According to the United States EPA, all water system owners share key responsibilities that are critical to meeting their ultimate goal - providing an adequate and safe supply of drinking water.

They go on to say:

• Annually assess your system's technical, managerial, and financial capacity.
• Ensure that your infrastructure (pumps, pipes, tanks, etc.) are in good working order.
• Determine whether staffing levels are adequate.
• Work with the system operator to ensure that all staff training needs are met.
• Review your systems budget annually to assess whether your system is collecting enough revenue each year to cover costs of operating and maintaining the system.

At Iris Connection, Inc. we have identified several key areas and asked the question;

What does it Cost?

What are your answers to the following questions?

 What does it Cost?

1. For Daily or multiple Site Visits to inspect / review / secure the Water System?
2. When there is a utility power failure, what warning is there? What is the notification of when power is returned to normal?
3. When the utility delivers "dirty" power? Is there a record kept of the power anomaly?
4. When the back up power system fails?
5. When the distribution system pressure drops below safe levels and a complete re-sanitization is required due to the unsafe levels?
6. To be out of compliance of the availability standards?
7. To manage the chlorine injection / reporting system?
8. To log and report chlorine residual?
9. To respond to an alarm?
10. To discover a system failure?
11. To undergo the Health Department review?
12. To not be able to control your system to run during off-peak hours?
13. To not find distribution system leaks?
14. For inefficient delivery systems?
15. To not have sufficient data to analyze the cause of a system failure?
16. To know the water systems status / condition during non-business hours?
17. To know the water system is secure from intruders / vandals?
18. For call outs on Holidays and weekends?
19. To keep the board / decision makers informed about the systems performance?
20. To provide knowledge for the board to make effective decisions?

The cost of owning and operating a public drinking water system comes with many risks and challenges. The question is being continually asked, what does it cost? If we are to remain in compliance with the EPA standard of the ultimate goal - providing an adequate and safe supply of drinking water, we need to ask these questions.

What does it cost? 

Please take a few moments to look at the twenty questions above and put your own value on them.

We know these are just a few of the questions you have about your water system and its operation.

At Iris Connection, Inc. we are dedicated to providing solutions to these and many more questions. Please let us know how we can help. The Watchman System^TM is a solution-based, cost effective system to monitor, control and manage your system. With the Spyglass^TM Data Management tool, all of the data is available in report form or for direct online viewing and exporting.

Visit our web site to find out more or give us a call at: (866) 680-IRIS (4747)