Sewer Inspection Articles

The city of Bedford, Indiana — known as the “Limestone Capital of the World” — has a population of fewer than 14,000...

Manholes are a critical part of every sewer system as they provide necessary ventilation and an access point for cleaning and inspecting...

Simplifying your inspection workflow is the only way to stay on top of sewer maintenance. That’s why so many cities are turning...

Side-scanning is on the cutting edge of visual pipeline inspection. It gives engineers high-resolution, continuous imagery of a sewer’s interior wall, and...

With over 1,000 miles of sewer pipe and 400 miles of storm pipe, the city of Tallahassee’s Underground Utilities and Public Infrastructure...

Prior to the development of observation catalogs, sewer inspection professionals lacked a common way to discuss pipeline condition and defects. Decision-making data...

Situated 80 miles west of Philadelphia, the city of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, has become one of the fastest growing small cities in the United States....

When a manhole cover is broken, you don’t even have to climb out of your service truck to see it. A suspected...

A cross bore occurs when one underground utility line intersects another. Cross bores are particularly dangerous when a gas line intersects a...

As cloud-based storage becomes more popular, municipalities, utilities and contractors must consider the potential benefits cloud-based solutions provide, particularly for sewer inspection...

In the first four years after implementing its Interceptor Condition Assessment Program, the Fort Worth Water Department prevented an estimated 59 sanitary...

Being properly equipped makes sewer inspection more effective. Jim Legg, the wastewater operations supervisor for the Uxbridge (Massachusetts) Department of Public Works, knows...

April showers bring … May CSOs? Preventing combined sewer overflows is a top priority for municipalities with combined systems, and looming capacity...

Sewer inspections undoubtedly give municipalities a wealth of information, from what defects exist in pipes to the presence of inflow and infiltration,...