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StormGate-Zero

Built at Meta Global AI Developer Hackathon · Oct 26, 2026 · Remote

StormGate-Zero — Demo video

StormGate-Zero wires 6 Meta AI models into the open-source SWMM5 hydraulic solver (used in 100+ countries) to stop raw sewage overflows into city rivers: pre-draining tunnels 45 min ahead of normal cloudbursts (12.1M-14.8M gal cut to 0) and re-solving the pipe network on the fly if actuators jam, power drops, or crews lock a gate mid-storm (26.5M gal cut to 0). Live SCADA twin: https://stormgate-zero.onrender.com In London, Paris, Tokyo, across 650,000 European sewer outfalls, and in 746 U.S. cities, toilets and storm drains share one pipe, while in separate-sewer cities like Nairobi, floodwater pours through surcharged manholes and overwhelms trunk interceptors. To stop raw sewage from erupting out of basement toilets and flooding streets, utilities worldwide open relief weirs and dump untreated waste straight into local rivers and drinking-water intakes. Families lose homes to toxic backups and beaches close from E. coli spikes over 2,000x safe limits. In our U.S. test cities, utilities dump 850B gal/yr of untreated overflow (EPA 833-R-04-001) and face up to $68,445/day per violation when spills breach permit or consent-decree terms (33 U.S.C. 1319(d); 40 CFR 19.4, Jan 8, 2025). New tunnels take 25-50 yrs and $3B-$6B per city. Existing controllers fail at 3 walls: • 1970s float logic and single-point PLCs (IF local_level > threshold) are blind to radar, holding downstream gates shut until a basin hits 96% while upstream tunnels sit empty. • In-pipe sensors react only after water is in the concrete, too late for the 40 min needed to pre-drain a 10M-gal tunnel. • Pre-trained RL policies and classical MPC solvers break the moment a gate jams, loses power, or a crew reports a fault over VHF radio. How StormGate-Zero works (sam-3.1, muse-spark-1.3, muse-wonder-1.0, muse-voice-transcribe-1.0, muse-image-1.0, meta/muse-glimmer-30b + SWMM5): 1. 45-Min Radar Lookahead (0 gal spilled): sam-3.1 segments storm cores in <0f> grammar 45 min early while meta/muse-glimmer-30b audits the radar crop at the edge. On real NEXRAD mosaics, StormGate-Zero cuts sewage overflow from 12,096,528 gal to 0 gal on Hurricane Ida (1 Sep 2021, SWMM5 peak 3.338 psi on J1) and from 13,673,729 gal to 0 gal on the Jul 2, 2023 Chicago flood (peak 1.846 psi on J4). 2. Live Recovery When Hardware Breaks Mid-Storm: When a crew calls over VHF radio (muse-voice-transcribe-1.0) that gates jammed or locked, plant constraints update on the fly. Under a 2.2x double-lock fault (OR1=5%, OR2=90%), every fixed rule spills 4.36M-26.50M gal and blind one-shot AI spills 4.33M-6.97M gal. Shown only the 4 failing rules at the jam beat with no grid menu, muse-wonder-1.0 (resp_6ae9f0ee5b7721d9ff6a4da4) computes u = [0.05, 0.90, 0.12, 0.90], holding river sewage and street flooding to 0.0 gal. 3. 100-Storm Matrix & SHA-256 Proof: Saves 1,716,996,992.5 gal across 100 shear/fault scenarios with 0 losses, sealed in a 4-block SHA-256 ledger verified in 1 s.

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