Susan Moisio is a project manager for the Metropolitan Sewer District. She is managing a team that is building a $14 million computer model of the county's sewer system.
She's trying to control a 3,000-mile river running underneath Hamilton County by tracking its ebbs and flows on a computer screen.
It's a river of waste. The job of the Metropolitan Sewer District is to try to contain the flow in more than 45,000 pieces of pipe so that raw sewage doesn't spill into the county's waterways or seep into basements during heavy storms.
Moisio's computer model will become an
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essential element in how the sewer district settles a decade-long federal pollution lawsuit. A settlement in the suit may be reached and filed in the next two weeks.
The model could provide a graphic image of water flowing through the pipes in real-time so operators can direct water away from full pipes and avoid spills during storms. It also will point out the best areas to build storage in the system.
Her model will help the system when it's time to build a $10 million sewer system, which is needed because the sewer district is under pressure from the federal government to eliminate overflows.
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2007 McGraw-Hill Higher Education