Director asks Cordele City Council to replace water management system: “It no longer has any support and is very outdated”

Director of Utilities Treatment Debbie Wright told the Cordele Commission during its Nov. 3 meeting that the City needed a new SCADA system. With a system taking 8-12 weeks for its arrival, Debbie Wright urged them to order it quickly. City Commissioner Joe Joe Wright made a motion that they get the system, which died for a lack of a second. The Council decided place the purchase of the system on the agenda for the next meeting. Debbie Wright gave an approximate cost of $250,000 for the system to be installed at 6 wells, 5 water tanks, 7 lift stations, and 1 wastewater treatment plant. Wright explained to the Cordele Dispatch what the system was and what made it so important. “It is a SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) System. It transmits a signal that tells the wells to come on and cut off by the level of water that is in the different tanks. Our current system is very old and has to be replaced.

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