In September of 2013, the Hampton Roads Sanitation District (HRSD), a regional wastewater treatment utility, selected Milestone Communications to build wireless towers on treatment plant and administrative sites to support HRSD's supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) network. The project is now in its final stages, with towers completed at nine treatment plants and three operations centers throughout the HRSD service area--an area that covers 17 cities and counties in southeast Virginia.
 

From left to right: Milestone Director of Business Development Jennifer Bond, Milestone President Len Forkas, HRSD General Manager Ted Henifin, HRSD Chief of Design & Construction David Cooley.

HRSD is building a new SCADA network to comply with the Clean Water Act with UHF antennas that will facilitate communications between its various pump stations and operations centers. This will streamline services and provide increased control over pumps--essentially tying all of the components together in one powerful network. The towers will also be used to build a microwave wide area network (WAN) that will link all the facilities. In the initial agreement, Milestone agreed to fund and build the towers for SCADA with colocation potential to support equipment from commercial wireless carriers in the future.

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