How City of Conroe Scaled Water Operations for Rapid Growth

How City of Conroe Scaled Water Operations for Rapid Growth

Key Highlights

- Conroe standardized automation across 19 rapidly growing water plants.

- Automated reporting saves operators more than 50 hours every week.

- Proactive alerts help address issues before customers experience service interruptions.

- Standardized systems reduced recovery time after faults by up to 80%.

- Reusable engineering enables faster, more consistent water plant deployment.

By Schneider Electric

Growth that demands a new approach

Over the past two decades, the City of Conroe, Texas, grew from about 30,000 residents to more than 115,000. That expansion created an urgent infrastructure challenge: increase water capacity quickly while continuing to deliver reliable service to every home and business. Where the city once built one water plant every five years, it now constructs four annually. Its system has expanded from four plants to 19, supported by approximately 1,200 miles of water and sewer pipe.

The limits of manual, proprietary systems

Conroe had relied on proprietary supervisory control and data acquisition systems that became harder to support as technologies aged and vendors moved on. Operators ...