Problem: The City of San Luis Obispo wastewater treatment laboratory conducts over a dozen daily tests and was using paper bench sheets to enter and analyze data. The results from the physical sheets were then entered into the water information management system, making two-step manual process that provided information to operators in the mid-afternoon.
Solution: The city replaced paper log books and bench sheets with a water information management system (WIMS) from Aquatic Informatics. Lab technicians now use laptops at sampling and analysis stations to enter data. Once a variable or sample result is entered, it automatically populates on other digital
