INDUSTRY CASE STUDY:
WATER & WASTEWATER TREATMENT UTILITIES

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Industry Challenge

Our communities and the environment that they thrive in are dependent on clean and safe potable water.  Water purification and sewer treatment provide an essential life element to a community and are an important part of protecting and preserving a community’s water resources. Water and sewer systems include the facilities for treating and purifying water and the engineered assets used to convey water from one point to another.  Unfortunately, water and wastewater treatment failures do occur and when it does facility owners must mobilize quickly to communicate the potential risk to the public and to restore service as quickly as possible.These sophisticated systems are dependent upon the standard operating procedures and plans that are regularly maintained, trained upon, and exercised.   

Odysseus Solutions

Odysseus Offers a Programmatic Solution for water and wastewater treatment systems.

Odysseus™ | kms

The Odysseus™|KMS provides power water and wastewater treatment systems with a central repository where plans, common operating procedures, and compliance reports can be accessed and shared across the utility.  The secure yet flexible virtual collaborative environment allows for the efficient development, maintenance, and update of planning doctrine.
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ODYSSEUS™ | CPM

The Odysseus™|Compliance Metric Tools are a data-driven, assessment that allows water and wastewater treatment systems owners the ability to systematically evaluate the compliance to various governmental and industry recognized programs. 

ODYSSEUS™ | AAT

The Odysseus™ | AAT offers water and wastewater treatment systems the ability to develop customized assessment tools that can be used to evaluate, assess, and understand the progress and trends of key programs and initiatives.

ODYSSEUS™ | cbt

​The Odysseus™|CBT allows for the delivery and tracking of learning across the Odysseus™ enterprise. Your programs, courses and exercises can be harmonized with key utility planning and program efforts while facilitating your strategy to deliver training and exercise content to your target audience.

Featured Best Practices

• Planning & Reporting
• Training
• Exercises
• Compliance Metrics
• Participation
• Committee Management

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Planning & Reporting

The Odysseus™ | KMS gives planners an online tool dedicated to the development and maintenance of various water and wastewater treatment plans and regulatory reporting requirements required by the US Environmental Protection Agency and other regulatory requirements.  Odysseus™|KMS offers planners and compliance officers with the unique feature of providing standardization and flexibility in a collaborative environment.  This union greatly increases a water and wastewater treatment system's ability to manage and coordinate the design, development, and maintenance of reporting and planning requirements.  

Customized Courses & Training Management

The Odysseus™|CBT plug-in provides organizations with an integrated learning management system that allows facility compliance offers to more effectively deliver and measure understanding of important regulatory requirements across the Odysseus™ enterprise.  Odysseus™|CBT provides a platform to deliver and manage customized computer-based training, track course assessments, award certificates upon course completion, and in-depth reporting of learner progress and understanding. 

Simulated Testing & Exercise Scenarios

Designed from the Odysseus™|CBT framework, the Odysseus™ Exercise Simulator incorporates cutting-edge media technology to  deliver an interactive, best practice solution to accurately test and validate emergency water and wastewater system response and restoration procedures, while effectively engaging participants in important tests and exercises.  Exercise designers can build an interactive environment that allows users to visualize operational scenarios and experience real-world crisis decision-making. The Odysseus™ Exercise Simulator provides an easy-to-use, turnkey solution to accurately test and validate operational and programmatic strategies, while engaging stakeholders and impressing your organization's leadership.

Environmental Compliance Assessments

Designed from the Odysseus™|AAT architecture, the Odysseus platform offers a customized compliance assessments tools that is consistent with the regulatory requirements and guidelines of the US Environmental Protection Agency and industry standards.  Regulatory compliance officers can assess their program's compliance and integrate the results into their existing reporting and planning framework. 

Community Participation and Awareness

The Odysseus™ enterprise offers a variety of tools that can be used to efficiently engage residents and community partners, and solicit their participation in the planning process. Customized Odysseus™|CBT interactive planning participation module allows committee members, stakeholders, and the public to learn about current programs and provide real-time feedback and input in important environmental matters. Customized Odysseus™|AAT survey instruments allows community partners and residents provide input in the planning process and inform the management strategies of the water and wastewater treatment systems. 

Committee Management

In today’s environment of fiscal efficiency, limited availability of resources, and the necessity to balance competing demands, it is imperative that the engagement of assigned work groups and key stakeholders is efficient and effective. The committee management tool within the Odysseus™|KMS will assist in documenting the planning process, provide a method of on-going committee collaboration, offer an archival repository of planning meeting minutes and information, and ensure the active participation of committee members and key stakeholders throughout the life-cycle of the planning process.