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          WE ARE AT THE WEST BIKE SITE OF OUR SCADA TOWER, WHICH IS THE MAIN TELECOMMUNICATIONS TOWER FOR JEFFERSON PARISH. 
          SCADA IS SUPERVISORY CONTROL AND DATA ACQUISITION, WHICH IS A VERY FANCY WAY OF SAYING IT'S A COMPUTERIZED SYSTEM THAT ALLOWS US TO MAINTAIN AND MONITOR DATA. 
          IT'S A REMOTE SYSTEM THAT ALLOWS US TO REMOTELY MONITOR OUR WATER, SEWER AND DRAINAGE. 
          IT ALLOWS US TO MONITOR THOSE SERVICES MORE QUICKLY TO MITIGATE RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH POWER OUTAGES, WITH CHEMICAL IMBALANCES IN YOUR WATER SYSTEM, WITH ANY KIND OF SYSTEM FAILURE, NEED FOR GENERATORS, A VALVE THAT'S STUCK, UM, INCOMING RAIN, SO ALLOWS US TO MORE QUICKLY MONITOR WEATHER CONDITIONS TO RESPOND MORE, RESPOND MORE QUICKLY. 
          WE UPDATED OUR SOFTWARE, SO WE WENT FROM AN OLDER SOFTWARE THAT WAS NO LONGER SUPPORTED BY THE MANUFACTURER TO A NEWER SOFTWARE THAT RUNS MORE EFFICIENTLY AND IS MORE ROBUST, SO IT GIVES US BETTER DATA MORE QUICKLY AND ALLOWS FOR FUTURE UPGRADES AND FUTURE EXPANSION AS NEEDED. 
          THE SCADA SYSTEM ALSO MONITORS WIND SPEED AND RAIN LEVELS. 
          WE HAVE 70 RAIN GAUGES ON IT, SO WE CAN FORECAST INCOMING STORMS A LOT BETTER, WHICH ALLOWS US TO BE MORE READY AND, UH, AGILE IN GETTING OUR, OUR FORCES IN THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME.
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