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It isn’t always desirable or practical to measure industrial effluent flows below grade. For those applications, Openchannelflow takes our proven Redstone fiberglass enclosures and nests a flow-measuring flume or mag meter. Lockable, rugged, and secure, Redstone enclosures…

To give our shelter / building and enclosure products superior strength and dimensional stability, Openchannelflow has developed proprietary X-Web technology.

Whether you call them buildings, shelters, or enclosures, pre-engineered structures from Openchannelflow offer superior walk-in protection of equipment and process machinery for even the harshest of conditions. Fiberglass buildings used in a wide range of applications, including:

While many automatic wastewater samplers on the market today tout NEMA 4X housings, the need to house and protect them has not gone away. Whether the need is to protect the sampler from vandalism or the corrosive effects of a treatment plant environment, Fiberglass Sampler…

To protect flumes in above ground applications, Openchannelflow has developed a range of Fiberglass Enclosures that factory integrate small flow measuring flumes. The turnkey design allows the unit to be dropped in place and requires little in the way of site preparation.

Where a walk-in fiberglass shelter or building is more than an installation calls for, but where all-weather equipment protection is needed, Openchannelflow offers the Gemini equipment enclosure. Originally designed to house the Teledyne 4700 / 5800 series of refrigerated…

The Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1948 was the first major U.S. law to address water pollution. Growing public awareness and concern for controlling water pollution led to sweeping amendments in 1972. As amended in 1972, the law became commonly known as the Clean Water…

For industries required to measure and / or sample their effluents prior to discharging to a municipal sewer system or surface water, finding sufficient area to install a primary device can be a struggle. In many instances, it is difficult to find a site that provides sufficient…

Traditionally flumes are used to measure at or below grade flows. These flow are commonly natural channels (gullies, swales, creeks, streams, and rivers) or manmade channels (treatment plants or storm drains) / piping. For these applications the flume can either be cast in place…

Openchannelflow is pleased to announce the release of our new line of Redstone Series Fiberglass Enclosures to house monitoring equipment and provided secure storage of chemicals and equipment. Redstone Series enclosures are designed to be aesthetically pleasing and blend into…

Custom fiberglass enclosure to house a composite sampler in a difficult location USAF - Vandenberg AFB / Pillar Point AFS / Tetra-Tech (San Luis Obispo)

Green roofs have grown in popularity in the US in the past decade. Popularized in Germany begining in the 1960's, green roofs have shown to provide benefits to the building owners and society as a whole. From a municipal standpoint, green roofs offer a number of advantages,…