The Community

The City of Woodland, Washington is located 20 miles north of Vancouver, Washington — the southern gateway to Mt. St. Helens. Situated at the junction of Interstate 5 and State Highway 503, the city spans both Cowlitz and Clark Counties and serves a growing population of 6,035, with the greater Woodland area exceeding 10,000 residents.

Yale Elementary School, part of the Woodland Public School System, sits at 11842 Lewis River Road in Ariel, WA. The district serves approximately 2,250 students across five traditional public schools. Due to Yale’s remote location, water is supplied by a local underground well rather than a municipal system.

The Challenge

Water for Yale Elementary is harvested from an underground well, brought up and stored in a holding tank within the school. Three years ago, the Washington State Department of Health required the school to begin chlorinating their water system and taking daily chlorine samples to verify that correct levels were being maintained — and that the water was not being over-chlorinated.

Scott Landrigan, Director of Facilities and Safety at Woodland School District, was tasked with finding a reliable solution. He connected with Ken Navidi of Bainbridge Associates in Camas, Washington — a manufacturer’s representative for Electro-Chemical Devices (ECD) out of Anaheim, California, specialists in liquid analytical process instrumentation.

Together, Scott and Ken identified the ECD T80 chlorine sensor as the right technology for the job. With the T80 in place, the school could accurately monitor chlorine levels every day, satisfying the Department of Health permit requirements and ensuring safe water for every student and staff member on campus.

A New Problem

The addition of the new library changed everything. The building opened the school’s water supply to the public on weekends and during summer breaks. Under Washington state law, the school was required to actively monitor chlorine levels any time a person was in the facility with access to the water — regardless of whether school personnel were present.

Manual monitoring was no longer sufficient. The school needed a way to remotely monitor chlorine 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with automated alerts if levels fell out of compliance.

The Solution

Bainbridge Associates is also a manufacturer’s representative for AccuDose, LLC out of Tampa, FL. AccuDose manufactures high-quality, cost-effective cloud-based remote monitoring solutions purpose-built for the water and wastewater industry.

Ken Navidi supplied the RMC-2000 — AccuDose’s cloud-based remote monitoring controller. The ECD T80 chlorine analyzer was integrated directly with the RMC-2000, giving the school 24/7 real-time visibility into chlorine analyzer readings from anywhere.

The RMC-2000 was connected to the school’s existing WiFi network and configured on the AccuDose server platform. From that point forward, real-time chlorine data was available at any time, with automatic SMS and email alerts triggered if pre-configured setpoints were met or exceeded — protecting students, staff, and the public whether or not anyone was physically on campus.

The Outcome

Yale Elementary School now has full-time remote chlorine monitoring in place. The Department of Health compliance requirement is satisfied continuously — not just during school hours. Staff are alerted instantly if chlorine levels drift out of range, and the school has complete confidence that the water supply is safe for every person on campus, at any time of day or year.

This deployment demonstrates exactly what AccuDose was built to do: bring enterprise-level monitoring capability to communities of any size, at a cost that works for a small school district in rural Washington state.