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Mission:
To provide safe drinking water to approximately one million citizens living, working or visiting in the District of Columbia, Arlington County, Virginia and the City of Falls Church and its service area.
Company Profile:
In 1859, the Corps of Engineers designed, built and began operating the Washington Aqueduct. Since then, the Corps has significantly expanded and enhanced the capacity and function of the Aqueduct from its original mission of supplying raw river water to a sparsely populated District of Columbia to today’s mission of providing safe drinking water to a much larger and more populous service area.
A division of the Baltimore District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Washington Aqueduct is a federally owned and operated public water supply agency. The two water treatment plants and water quality laboratory located in Washington, DC produce an average of 180 million gallons of water a day for one million residents in Washington, DC, Arlington, VA and Falls Church, VA . The Washington Aqueduct is managed, operated, and maintained twenty-four hours a day, every day, by 165 civilian employees of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The work force consists of engineers, chemists, certified plant operators, skilled tradesmen, laborers and administrative staff.
Sample Master® Pro at Washington Aqueduct:
As a high throughput environmental laboratory, the Washington Aqueduct faced numerous challenges including enhanced regulatory oversight, decreasing costs per test and numerous and required laboratory accreditations. The Washington Aqueduct sought a vendor with LIMS expertise that could provide a turnkey solution to help meet their data management challenges. They chose ATL and Sample Master® Pro LIMS due to their technical expertise and product quality. Sample Master® Pro LIMS offered Washington Aqueduct the ability to track samples, data entry capabilities, sample scheduling functions, QA/QC, electronic data entry, chemical and reagent inventory and personnel and equipment management. Washington Aqueduct also needed to increase productivity and efficiency. These challenges were met through the use of bar coding, instrument integration and specialized software, which offered cost accounting/time tracking features. The Washington Aqueduct’s data management needs have been met successfully with Sample Master® Pro LIMS. Transcription errors have been reduced, data accuracy and throughput have increased and automation gains have been realized.
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Compnay: Washington Aqueduct, Army Corps of Engineers
