Case Study: City of Bellingham modernizes water quality data management with Aquatic Informatics

City of Bellingham serves 88,000 water customers with Aquatic Informatics

The City of Bellingham, Washington, faced challenges with its outdated water quality data management system. Its water quality lab relied on complex, error-prone spreadsheets and separate statistical software, which led to inefficient data processing, frequent errors, and difficulty meeting stakeholder needs for timely information. To modernize its operations, the city partnered with vendor Aquatic Informatics to implement its Aquarius Time-Series software.

By deploying Aquatic Informatics' Aquarius platform, the city centralized its hydrological data management. The solution automated previously manual tasks, eliminated errors from data appending, and provided robust tools for managing ratings and tracking all data changes in an audit log. This resulted in significant time savings for staff, the ability to produce higher quality and more defensible data, and a much improved capacity to meet end-user needs for accurate, timely water information.

City Of Bellingham, Washington