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Council approves emergency SCADA/PLC upgrade at wastewater plant after repeated equipment failures
Summary
After multiple recent SCADA/PLC failures and six service call-ins in a single week, council approved use of reserves to upgrade the wastewater plant's SCADA and PLC systems; staff said replacement was planned for early 2026 but failures accelerated the schedule.
City staff reported persistent SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) and PLC (programmable logic controller) failures at the wastewater treatment plant and asked the council to approve payment to replace the failing equipment now rather than in the originally planned 2026 timeline.
Staff (Matt) told the council the city had saved $150,000 in 2024 and $150,000 in 2025 toward a planned SCADA/PLC project, but “we are three months short” and have had multiple recent failures. Matt said the plant experienced a surge in failures over the past…
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