Protecting monitoring sites from lightning damage is an important consideration for equipment and stations that are deployed in areas that are prone to lightning strikes.

Lightning that does not directly strike a site may still cause damage by traveling through the ground and into buried sensors or cable. Proper planning for such events can help reduce the risk of lost data or expensive equipment replacement and site downtime.

Continue reading to find out several ways to help protect your systems from potentially damaging and costly lightning strikes.

Join Stevens Water next month at the AWRA 2011 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Find Stevens at Booth #12 in the exhibit hall, where we will be showing plenty of exciting products including the Stevens DL3000 data logger, the Hydra Probe II Soil Sensor, as well as new items such as the DTS-12 Turbidity Sensor and the complete line of Schlumberger Water Services Diver water level and quality sensors.

Schlumberger Water Services will also be exhibiting in the booth next to Stevens, so this will be a perfect opportunity to learn how the Diver product line can be integrated into your new or existing Stevens system. We look forward to seeing you at the show!

Stevens Water Monitoring Systems, Inc. is pleased to announce the introduction of the FTS DTS-12 Digital Turbidity Sensor into Stevens’ existing family of water quality sensors, adding a new option for turbidity-only measurement.

Designed exclusively for turbidity and temperature monitoring, the DTS-12 features high-quality optical turbidity monitoring combined with a built-in microprocessor for high-accuracy bulk turbidity data that is repeatable between sensors.

The DTS-12 offers ±2% accuracy for readings between 0 - 499 NTU, and ±4% for readings of 500 - 1,600 NTU. No special logger programming is necessary, as the DTS-12 does all calculations in-sensor before providing the final data.

To learn more about the new DTS-12, read the press release on the Stevens Water website.

An original 1926 “Leupold, Volpel & Co.” Type A Chart Recorder, on display at the Stevens office.

Stevens Water is celebrating our 100 year anniversary this year, and we are incredibly proud of our legacy in the water resource monitoring market.

What is your oldest piece of Stevens equipment that is still operational?

This can include equipment branded with “Leupold, Volpel & Co.”, “Leupold & Stevens”, or “Stevens Water Monitoring Systems”.

Please send entries to info@stevenswater.com, and be sure to include a description and any photos you may have. We would like to feature unique instruments in a future article, and we’ll have fun Stevens gifts for the customers with the oldest instruments!