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  • Smart Slide Gates – Critical for Efficient Water Management

    By Jack Goldwasser | June 17, 2024

    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 necessary […]

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  • Watch Technologies Replacing 12 Tainter (Radial) Gates for American Dam

    By Jack Goldwasser | February 13, 2024

    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. […]

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  • Watch Technologies Supplies 20 Water Management Control Sites to Iraq

    By Jack Goldwasser | February 4, 2023

    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 […]

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  • Watch Technologies Selected to Install Large Irrigation Control System in New Zealand

    By Jack Goldwasser | February 1, 2014

    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 […]

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  • Watch Technologies Equipment Featured in The Nature Conservancy for Automating Ditch Systems on Verde River

    By Jack Goldwasser | January 5, 2014

    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 […]

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  • Irrigation Diversion Modification Project, Coleman Creek, Ellensburg, WA

    By Jack Goldwasser | January 4, 2014

    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 […]

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  • Flood and Irrigation Canal Control Gate Project, Rogue River Valley Irrigation District, Medford, OR

    By Jack Goldwasser | January 4, 2014

    This project will replace wooden check boards used to backup water in a major flood canal running adjacent to a major intersection in Medford. The flood canal must remain full to charge an irrigation canal. During significant rainfall events, the flood canal is not usable because it is blocked and so much water is stored […]

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  • Software Solutions

    By Jack Goldwasser | December 13, 2013

    SCADA HMI Software HMI (Human Machine Interface) software is used to provide a graphical interface between an operator and a network of sensors and control devices deployed in the field. It can include the entire program for operating the SCADA system, including communications, or be an adjunct to a Master RTU (Remote Terminal Unit) that […]

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  • Installation Expertise

    By Jack Goldwasser | December 13, 2013

    Installation Expertise WT has installed remote monitoring and control systems for 26 years in locations ranging from major cities and Naval Reserve Fleets around the United States, to remote villages in Central America, the Yukon River, and Alpine lakes in Alaska. If the site can be reached, WT guarantees successful data acquisition systems; the system […]

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  • Water flow management equipment

    By Jack Goldwasser | August 13, 2013

    Find out what’s happening with the water with WT’s groundwater water flow management equipment To find out where the water is going, one needs to monitor diversions from surface water such as streams and rivers, and groundwater such as wells, along the way the water is traveling. In order to conserve or manage water, it […]

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