Kentucky’s Largest Wastewater Utility Selects Software For Sewerage Modeling

Innovyze announced that its InfoWorks ICM software was selected by the Louisville and Jefferson County Metropolitan Sewer District (MSD) to fulfill its sewerage and drainage modeling requirements within its combined sewer system. MSD is Kentucky’s largest municipal wastewater utility and is responsible for a wastewater collection, storm water drainage and flood protection system that serves almost three-quarters of a million people.

“Our system is large and complex, and planning accurately for new infrastructure to achieve overflow reduction and flood relief can be difficult,” said Justin Gray, senior engineer at MSD. “We are continually seeking out the best technology, and InfoWorks ICM gives us the most powerful option for planning and analyzing the surface and subsurface interactions that are inherent with a combined storm water and sanitary sewer system.”

The software enables integrated catchment modeling on a platform that incorporates both urban and river catchments. Full integration of 1-D and 2-D hydrodynamic modeling techniques enables users to model above- and below-ground elements of these catchments with flexibility and detail, greatly enhancing the ability of wastewater utilities to predict flood risks, support cost-effective drainage design and management, develop online urban flooding forecasts, and more. Multiple simulations can be scheduled across a pool of workstations with results returned to a single location.

Source: Innovyze