Key advantages of Water Services leak surveying

• Reducing non-revenue water, such as raw water treatment costs and pumping rates
• We test on both side of the meter where applicable for a full review of delivery efficiencies
• It helps reduce liability of your municipality
• It reduces repair costs by addressing smaller leaks before they turn into larger emergent problems
• It will help avoid system contamination, thus reducing costly repair and avoiding segmented water delivery interruptions
• THE IMPORTANCE OF LEAK SURVEYING
  Water lost through leaks, waste, or simple theft is referred to as non-revenue water, in that it fails to provide revenue to the water supplier because it never reaches its customers. These can be physical losses of water escaping the system, or unaccounted-for water that is not measured due to faulty meters and meters that have been tampered with, poor accounting and bookkeeping, or because of human error when reading and recording the water system flow meters. The accumulation of losses over long durations can result in significant losses even from insignificant leaks. If water can get out, impurities (soil, bacteria, organics, etc.) can get in and impair the quality of the water, even rendering it unfit to drink. These losses will continue over time until they are detected.
• Non-revenue water losses are quantified the same way as water provided; volume (gallons or liters) per units of time (per minute for the actual leakage/flow rate or per year to measure accumulative losses). Water losses can also be measured in large water supply systems in terms of volume of water lost per the total length (miles or kilometers) of the pipelines that make up the water supply system. These values are then compared to the water supply flow rates to determine the percent of total water being lost or otherwise unaccounted for. As a general rule, water losses will vary proportionally with the age of the water supply system, or the ages of the various subsections of large metropolitan systems. Larger, older cities can have sections less than a decade old or older than a century.
• Since the city operating a water supply system can be its own customer, certain water flows are considered accounted for but non-revenue in the sense that the city does not charge itself for water usage. These applications include firefighting services, park sprinkler and irrigation systems, city-owned pools and recreational facilities, etc.

• Water Services can survey your municipality’s delivery system incrementally by mile or segmented areas completely as an ongoing or as desired proactive maintenance service.