Water Information Management System

The Avadine Water Information Management System ("WIMS") is a computer-based application designed to provide an integrated platform for handling various water district operational, administrative and reporting tasks.

For a reference, see the WIMS handbook.

Program Features

The WIMS application provides water district personnel with a centralized tool for storage, maintenance and reporting of district data. Features provided by WIMS include:

Administrative Data

  • Codes (ability to associate data with common, user-defined attributes)
  • Contracts
  • Crops
  • Parcels
  • Names
  • Rates
  • Zones (both geographic and rate zones are supported)

Water Delivery Facilities / Equipment

  • Meters
  • Pumps
  • Traveling Screens
  • Turnouts
  • Delivery Systems (any portion of a distribution system such as a canal reach, lateral, pumping plant, etc.)
  • Aqueduct Turnout (any location where the district recieves water from an aqueduct source)

Operational / Transactional Data

  • DWR Deliveries (actual delievers from DWR to district)
  • DWR Orders (water orders placed by the District with DWR)
  • Grower Orders
  • Projected Deliveries (flow projections for Turnouts, Delivery Systems, and/or Aqueduct Turnouts based on Grower Order data)
  • Meter Readings /Water Usage (manual, handheld or data import)
  • Maintenance Activity
  • Water Transactions (additions to or subtractions from individual water accounts because of transfers, adjustments, supplemental allocations such as interruptible water or turn back pool water etc.)

Processes

  • Water Application
  • Annual Water Toll Billiing
  • Annual Tax Billing
  • Monthly Usage and Other Speciality Billing
  • Support for Domestic Use and Billing

Product Advantages

Ease of use: WIMS uses a familiar Windows Explorer-style interface that users learn quickly.

WIMS

Open Architecture: Unlike some closed, proprietary systems, WIMS uses industry standard Microsoft SQL Server for data storage. An optional SDK allows direct interface to WIMS data while maintaining all data security and integrity rules.

Accessbility: Users can directly access the data for advanced repoting or integration with other systems.

Flexible Configuration: WIMS is configured for each distrcit and custom modifications to meet special requirements are no problem.