Sterling, VA, March 5, 2002 -- Sutron announced that it has received a 5- year contract to manage a Flow Monitoring and Rating Development Project for the South Florida Water Management District, covering the following areas: Stormwater Treatment Area's (STA's), Coastal Structures, the EAA, Lake Okeechobee, and Kissimmee River area.
Sutron and its partners will provide highly specialized services in the areas of stream flow data acquisition and evaluation, flow estimation method evaluation, and rating development. The South Florida Water Management District is comprised of a 16 county area from central Florida's Kissimmee River to Lake Okeechobee, and from coast to coast, spanning the peninsula from Fort Myers to Fort Pierce, south through the Everglades to Florida Bay.
In December 2001 Steve Tarte, VP, opened the company's first Florida office to establish Sutron's Hydrological Services Division. Over the last 12 years Tarte has worked extensively with the South Florida Water Management District as well as the other WMD's and the US Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District.
Sutron's new offices in Florida will emphasize the collection of hydrometric data, hydrologic investigations, meteorologic data collection, stream discharge collection and the installation and maintenance of monitoring stations for the collection of surface water levels, groundwater levels, and water quality data. Sutron's HSD can be reached at (813) 334-9914.
Sutron is a major supplier of real-time environmental remote monitoring and control systems for several Federal Agencies, including the US Geological Survey, the National Ocean Service, a division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Army Corps of Engineers, and the National Weather Service.
For 26 years Sutron designed and manufactured communications equipment that has been operating unattended in remote, inhospitable places and under the most extreme environmental conditions on the planet. With over 25,000 environmental monitoring stations presently in operation globally, Sutron is a major worldwide supplier of real-time data collection systems that include telemetry, hydrometric sensors, and data management software.
