Water Mains Flushing

A properly designed flushing programme will remove sediments that have built up over years, before costly, long term remedial measures are necessary.

Northgate Flushing Designer can reduce the time spent on the design stages by 80%, increasing your efficiency and cutting costs.

However, up until now, performing all the calculations for a flushing programme has taken large amounts of staff time, but this is no longer necessary with modern computer power. In addition, even with the best designed flushing programme, there is always going to be an inappropriately parked vehicle that stops staff carrying out the actual flushing. With modern mobile technology, even this can be dealt with by offering an alternative set of topologies.

Northgate Flusing Designer is a powerful solution which guides you through the process of flushing sections of your network, to ensure that water quality is not compromised for your customers.

A well designed flushing programme involves minimising the number of valve operations whilst maximising the length of mains flushed, notifying customers and communicating the works to contractors or staff.

Graham Watts, Senior Operational and Maintenance Design Technician,
South West Water
"Flushing Designer is an example of how intelligent technology can, in the right hands, become a very powerful tool".

Northgate Flushing Designer is intelligent software that understands your network connectivity and calculates the path that water will take through the network when valves and hydrants are operated. Once the area to be flushed has been selected, StruMap Flushing Designer identifies the shortest path from the water input point to each hydrant. You can then review and refine the proposed design to account for local conditions.

Information on the length of pipe flushed, volume of water required and duration of flush are automatically supplied and any parts of the network that have not been flushed are highlighted.

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