At the beginning of 2000, the Clayton County (Ga.) Water Authority discovered it had some significant water loss issues. A six-year leak detection scan of its entire 1,456 miles of water main found the system was losing a substantial amount of its water.“Our board realized the costs associated with water losses and started looking for solutions,” says Jeff Jones, leak detection and repair foreman. “In examining the water loss, our board began summing it up in dollars and cents rather than a percentage.“When we started to look at it that way, the loss was way up in the millions of
