Info, impact, causes, and troubleshooting a Water Source Budget Exceeded message.

Common Causes 

• Water budget being enabled for conservation purposes. 
• Water budget enabled accidentally with any value greater than zero. 
  • Budget shutdown was not enabled, and the water budget was exceeded during the month. 

What Happens Now? From alert message:

• Expected vs Actual: The controller expected 25,000 gallons in a month to run through Water Source 1 (WS 1) but only recorded 25,100 gallons. 
  • Shutdown wasn’t enabled resulting in an alert only. 
  • Ex: on a site with two water sources, only the mainlines and zones downstream of WS 1 are affected. WS 2 and its zones are not impacted.
• The budget was set to 25,000 gallons for the month, but the usage used 25,100 gallons in that same month. 

Troubleshooting: Asking the question "Was the Budget Intended?”  

• If you intend to set a measurable water budget stop. 
  • You can increase the water budget.
  • You could disable the water budget altogether. 
• It may be advised to enable a shutdown action to receive an alert as well as shutting down the over budget source.
  • In BaseManager  → Flow → Water Sources, to access these settings. 
  • Under Flow Management you can adjust the Monthly Budget or set to zero to skip this feature. 
  • If the Shutdown box is unchecked and the budget is exceeded the controller will only alert you.