Dam Installation

Installations

Water Quality Monitoring

Barker Slough Water Quality QuB.

Dam Monitoring

Santa Clara Valley Water District (SCVWD) dam monitoring.

Water Quality and Batch Load Monitoring

Nestle Waters North America (NWNA)

Remote Water Quality Monitoring

Shasta Big Springs Ranch, located in Siskiyou County, California

Integrated Slope Monitoring

Taiwan Power Company, TsinChu, Taiwan.

Tanker Tracking and Event Monitoring

Monitor water tanker events and water quality for drinking water collected from remote spring sites.

Creek Level Monitoring Systems

The City of Vacaville located in Solano County in Northern California.

Water Flow Monitoring System

Integrated systems to measure flow in diversions via pumps or irrigation canals, as well as reservoir storage volumes.

For over 20 years, Eyasco has installed numerous monitoring systems in various remote locations. Our systems are custom built for each location and data collection requirements. Water management operations, civic, government, military, agriculture, conservatories, fish and wildlife, are a few of our customers. From data to desktop, we provide reliable monitoring systems for easy access to your data.

In an effort to upgrade aging dam monitoring systems, Santa Clara Valley Water District (SCVWD) contracted Eyasco Inc. in 2015 to install its EmbankNET system at several of its dam sites, including Almaden, Guadalupe, Anderson, and Calero dam. The system is an important part of SCVWD’s Dam Safety Program as it provides actionable data during and after rain storms and seismic events.

The EmbankNET system stations, called ‘QuBs’ are built by Eyasco from monitoring components manufactured by Campbell Scientific and spread-spectrum radios manufactured by Freewave Radios.

Each monitoring station is designed to read vibrating wire piezometers (VWP) and/or In-place Inclinometers (IPI), communicate via radio and be powered by a 30-watt unbreakable solar panel. Error trapping and retries are built into the programming scheme for maximum communications reliability. A point-to-multipoint deployment is utilized with some radios configured as slave/repeaters to act as a link between two or more stations that would otherwise be unable to communicate due to extended distances and/ or impeding obstacles.

Merlin consolidates the acquired monitoring data and provides a number of tools for viewing, analysis and reporting.

Scheduled Reports, User Initiated Reports, Seismic Triggered Reports

Each dam site contains a Network Master station which is responsible for triggering periodic measurement events from VWP and IPI stations, and collecting the measurement data. It also hosts a web page that displays real time measurement information and alarm indicators that can be accessed over the satellite link. Seismic triggers are used to initiate higher sampling periods in the event of an earthquake.

Data stored on the Host is forwarded to SCVWD headquarters via a satellite modem and is stored and managed by Eyasco’s Merlin software. A suite of reports – both user initiated and scheduled – are used to evaluate sensor data and system performance, and to comply with California State DSOD reporting requirements.