Water and wastewater
Commissioning software for water and wastewater assets that have to be proven wet before a single litre reaches a customer.
Clean water, dirty water, desalination and every pumped or piped asset between them go through the same shape of journey: dry commissioning, wet commissioning and a process proving stage that a regulator, a lab or an operations team will hold the project to. Deskely holds every clarifier, filter cell, membrane rack, wet well, digester and SCADA loop in one tag register, with the wet-test and sign-off gates built in rather than reconstructed at handover.
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The problem
A treatment train is a dozen live processes, not one project.
Water and wastewater schemes are built by civil, mechanical, MEICA and process subcontractors on their own schedules, each producing dry commissioning sheets, wet-test records and vendor punch in a different format. When wholesome water, consent acceptance or unattended operation is due, nobody can show which stage is actually proven and which is still running on manual bypass.
Wet-test evidence is scattered across contractors
Filter media certificates, blower commissioning reports and membrane integrity results arrive as PDFs from a dozen vendors, disconnected from the tag they belong to.
Dry and wet commissioning get blurred together
Motor rotation and valve stroking checks completed before water is introduced are often confused with flow, dosing and biological proving completed once a stage is wet.
Regulatory sampling sits in a separate system
Bacteriological samples, discharge consent results and gas safety verification live in a lab portal or a safety file, not beside the commissioning record a reviewer actually needs.
Vendor punch outlives the vendor
Commissioning engineers demobilise while their punch items are still open, and the water company inherits an unfinished list with no owner.
What you get
Built for a wet-test gate, whatever the process.
Model the scheme as process stages, assets and tags that match the P&ID, then gate wholesome water, consent acceptance or unattended operation on the wet-test and sampling evidence beneath them.
Dry and wet commissioning records
Motor rotation, valve stroking, flow proving and dosing tests held as distinct record types against the same tag, so a stage's readiness is never assumed from an installation checklist.
Learn moreRegulatory sampling and consent evidence
Bacteriological samples, discharge consent results and CT compliance calculations captured with named sign-off, ready as an export rather than a rebuild.
Learn moreWet commissioning and process proving
Backwash sequencing, biological seeding, salt rejection and changeover tests recorded against the exact filter cell, aeration lane, membrane rack or pump station.
Learn moreSCADA and telemetry loop checks
Field-to-PLC loop checks, FAT and SAT records and alarm routing tests tracked per outstation before control system acceptance.
Learn morePreservation for idle assets
Membrane preservative checks, pump seal flushes and digester mixer inspections scheduled and signed while assets sit between delivery and commissioning.
Learn morePunch and vendor sign-off
Defects raised at the tag with photos, categorised by whether they block wet commissioning, process proving or full handover.
Learn moreHow it runs
From dry commissioning to a signed process proving record.
- 01
Register and parse
P&IDs, process flow diagrams and equipment lists become a reviewed tag register, structured by process stage.
- 02
Dry commissioning
Motor rotation, valve stroking and instrument loop checks signed against every asset before water is introduced.
- 03
Wet commissioning and process proving
Flow, dosing, biological and membrane performance proven per stage, with vendor punch tracked to closure.
- 04
Sign off and hand over
Wholesome water, consent acceptance or unattended operation declared from signed evidence, exported as a structured dossier.
Side by side
Contractor folders versus a single wet-test record.
At sign-off the question is always the same: which stage is actually proven wet, and can you show the evidence for it right now?
| Aspect | Contractor folders and spreadsheets | Deskely |
|---|---|---|
| Dry vs wet commissioning | Blurred together in a single completion letter. | Held as distinct record types against the same tag. |
| Regulatory sampling | Tracked in a separate lab portal. | Held in the same register as the commissioning evidence. |
| Process proving | Reconstructed from vendor reports before sign-off. | Captured live against the exact cell, lane or rack. |
| SCADA loop checks | A spreadsheet per outstation, reconciled by hand. | Tracked per loop, rolled up to outstation acceptance. |
| Vendor punch | Lost once the contractor demobilises. | Owned, dated and tracked to closure at the tag. |
| Handover dossier | Assembled from scratch before go-live. | Exported as a structured package on demand. |
What changes
Per stage
wet-test and process proving readiness
One register
for dry commissioning, wet-test and sampling
Gated
sign-off on signed regulatory evidence
Day one
handover dossier for the operations team
Before you shortlist
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FAQ
Questions about water and wastewater.
