Case Study: City of Spokane builds regulatory confidence and prioritizes dam maintenance with Rezatec

City of Spokane uses Rezatec to protect 150 million gallons of water a day

The City of Spokane owns and operates the Upriver Hydroelectric Dam, a critical asset for power generation and water delivery. The challenge was to meet strict Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) safety standards and prioritize a multi-million dollar rehabilitation project for the aging dam. They needed to provide regulators with robust evidence of the dam's stability to build confidence in the asset's value and secure investment. To address this, they turned to Rezatec and its Dam Monitoring geospatial AI product.

Rezatec's solution provided the City with long-term trending data to detect minute, non-visible movements and monitor vegetation growth. This data supplied the solid evidence needed to satisfy FERC inquiries, proving areas like the rip rap were not moving. The insights from Rezatec helped the team focus maintenance resources, prioritize spending, and justify spreading rehabilitation costs over several years, ultimately building investment confidence for the public entity.

City of Spokane