System for monitoring discharges into a waste water collection system

A method for forecasting the composition of influx water received in a Waste Water Treatment Plant (WWTP) comprising the steps of:

• providing a means for monitoring water condition data quality and water flow rate on-site at individual waste water treatment sites remotely located from the WWTP which are constructed and arranged to discharge streams into the water collection system processed by the WWTP, said means to monitor water condition data being operable to derive raw sensor data including time-stamped and location specific information on the flow rate and composition of said discharge streams in association with a unique identifier corresponding to a particular waste water treatment site;
• providing at least one communications means operable to transmit said raw sensor data via Internet technology to a remote location;
• providing at least one software-implemented database configured to receive said sensor data transmitted by said communications means;
• providing at least one software-implemented web server configured to interface with said at least one database allowing said data to be accessed from a remotely-located client computer via Internet technology;
• transmitting the raw sensor data via Internet technology to the at least one database;
• storing the data and unique identifier in the at least one database where it can be asynchronously accessed through the at least one Web server;
• analyzing the location-specific flow rate data and composition data transmitted from one or a plurality of particular waste water treatment sites based on known water flow patterns to calculate a predicted composition and flow rate of the water arriving at the WWTP as a function of time;
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• manipulating the raw data and analyzed data into an analysis result and a report result accessible from a remotely-located client computer via the software-implemented Web server.