Sutron Books August Sales of $1,892,930 for Worldwide Projects

During August 2004, Sutron Corporation received orders and contracts totaling $1,892,930 to provide services, equipment, systems and software for a variety of water and weather monitoring projects throughout the world.

NOAA's National Ocean Service (NOS) $464,720 procurement covered Sutron's state-of-the-art Tide Stations, designed specifically to meet NOS requirements for monitoring tides, storm surge, and other coastal parameters. NOS ordered 22 Main Stations, 22 Redundant Tide Gauges, and 16 Hydrogauges.

Sutron also received purchase orders for $308,181 from the USGS Hydrologic Instrumentation Facility (HIF) for Sutron Bubblers, 8210s and XLite Dataloggers as well as 72 units of Sutron's SatLink2 GOES Transmitter/Logger, the first GOES Satellite Transmitter/Logger with Pocket PC communications, 4 analog inputs and 10 SDI-12 interfaces.

A contract totaling $151,000 was received from the Netherlands Antilles to design, manufacture, install and service Airport Weather Observation Systems (AWOS) for two airports in that country.

SFWMD (the South Florida Water Management District) awarded additional service contracts totaling $343,041 to Sutron's Brandon, Florida office. Sutron provides the District with flow monitoring, science and engineering, site installation and SCADA services in support of SFWMD's actions to comply with requirements of CERP (Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan).

The US Army Corps of Engineers (COE)'s $100,000-plus August orders were for Sutron dataloggers and SatLink2 Transmitter/Loggers. A $61,000 August purchase order from the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) requisitioned Sutron systems software, XConnect, and proprietary Sutron hardware. Additionally, the Bureau of Reclamation in Alamosa, Colorado, issued a $23,000 order for Sutron RTU panels, and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality ordered SatLink2 Transmitter/Loggers and other related hardware totaling $22,000.

This release contains forward-looking statements, including statements regarding Sutron's expected commercial operations. These forward-looking statements are based on a number of assumptions and Sutron's actual results and operations may be materially different from those expressed or implied by such statements.

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