Implementing a Contamination Warning System at a Department of Defense Facility: Case Study — Port Hueneme, California

The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Engineering Service Center (NAVFAC ESC) in Port Hueneme, California is in the final stage of the development and implementation of a Contamination Warning System (CWS) Pilot Program, culminating a 3-year effort. The purpose of the pilot program is to demonstrate the multiple benefits associated with a CWS, and it will serve as a model for other Department of Defense facilities. The CWS will include real-time online water quality monitoring (OWQM) stations at multiple locations in the water distribution system. The OWQM stations will provide continuous data for pH, chlorine residual, turbidity, conductivity, total organic carbon, dissolved organic carbon, and ultraviolet/visual spectral imagery (200 to 700 nm). OWQM technologies that will be evaluated as part of the pilot program include the s::can spectro::lyzer^TM, s::can ammo::lyzer^TM, the Analytical Technologies (ATI) Water Quality Panel (for pH, free chlorine residual, conductivity, and turbidity), ATI mono-chloramine analyzer, the Hach Q45WQ Water Quality Panel (also for pH, free chlorine residual, conductivity, and turbidity), and the Intelletect Intellisonde^TM (pH, free chlorine, mono chlorine, turbidity, conductivity, color, pressure, temperature, and flow).