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Watershed runoff monitoring usualy involves severa standard pieces of equipment.  Here we provide a snapshot of a project headed by Penn State University at Shaver's Creek Environmental Center. The equipment used includes:  automatic samplers, combination pressure…

Openchannelflow is please to announce that Midwest Municipal Instrumentation has entered into full-line representation agreement for the State of Michigan and northwestern Ohio. MMI specializes in process control and instrumentation and actively services the municipal and…

One problem that we see again and again is how to measure open channel flow in partially full pipes.  For applications where a device can extend off the end of the pipe a number of solutions are used, including:  California pipe (which is extends  vertically up…

Recently an industrial customer of Openchannelflow installed one of our fiberglass Packaged Metering Manholes and documented the steps involved in its installation. The Packaged Metering Manhole is located next to the customer’s loading docks, so a traffic loaded (H-20) top…

Parshall flumes are a class of short throated flumes.  Originally developed in the 1920's, the Parshall flume has become the most researched style of flume leading to its wide acceptance and use in a variety of applications.  In North America, the Parshall flume is…