Environmental and Water Quality Laboratories
HORIZON LIMS is at the center of a number of high profile laboratory automation projects at several major water reclamation and water treatment facilities across the U.S. and Canada. These laboratories have all implemented the enterprise
HORIZON Data Management (SDMS) technology for electronic record keeping and report automation, and several have rolled out, or plan to utilize, HORIZON's groundbreaking field data capture module. In addition to these capabilities, HORIZON was chosen to help facilitate compliance with NELAC, QA/QC, and regulatory reporting requirements.
American Water
ChemWare is partnering with
American Water to further enhance the laboratory processes at its Central Laboratory. Since its opening in 1981, the lab has been dedicated to drinking water analysis and quality measurement. With the implementation of HORIZON LIMS, American Water's Central Laboratory in Belleville, Illinois will be able to automate and manage all aspects of its laboratory information systems; provide accessibility to the information from its remote labs, including scheduling of sample delivery, availability of on-demand reporting and utilization of executed sampling and analysis programs; allow integration with other data management systems within the labs; and provide for growth and change in future laboratory practices.
Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts
One of the largest county sanitation districts in California, the
LACSD, commenced the implementation of HORIZON LIMS in February, 2007. This facility operates a confederation of independent special districts serving about 5.1 million people. The districts’ service area covers approximately 800 square miles encompassing 78 cities and unincorporated territory within the county. The LIMS will connect ten water reclamation plant laboratories and one ocean discharge facility, along with users at twelve sanitary landfills and related refuse processing facilities.
Clark County Water Reclamation District
The
CCWRD Wastewater Laboratory provides analytical support to the largest treatment plants in Nevada. CCWRD, with a collection system comprising 2,700 miles of pipeline, services unincorporated portions of Clark County and surrounding areas around Las Vegas, NV. CCWRD maintains a state-of-the-art laboratory that provides a range of testing services to support the analytical needs of the wastewater plants.
Public Health Laboratories
Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene
In July, ChemWare was awarded a contract with the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene (WSLH) to implement HORIZON LIMS in the WSLH Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety Divisions. These divisions provide services to protect occupational and environmental health across the state. The Environmental Sciences Section analyzes over 100,000 samples annually, including drinking water, surface water, waste water, sediment, air, animal tissue, soil, blood, urine, food and hazardous waste. These tests encompass the full range of inorganic, organic, radiochemistry, and environmental toxicity parameters. The WSLH Occupational Health Laboratory analyzes over 50,000 samples per year, primarily for industrial hygiene chemical and microbiological contaminants in air, wipe and bulk samples. The project is part of the overall
WSLH Strategic Plan, and involves replacement of internally-developed software systems with industry standard technologies and common business processes to support an integrated IT infrastructure for the WSLH labs. Expected outcomes include improvements in the efficiency of laboratory operations, client satisfaction (primarily through electronic data exchange enhancements), and compliance with federal regulations for documentation.