Case Study: City of Boulder improves water quality and cuts reporting time with Aquatic Informatics

Information management software helps utilities reduce costs while improving water quality

The City of Boulder faced budgetary pressure and operational challenges due to its cumbersome, manual data management processes for its water treatment facilities. The city struggled with time-consuming regulatory reporting and an inability to effectively analyze data to optimize processes and reduce costs. To address this, they implemented the Water Information Management Solution (WIMS) from vendor Aquatic Informatics.

The solution from Aquatic Informatics centralized data, automated reporting, and provided powerful analysis tools. This resulted in regulatory report generation time being reduced from days to minutes, allowing operators to focus on process optimization. The city achieved significant cost savings, including identifying a process issue that caused $200,000 in annual hauling costs and another that is projected to save up to $20,000 per year, all while improving overall water quality.

City of Boulder

Vicki Jones

Process Optimization Specialist