Project types
The same completions ladder, from a clarifier tank to a SCADA outstation.
What changes between water and wastewater scopes is the equipment breakdown, which regulator or lab has to sign off the sample, and what gate sits before wholesome water, consent acceptance or unattended operation. The record types, the gates and the audit trail behind them do not.
Water treatment plant commissioning
A water treatment plant turns raw water into wholesome supply through a chain of process stages — intake screening, coagulation and flocculation, clarification, rapid gravity or membrane filtration, and chlorination or UV disinfection — each with its own dry commissioning, wet commissioning and process proving sequence. Deskely holds every tank, filter cell, doser and analyser in one register with the wet-test, regulatory sampling and wholesome-water gates built in.
See this scope in detailWastewater treatment plant commissioning
A wastewater treatment works takes crude sewage through inlet screening, primary settlement, biological treatment — activated sludge, SAF or trickling filter — secondary settlement and often tertiary polishing before discharge, with every stage commissioned against a P&ID and a discharge consent the regulator will hold the operator to. Deskely holds every tank, blower, diffuser and analyser in one register with the wet-test and consent-compliance gates built in.
See this scope in detailDesalination plant commissioning
A reverse osmosis desalination plant is a chain of high-consequence stages — seawater or brackish intake, pretreatment filtration, high-pressure feed pumps, membrane trains with energy recovery devices, and post-treatment remineralisation — where a single misaligned pressure vessel or uncommissioned dosing skid can compromise permeate quality across the whole train. Deskely holds every pump, vessel, membrane skid and analyser in one register with the wet-test and permeate-quality gates built in.
See this scope in detailWater and wastewater pump station commissioning
A water or wastewater pump station lives or dies on its wet test: duty and standby pumps switching correctly on level, VSDs holding pressure or flow set points, telemetry reporting status back to the control room, and standby generation picking up seamlessly on mains failure. Deskely holds every pump, valve, level sensor and generator in one register with the wet-commissioning and unattended-operation gates built in.
See this scope in detailService reservoir and distribution network commissioning
New trunk mains, distribution mains and service reservoirs cannot simply be connected to a live network — each section is swabbed, pressure tested, chlorinated, flushed and bacteriologically sampled before it is declared fit for supply, and a service reservoir is structurally inspected, cleaned and disinfected before it holds wholesome water. Deskely holds every main section, valve, reservoir cell and sample point in one register with the disinfection and fit-for-supply gates built in.
See this scope in detailSludge and biosolids treatment commissioning
A sludge treatment centre thickens, digests, dewaters and often burns the biogas from imported sludge, with anaerobic digestion in particular carrying gas-safety commissioning on top of the usual mechanical and process proving. Deskely holds every digester, centrifuge, gas holder and CHP unit in one register with the gas-safety and biosolids-quality gates built in.
See this scope in detailIndustrial water reuse and reclamation commissioning
An industrial water reuse scheme reclaims effluent or process wastewater to a fit-for-purpose standard for cooling, process make-up or irrigation, adding tertiary filtration, membrane bioreactors or advanced oxidation on top of conventional treatment, with strict cross-connection control between potable and reclaimed systems. Deskely holds every membrane train, dosing skid and cross-connection point in one register with the water-quality-validation and cross-connection-control gates built in.
See this scope in detailStormwater and flood defence commissioning
Stormwater and flood management schemes combine attenuation tanks, sustainable drainage (SuDS) features, penstocks and flap valves, and often a pumping station, all designed around a specific storm return period and needing to be proven mechanically sound and hydraulically effective before the scheme is adopted. Deskely holds every tank, penstock, valve and pump in one register with the wet-test and adoption gates built in.
See this scope in detailWater and wastewater SCADA and telemetry commissioning
A water or wastewater control system is only as good as its weakest instrument loop: every sensor, actuator and alarm has to be loop-checked from field device through the PLC or RTU to the SCADA HMI before an operator can trust what the screen is showing. Deskely holds every I/O point, loop and alarm in one register with the loop-check and control-system-acceptance gates built in.
See this scope in detailPackage plant and brownfield upgrade commissioning
Package treatment plants and brownfield upgrades share the same constraint: the work has to be commissioned alongside, or cut into, a live water or wastewater process that cannot be taken fully offline, with tie-ins, temporary bypasses and phased cutover sequences adding a layer of risk that a greenfield build does not carry. Deskely holds every skid, tie-in point and cutover step in one register with the phased-commissioning and cutover gates built in.
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