Water / Water Quality

What We Do

Campbell Scientific builds systems for unattended, long-term monitoring of water quality in many natural and industrial environments, including streams, watersheds, wells, caves, water/wastewater treatment plants, aquaculture operations, landfills, and processing plants. Our systems include Campbell data loggers, and a huge variety of water quality sensors and communication peripherals, customized for each application. Learn more

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Customise a System

In addition to our standard systems available, many of the systems we provide are customised. Tell us what you need, and we’ll help you configure a system that meets your exact needs.

Instrumentation

We offer a variety of products that can be used to create systems for Water Quality. Many of the major components used to create these systems are listed below. Please let us know if we can help you configure a system.

More Details about Our Water Quality Systems

Data Loggers Used in Water Quality Monitoring

Our data loggers feature wide operating temperature ranges, low power consumption, and the ability to directly interface with a large variety of sensors. Because our dataloggers operate on batteries (with or without solar panels), they are ideal for long-term, stand-alone operation, such as at remote streams or wells. Most of our data loggers are expandable using multiplexers and other peripherals. Data are typically displayed and stored in the desired units of measure (e.g., specific conductance as mS/m, µS/cm, Ohms).

Powerful on-board instruction sets allow unattended control decisions based on time or conditional events. For example, if measured water quality levels are outside a predetermined range, the data logger can actuate water samplers, sound alarms, open valves, actuate injectors, and make a phone call to report conditions. The data loggers can easily provide the necessary water sampler control to meet EPA-mandated first-flush and follow-up sample schedules. All data is time-stamped and data from event-triggered samples is marked for later analysis.

Water Quality Sensors

Almost any sensor, individual or multiparameter, may be used with the system, allowing the system to be customized for each application. We helped create the original SDI-12 standard, so you can be sure our systems are SDI-12 compatible. In addition, nearly all available flow, level, and meteorological sensors can be measured, generally without external signal conditioning.

Communications

The availability of multiple telecommunications and on-site options for retrieving data also allows systems to be customized to meet exact needs. Options include: voice-synthesized phone, telephone, cellphone, satellite, radio, ethernet, short haul, meteor burst, coaxial cable, and storage module. Systems can be programmed to send alarms or report site conditions by calling out to computers, phones, radios, or pagers. Real-time or historical data can be displayed or processed with Campbell Scientific software. Data can also be exported as ASCII files for further processing by spreadsheets, databases, or analysis programs.

Case Studies

Australia: Coastal Water-Quality Monitoring
The Port of Townsville Limited (POTL) are undertaking the Channel Upgrade Project (CU Project). The......read more
South Africa: Launch of an Innovative Science Facility with Sustainable Technology
The Department of Science and Innovation (DSI) and its partners, including the Department of Basic......read more
South Africa: Transforming a Polluted River
The Jukskei River is one of the largest rivers in Johannesburg, South Africa. The river......read more
Maryland: Aquaculture Lab Alarm System
Steve Rodgers is the lab manager at the Aquaculture Research Center of the Institute of......read more
Maryland: Aquaculture Lab Alarm System
Steve Rodgers is the lab manager at the Aquaculture Research Center of the Institute of......read more
Australia: Sugarcane Soil Nutrient Monitoring
The Silkwood sugarcane water-quality monitoring site was established in 2014 as part of the Paddock......read more
New Hampshire: Collecting Data from Experimental Forest
The Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest (HBEF), located in the White Mountain National Forest of central......read more
New Jersey: Pequest Trout Hatchery
Moving clean, cold water through a trout-rearing facility is essential to its success. A live......read more

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