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- City of Salem
- Qatar Foundation
- ACCIONA
When insight becomes foresight

Like any other major city, Salem, Oregon, needs to keep its water supply clean – and its citizens safe.
After toxins from harmful algae blooms in Detroit Lake contaminated Salem’s drinking water, authorities needed to find a new way to ensure a safe water supply.
The City of Salem set out to help its teams collaborate more closely and empower them to:
- Aggregate and centralize new sources of data
- Forecast harmful algae blooms
- Use analytics and predictive modelling to improve water quality
Traditionally, the City of Salem had taken a reactive approach to managing the naturally-occurring blooms but it was clear this could not continue. Authorities turned to technology to better understand their ecosystem and hired CASNE, an AVEVA partner, to help build a prediction system to understand the factors that caused the algae to bloom.
The City had a fairly new [AVEVA] PI System at the time and I really began to think, what could be done with PI as a backbone system… could we build a harmful algae bloom prediction system?
The software behind the science
The first step for the City of Salem was to gather a slew of new data including algae levels, water depth, weather data, water turbidity, satellite imagery, and lab samples. With all this new information incoming, it was time for the city to make the most of every single data point.
Using AVEVA software, authorities were able to aggregate and centralize the data – making it easily accessible from a web browser to mathematicians and ecologists, as well as external partners. With this real-time information at their fingertips, scientists could now start building models to predict when algae would bloom.
A clear view of the problem
Operators now receive a warning a week before algae start to bloom, giving them an indication that they need to take action – be it by adding a filter or redirecting the water flow. With data transparency increasingly important for public water services, lake data is now easily accessible to community partners.
By putting industrial intelligence to work, the City of Salem’s technical teams and scientists have made the city’s drinking water safer than ever.
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