AWWA CSC91086

The Detroit (Michigan) Water & Sewerage Department's (DWSD) has a patchwork computerized control system with applications borrowed from other city departments or adopted for specific needs. The department is now evaluating the benefits and drawbacks of integrating and electronically interfacing all of its management information systems and real-time process control systems, both new and existing. The department needs: interfaces and integration between the department's business information and engineering systems; interfaces with new, real- time process control and business information and engineering systems; interfaces and integration between the department's information systems and other city systems; and sharing of process control information with the various suburban communities that the department serves. The department's intent is to deploy systems that are no more tightly coupled than necessary to provide the required services. The department's present computing environment is presented in two lists of hardware and software.