Water control and management is a concept that has been applied by man almost since the beginnings of civilization; first, developed when Egyptians found it necessary to divert the life-giving waters of the Nile River onto their fields and crops. Since much of Egypt received insufficient rainfall to sustain food crops, it was absolutely […]
Watch Technologies Replacing 12 Tainter (Radial) Gates for American Dam
Watch Technologies is replacing 12 gates for the American Dam on the Rio Grande River and the American Canal, which divert flow to the Rio Grande Basin. The 12 gates weigh on average 10,000 pound each. 10 of the gates are 20′ wide and 7′ tall, and two gates are 20′ wide and 11′ tall. […]
Watch Technologies Supplies 20 Water Management Control Sites to Iraq
The Iraq Ministries of Technology and Water Resources Management hired Watch Technologies to provide a system of 20 control sites to monitor and control irrigation water discharge flow. The project was shipped 100% complete with Watch Technologies’ products, including Sensors, Smart Sluice Gates, Radio Telemetry System, and Base Station. Watch Technologies’ set interactive Internet software […]
Watch Technologies Selected to Install Large Irrigation Control System in New Zealand
GRANTS PASS, OREGON – MARCH 27, 2012 – Bosch Irrigation Limited has selected Watch Technologies to provide an internet-based control system to monitor and control the flow of water to 55 farms from a new pipeline in Ashburton, New Zealand. Watch Technologies (WT) will install 70 RTUs (Remote Terminal Units) to collect, monitor, and distribute […]
Watch Technologies Equipment Featured in The Nature Conservancy for Automating Ditch Systems on Verde River
Story Highlights: Download a pdf of the article The Verde River is the lifeblood of central Arizona, supplying water to farms, yards and gardens, and drinking water and recreation opportunities to thousands. Now, the Conservancy, working with a local ditch company, has instituted an automated ditch irrigation system that will efficiently deliver water to landowners […]
Irrigation Diversion Modification Project, Coleman Creek, Ellensburg, WA
This project removes a fish passage barrier─a concrete structure used to divert water from Coleman Creek for irrigation and replaces it with a side-channel diversion into a flume that controls diverted water through a fish screen and into the lead irrigation system technologies will install an automated three-gate system to manage the diversion, monitor flow […]
