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MWH Soft Releases InfoSewer V7 with Significantly Enhanced
Modeling Functionalities and Reporting Capabilities

Broomfield, Colorado USA, February 8, 2010 — MWH Soft, a leading global innovator of wet infrastructure modeling and simulation software and technologies, today announced the worldwide availability of the V7 Generation of InfoSewer for ArcGIS (Esri, Redlands, CA) platform. InfoSewer has helped define the standard in the industry for GIS-centric sanitary sewer network modeling and design since 2003. This seventh version of the software introduces key enhancements requested by customers that increase engineering productivity; improve network analysis and design; and enhance the visualization, comprehension, management and assessment of modeling results.

Certified by the National Association of GIS-centric Software, InfoSewer is a powerful ArcGIS-centric software for use in planning, designing, analyzing, and expanding sanitary, storm and combined sewer collection systems. It can be effectively used to model both dry-weather and wet-weather flows and determine the most cost-effective and reliable method of wastewater collection. Built atop ArcGIS, InfoSewer enables engineers and GIS professionals to work simultaneously on the same integrated platform, commanding powerful geospatial analysis and hydraulic modeling in a single environment using a single dataset.

InfoSewer is used worldwide by municipal engineers and planners to create detailed, accurate models of their sewer infrastructure systems. These models enable users to evaluate the effect of new developments, zoning changes, and other additional loads on system flows; pinpoint current and future problem areas; predict overflows and backups; and determine how to best restore needed capacity lost to infiltration and inflow with the least rehabilitation. In addition, users rely on these models to compute hydrogen sulfide generation and corrosion potential; analyze the rate of Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) exertion; track sediment movement and deposition; trace pollutant contribution from source nodes, perform time of concentration pipe calculations; calculate the amount of pollutant transported to the wastewater treatment plant; and assess pollutants’ impacts on receiving waters. Extensive scenario management functionality enables the analysis of existing or future sewer collection systems. The application also provides vital tools for meeting and exceeding environmental regulations and improving community relations via database queries and map displays.

The new InfoSewer V7 delivers advanced design functionality and exponential increases in efficiency while simplifying use, and improves speed and reliability by using memory more efficiently when working with large models. In addition to refinements throughout, users can now quickly and reliably design new sewer collection systems that consider standard design criteria such as flow depth-to-pipe diameter ratios, velocity, slope, soil cover depth, and pipe crown drop. Using user-input manhole locations and rules, InfoSewer V7 calculates the optimal pipe and slope, invert elevation of conduits and manholes, soil cover depths at both ends of each pipe section, and cost of excavation and reinstatement to meet target design criteria. Results can be reviewed using profile plots with advanced labeling of 30 node and link variables, color coded sewer maps of these variables, or 20 comprehensive tabular reports. The profile plots can be automatically updated in the model database for steady state and extended period simulations of new and existing designs, greatly simplifying the model building process. Together, these important modeling capabilities will help wastewater utilities worldwide dramatically raise productivity and efficiency by rapidly developing practical and optimal capital improvement strategies that minimize costs while improving system reliability, integrity and performance. By making engineering professionals more productive and their organizations more competitive, InfoSewer V7 delivers benefits utilities can pass on to their customers through better designs and higher quality standards, achieved in a shorter turnaround time.