b'CASE STUDYBrush Creek Wastewater: From Manual Headaches to Predictive ConfidenceTurn Overwhelmed Operatorsinto Empowered Problem Solvers Today, Brush Creek Wastewater isnt just At the Brush Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant in Cranberrycompliant, theyre ahead of the curve. Township, Pennsylvania, the operations team was fighting an uphillAnomalies are caught instantly, thanks to battle every day, drowning in data but starved of insight. color-coded alerts that flag out-of-thresholdEach shift generated hundreds of data points across compliancedata in real time.reports, lab testing, chemical dosing, and process control. ButChemical use is optimized, saving money while with everything logged in static spreadsheets, connecting themaintaining compliance.dots required hours of manual work and guesswork. Spotting an anomaly meant catching it after it became a problem. MaintenanceRegression analysis tools help the team identify was reactive. Chemical usage was often based on historicalroot causes instead of symptoms, transforming patterns, not real-time needs. The plant was doing its best, but theguesswork into certainty.system itself was working against them.The team didnt need more data. They needed better ways to use it.Custom dashboards give everyone, from the lab technician to the plant manager, a personalized The Turning Point: Seeing Data Differently window into exactly what matters most to them.The operations team no longer waits for problemsThe transformation began in 2012 with the implementation of Hachto appear. Instead, they see them coming. WIMS, a centralized platform purpose-built for environmental data. Suddenly, operators could break free from the tangle of spreadsheets and tap into a system that tracked, trended, and visualized information in ways that made sense, quickly. Having the ability to organize data and display it side-by-side makes it much But the real shift came in 2018, when Brush Creek added WIMS Rio.easier to compare variable relationships. This mobile-first layer gave the team real-time power in the field. DataIt helps us troubleshoot issues before they was now captured directly at the sourceon rounds, in labs, across processesand synced immediately into WIMS. become problems.Together, these tools formed a live feedback loop betweenBRUSH CREEK WASTEWATER OPERATIONS TEAMoperators, management, and the plants processes.'