Requirements checklist
What to ask for when choosing software for sewage treatment operators.
A checklist built from how sewage treatment operators work, to print or save as a PDF and bring to any supplier meeting.
What the software should cover
Tick each one that matters to your business.
- Operator rounds and logbook
- Sample and laboratory register
- Discharge consent tracking
- Septage and tanker receiving
- Sludge and screenings haulage
- Lift stations and maintenance
- Chemical store and dosing
Roles that need their own access
Who logs in, and what each person may see or change.
- For plant managers
- For operators
- For laboratory analysts
- For maintenance technicians
- For compliance managers
Reports to ask for
Ask to see each one with your own sample data.
- Results against consent limits by parameter and outfall
- Samples due, taken and awaiting results
- Sludge produced, hauled and balanced by month
- Tankers received by source, volume and charge
- Chemical delivered and used against flow treated
- Pump station alarms, run hours and repairs
- Complaints by type, location and action taken
Systems it may need to connect to
Note which ones you already run.
- Plant control system export
- Laboratory results file
- SMS
- WhatsApp or other messaging
- Accounting export
Questions for any vendor
Put these to every supplier you are comparing.
- Does it control the pumps or the dosing?
- Can several treatment works and pump stations sit in one account?
- How are consent limits applied?
- Can we log tankers and charge for them?
- What about sludge going to different destinations?
- Can operators use it without a network on site?
- Is the laboratory result history kept?
- Who owns our plant records?
- How is the price worked out?
Where the work usually breaks today
Circle the ones you recognise. They set the order of the project.
- Operator rounds live in a paper logbook
- Laboratory results are not matched to the process
- Consent reporting is assembled by hand
- Sludge haulage is booked on paper
- Lift stations fail between visits
Prefer to talk it through? See the sewage treatment operators page.