation Control— Peshastin Irrigation District, Cashmere WA

Designed and installed radio-based SCADA control system for 14 mile canal that maintains fish bypass at creek diversion, canal flow, canal level for freeboard control, and eliminates spill at three gates along the canal. Five gates automated, two retrofits, three new with two being Split-Gates to control canal level and provide canal dump for maintenance and emergency situations. Installed new Base Station and HMI software with Internet interface, auto reporting to State agencies, and remote monitoring. Completed September 2009.

Single station flow multiple pump monitoring/data logging for an intake to a pressurized pipeline irrigation system. Standard WT-RUG3 install. Logged data displayed locally, manually downloaded.

Monitoring multiple pipeline data collection stations. Master Station and four remotes, one with weather station. Master station PC HMI is a web server. Cell-modem telemetry enabled, Internet display and database access via client's web site.

Chapman Reservoir Discharge Control——Winters, CA

Automated reservoir discharge control (cfs) on headgate based on monitoring downstream canal level. Local display and manual/auto modes. RF enabled (Ethernet). MODBUS interface.