Pamu.

The horizontal cabinet being used at a Pamu location.

NZ Flow Group and NZ MechTech were given the opportunity to assist Shape Technology to deliver a compliance driven water metering project for Pamu (Landcorp) in the Southland and Otago Regions.

The main bulk of the work was in and around Te Anau and the brief was to enable Pamu to have all of their water takes ready for changes to compliance regulations in the region and create a platform for monitoring their usage into the future.

Shape Technology is a proud partner of NZ Flow Group, and we utilise their knowledge, hardware and web services to allow us to offer a robust and reliable telemetry package to our customers.  For this project though, we were supporting Shape to deliver their own telemetry package by offering our flow meter experience in this sector and mechanical skills to get the project over the line.

With over 50 takes to complete and located in one of the most challenging and remote parts of New Zealand, it has been a very rewarding journey!

Due to the topography of the region and the scale of area to cover we could not use a “one approach fits all” model.  Some takes were not within cell phone reception, some had no pumping infrastructure and some were at altitude.

To get around these challenges we proposed a flow cabinet design to meet the requirements of some of the most remotes takes in our brief.  Spring feeds need to monitored as close to the source as possible.  The cabinet design enables us to offer a solution that protects the infrastructure from stock damage, keep rodents and pests out, rely on solar and battery power and be insulated from the extreme weather in this part of the world.  No cell phone reception can be a challenge also but to get around this, Shape Technology offer a Satellite (SWARM) option for this very purpose.