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By choosing the appropriate technology, location and siting conditions to measure rainfall, you’re giving yourself the best chance at accurate data for expensive sewer system rehabilitation decisions.
When a city is facing inflow and infiltration issues, expensive sewer system rehabilitation decisions often involve the use of rainfall data. In those cases, it’s important you’re doing everything you can to ensure the accuracy of that data.
Rainfall-derived I&I prediction can be greatly obstructed by imprecise precipitation data, often due to improper rain gauge density, inadequate gauge siting, equipment malfunction or data collection errors. By choosing the right rain...
