Energy, water and air management for county facilities.
A county runs jails that never close, courthouses with aging plant, depots with almost no metering and often its own water system. Aqueduct measures each against its own baseline and routes fixes to the crew that owns it.
What makes a county estate hard to run.
Buildings that never sleep
Jails and sheriff facilities run kitchens, laundry and showers around the clock
Courthouses with aging plant
Boilers and air handlers decades old, serving buildings on a public calendar
Depots and yards
Fleet, salt and road depots on one meter or none
County water systems
Small networks losing supply without a district balance
The scale counties carry.
of US local jails are operated by county governments.
Source: NACo, 2025per person per day is the normal water use rate one state prison system plans around.
Source: Virginia DOC, OP 302.3invested by counties each year in infrastructure and public works.
Source: NACo, 2025Water systems face new deadlines.
Lead and Copper Rule Improvements
County-run water systems must begin compliance and replace lead service lines within 10 years.
Direct pay for local government
State and local governments can receive clean energy credits as direct payments under elective pay.
The questions each county seat asks.
“Can it cover forty buildings with a small team?”
“Can data stay on our own network?”
“Can I show the board a measured saving?”
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Guides for every part of a county estate
Jails and detention centers
24/7 facilities with water per housing unit, kitchens, laundry and HVAC measured every hour.
Learn moreCourthouses and civic buildings
Courthouses, administration buildings and libraries run to the public calendar, benchmarking ready.
Learn morePublic works and water
County water and sewer systems, pump stations and AWWA M36 audit data, alongside SCADA.
Learn moreRelated
Common questions
It can, building by building. A county can keep a working BMS and let Aqueduct read it, replace aged out controls with Aqueduct through BACnet or Modbus field devices, or build Aqueduct into a new facility at design stage. See keep your BMS.
Yes. Aqueduct ranks findings across every building by cost, so a small facilities team works the few that matter each week instead of watching dashboards. Each work order names the building, equipment and likely cause, which matters in jails where every visit needs an escort.
Yes. Each building gets a baseline built by regression on its own bills and cooling and heating degree days, and Aqueduct reports actual use against it in money at your tariff. The board sees savings per building with the method behind them. See measurement and verification.
Yes. Depots often sit on one meter or none, so Aqueduct adds wireless LoRaWAN meters and sensors for electricity, water and heating, read through a gateway. Fleet bays, wash bays and salt barns then show their own use, and heaters or lights left on overnight are flagged.
See Aqueduct on your own facility.
Bring a site, a utility bill or a question. We will show you where the loss is.