A focused approach to action On March 27, 2019, the City of Hamilton joined another 490 Canadian municipalities, declaring a climate change emergency that threatens cities, regions, provinces, nations and the world at large. In doing so, the city has joined forces with an international movement to take action now. As a part of the… Read More »
Hamilton reduces water loss with a proactive leak detection program
Thames Water finds a gigantic leak on a trunk main
Leak detection teams using the AQUASCAN TM2 tunk main correlator located one of the largest leaks ever to be found and repaired in the history of Thames Water: 3 million litres per day. The water escaping from the 16-inch cast iron pipe buried 2.5 metres beneath Guildford Street near the Great Ormond Street Hospital was… Read More »
Logan City nails leak with ZONESCAN 820 loggers and the cloud upload
On 25th of March 2019 the Logan City Council receives a customer call to report water that is coming up in a driveway. The Water Operations branch team around John Christie, Steve Young and Angus Heares investigate the SCADA data and indeed confirm an increase in the night line on the 21st of March. Pinpointing… Read More »
Thanks to ZONESCAN 820 Teccura changed the way they work
“It’s true to say we’ve had a love-hate relationship with noise loggers. Our first encounter with them was at the Water UK Leakage Conference 2016. As a company we had specialised in finding partially billed commercial properties for over a decade. But by 2016, we’d begun more and more to pinpoint non-visible network and customer-side… Read More »
Olathe KS, USA: Perfect correlation on a 36″ transmission main
First Successful HISCAN installation in the US – March 2019 In our first North American pilot, the HiScan sensors were installed roughly 2,400 ft (ca. 800 metres) apart on existing ARV’s affixed to a 36″ (900mm) ductile iron transmission main. The correlating HISCAN hydrophone sensor can be installed on existing appurtenances on the transmission mains, such… Read More »
