27” Cast Iron Joint Leak discovered in Bristol, England
The Water Systems Division of Brockville, a city located in the Thousand Islands region of Eastern Ontario, serves more than 22,000 residents and businesses that call the city home, as well as a portion of the neighboring Township of Elizabethtown-Kitley. Its water treatment plant has a maximum design capacity of 36 Ml/day (million litres per day) and provides treated water through ...
Jalur Cahaya Sdn Bhd (JCSB) is a full-service environmental engineering company that helps Malaysian water utilities reduce non-revenue water (NRW).
NRW is the difference between the volume of water supplied to the system and the volume of water billed to the customers. Simply put, it is water loss for which the utility receives zero revenue. NRW is an important issue ...
Acoustic-Based Condition Assessment Provides Accurate Remaining Pipe Wall Thickness Measurements for Columbus, Ohio
The City of Columbus, Ohio’s water infrastructure is quickly coming to the end of its life expectancy. As a result, the city is significantly increasing its budget for large-scale pipe replacement projects. Malcolm Pirnie, a Division of Arcadis, the engineering firm that is assisting Columbus with ...
The Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans (SWBNO) has been using acoustic leak detection for perhaps two decades. However, in early 2011 it incorporated Echologics’ acoustic-based leak detection and pipe condition assessment services into its water loss management and water pipe integrity assessment program aimed at reducing non-revenue water (NRW), which The International Water Association defines as water that has ...
Resolute Bay is an Arctic waterway in the Qikiqtaaluk region of Nunavut, Canada. Home to approximately 250 people, it is one of the most northerly communities in Canada and is also one of the coldest inhabited places in the world, with an average yearly temperature of −16.4°C (2.5°F).
Resolute Bay’s water system was plagued by underground leaks that were responsible ...
The City of Greensboro is the third largest city by population in the state of North Carolina where it is home to approximately 270,000 residents. The city’s Water Resources Department treats and delivers an average of about 32 million gallons of water per day and has provided its customers with safe, clean water for almost 100 years.
The department is dedicated and ...
Renowned as one of the top ski destinations in Ontario, the Caledon Ski Club is a private ski and snowboarding club located about an hour outside of Toronto in the heart of the Caledon Hills and offers some of the best snowmaking and grooming in the province.
The club boasts 23 groomed trails with two surface lifts, four quads, and two ...
Since it was founded in Palm Springs, Calif., in 1974, American Leak Detection (ALD) has grown to become a recognized leading global provider of accurate, non-invasive water and sewer leak detection to residential, commercial and municipal customers through its 340 franchisees in North America, Australia, Europe, Middle East and Asia. ALD has been ranked #1 in Entrepreneur ® magazine’s “Maintenance Products and Services” ...
United Water New Jersey (UWNJ), a subsidiary of United Water, one of the leading water and wastewater service providers in the United States, provides water services to more than 800,000 people throughout Bergen and Hudson counties and surrounding areas. Its system contains more than 2,100 miles of water main that delivered (distributed) approximately 38.5 billion gallons of water in 2009 alone.
Like many utilities, ...
The District of Maple Ridge, British Columbia provides drinking water to more than 68,000 residential and commercial customers through 380 kilometers of water mains. A community located 26 miles east of Vancouver on the north bank of the Fraser River, Maple Ridge was experiencing leaks and main breaks in sections of its water system, which is comprised mainly of ductile iron pipe. However, ...
A large industrial facility in the Houston, Texas area that was owned by a leading international health care, nutrition and innovative materials provider was being plagued by a large water leak in its fire protection system. Water that was being lost through the leak, which amounted to approximately 50 gallons of water per minute, had become apparent and was flooding sections ...
A global leader in the beverage industry had a bottling plant in Shanyang, China, that was losing approximately 150,000 liters of treated water per day through a leak in its water system. The facility’s water system was fed by the city’s water supply through a 300mm service lateral, which provided water for the plant’s operations, employees and fire ...
A large, U.S.-based Fortune 500 industrial company was experiencing multiple leaks on a 1500ft span of six inch steel force sewer main that conveyed sanitary wastewater from one of its plants to a municipally-owned collection system. It was not the first time the company had experienced leaks on this particular force main; it had recently been troubled by a ...
The Las Vegas Valley Water District (LVVWD) began providing water to the Las Vegas Valley in 1954. Over the years, the city’s water delivery system has grown to more than 4,500 miles of pipeline, 350,000 service connections, and a reservoir system capable of storing more than 900 million gallons of water. Today, the district provides water to more than one million people in ...
The California Rural Water Association (CRWA) has emerged as California’s leading association dedicated to providing on-site technical assistance and specialized training for rural water and wastewater systems. The organization’s experienced water and wastewater professionals work together to provide members with quality information, training, technical assistance and legislative representation to help meet their needs.
Like many water service providers ...
The leak was discovered by correlation in July of 2008. Shortly after its discovery the location was excavated to investigate andrepair. Upon exposing the pipe it was realized that the leak wasemanating from a joint on a 6” Tee. The water was not reachingthe surface because it was draining into a sewer main.It was estimated that the rate of water loss ...