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Blockage & Overflow Alarms

Level alarms and continuous depth monitoring that warn of blockages and surcharges before they become overflows.

Blockages and surcharges give warning if something is watching. EDS deploys level monitoring through sewer networks that alerts crews to rising wastewater depth, so utilities can react quickly to a blockage, or a surcharge caused by a sewer collapse, before it becomes a spill.

Detectronic's LIDoTT ALARM puts a radar level sensor, battery, modem and aerial into one Zone 0 certified device, suited to deployment throughout sewer networks and in domestic or lateral sewers.

Where flow meters are already installed, the data does the watching too. A steady rise in depth with no rain to explain it points to a developing blockage or sediment build-up, often long before field crews would report it.

How it works

Three alarm statesThresholds such as normal, high and high-high are configured on site, with a message when levels return to normal.
Alarms that reach peopleDelivered by SMS, email and website, with GIS options and optional weather-managed alarm filtering.
Daily heartbeatA daily message confirms each sensor is still operational.
Long life, zero maintenanceBattery life of up to seven years, in a submersible, naturally self-cleaning enclosure.
Depth watched against flowOn metered sites, FlowSense Blockage Watch looks for depth creeping upward while flow does not, and gives crews a shortlist.

What it helps you catch

  • Blockages in main, domestic and lateral sewers
  • Surcharges caused by sewer collapses
  • Sediment build-up, cleared before the next storm
  • Partial obstructions, sags and displaced joints
  • Rising risk of a wet weather overflow

Try it

Raise the water. Watch the alarm.

Drag the water level
High 2.0 m High-high 3.0 m Ground level
What the utility sees
2.90Radar range m
± 5Accuracy mm
NormalThree configurable states: normal, high, high-high.

An illustration of the alarm behaviour. Thresholds are set on site during installation.

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