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The Washington Aqueduct (WA), a division of the Baltimore District United States Army Corps of Engineers, produces drinking water for over one million citizens living, working, and visiting in the District of Columbia, Arlington County, Virginia, and the City of Falls Church, Virginia, and its service area. WA has the responsibility to provide safe, reliable, cost-effective drinking water 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The Aqueduct is a federally owned and operated public water supply agency that produces an average of 180 million gallons of water per day at two treatment plants located in the District of Columbia. All funding for operations, maintenance, and capital improvements comes from revenue generated by selling drinking water to the three jurisdictions.

In connection with its potable water treatment program, the Washington Aqueduct Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system was installed in 1991 and as part of the system configuration; Iconics software/firmware was utilized. The Iconics software/firmware programming runs the graphic interface displays used by the WA SCADA operators to report real time events in the processing spectrum. The version currently in use is Genesis 32 version 9.3 the goal is within one year to be utilizing Genesis 64 version 10.0 or higher. Please see: https://www.iconics.com

The intent is to obtain periodic software engineering upgrades which will be incorporated into the graphic interface displays used by the WA SCADA operators to report real time events in the processing spectrum. The version currently in use is Genesis 32 version 9.3 the goal is within one year to be utilizing Genesis 64 version 10.0 or higher.