News from the world of Consortia: efficiency of well pumping systems for irrigation use

News from the world of Bonifica Consortia for reclamation, CAE has just won a tender for the execution of "Interventions to improve the efficiency of the management of water pumping systems for irrigation use, aimed at saving water through the implementation of measurement and remote control systems" in management at the Consorzio della Bonifica Parmense. A new and special project for CAE, which concerns the monitoring of data relating to water pumping plants, which serve to extract the water present inside the well, through a submerged pump and a delivery pipe that conveys the water to the outside.

The automatic monitoring network will therefore have the task of detecting the data relating to the flow and volume of water withdrawn from the wells in the pipeline, the groundwater levels and the hydrometric levels of the water collection channels for irrigation use in the different sites of interest, through the turnkey supply of 6 new automatic stations and the updating of 3 existing ones, which will be equipped with the innovative CompactPlus datalogger, WLR radar hydrometers, piezometers and flow meters.

In existing stations, the new sensors will be added to those already installed and to the floodgate interfacing systems. The new data will always be available and viewable on the software systems already in use, indeed, thanks to the primary transmission system via UHF radio, the new stations will be inserted into the existing radio network owned by the Consortium, integrating perfectly with what is already present. In addition, through the 4G module, the secondary transmission backup system, there will be full redundancy of the data communication systems.

The proposed solution will make it possible to carry out constant control over the wells, optimising the management of the pumping systems, with a consequent reduction in energy consumption, and to evaluate actual water consumption, so as to be able to take any useful actions to optimise the correct management of water resources and, consequently, to reduce its wastage, generating savings also in economic terms.

By setting thresholds related to the water level in the receiving channels of the emitted water, it will also be possible to define when and how much water to withdraw, avoiding potential periods of non-use of this precious resource in the channels, whose stagnating would be subject to evaporation and infiltration phenomena, with consequent losses in terms of irrigated water.

This innovative system represents a resilient way to cope with climate change, which is bringing increasingly hot and dry summers, during which it will be essential to be able to preserve water resources by making decisions based on accurate and timely data.

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