BACKGROUND

The Carpinteria Sanitary District (CSD) provides wastewater collection, treatment, and disposal services to residents and businesses in the City of Carpinteria, CA and nearby unincorporated areas in the Carpinteria Valley.

Carpinteria is a small Southern California coastal town, just east of Santa Barbara and northwest of Ventura. The Carpinteria Valley—referred to as “California’s flower basket”—is one of the largest greenhouse hubs, producing millions of dollars in flower sales per year. Some of the state’s most environmentally sensitive areas are located in this fertile valley.

While the City of Carpinteria is home to 20,600 residents, as a regional jobs center, there’s a daily workforce population expansion that exceeds local residents’ numbers.

This quaint seaside tourist destination attracts nearly 900,000 annual visitors and hosts the Avocado Festival, the most prominent event in all of Santa Barbara County with more than 100,000 visitors. CSD is responsible for cleaning and maintaining 42 linear miles of sewer pipeline and approximately 4,300 lower lateral sewers throughout the City of Carpinteria and surrounding areas.

SUMMARY

Cities like Carpinteria can be confident that SmartCover is not only providing ongoing smart sewer monitoring but also the system’s extended battery power and satellite communications bring an extra layer of protection and visibility when a community or neighborhood goes off grid due to a power outage or cell service disruption.

With the SmartCover technology suite, a community is protected during extreme conditions — whether manmade or by mother nature.

Online sewer reports give full visibility in and around infrastructure at the most critical times — BEFORE it becomes an emergency.

SmartCover is widely used by smart utilities for lift station back-up and monitoring when there is a lack of reliable power, telemetry and/or cellular coverage.

Interested in finding out how our SmartCover solutions can work for you? Reach out to sales@smartcoversystems.com or call (855) 291-1980.