EPA Calls Electrical Resistance Testing ‘Only Currently Available’ Innovative Solution to Locate Lead Pipes

Excerpt from EPA Webinar

“The technologies that were contracted were able to identify that there is only essentially one that’s currently available. That’s electrical resistance technology.”

“For some of the others that you see here [SLIDE 34] like ground penetrating radar and acoustics haven’t made it far enough to have a commercially available product. This is what some of these technologies look like on the slide here I’m showing you that no dig technology is the truly no dig ones.”

SOURCE
Simoni Triantafyllidou,
EPA Office of Research and Development, EPA Webinar, December 3, 2024

EPA Title Slide on Emerging Technologies

CEO, Chuck Hansen Takes to the Airwaves to Show How Looking Into a Meter Box Doesn’t Find Lead

After hearing of so many California cities that limited their water service line inspections to visual inspection of the inside of meter boxes and visual inspection of hose bibs or spigots, Chuck Hansen decided to take to the airwaves to let homeowners know that buried water pipes need to be inspected, too.

Watch and learn how underground pipes can be inspected with the Electro Scan SWORDFISH, without digging. Making sure that homes and business are certified as non-lead water pipes.

Special thanks to Sacramento’s Kellee Benedict Electro Scan Producer and on-air talents Gary Gelfand and Scott Moak.

20 City Roadshow

With almost two years until the EPA’s Deadline to Inventory your Lead Pipes, Electro Scan Inc. is pleased to announce its upcoming 20-City Roadshow featuring #SWORDFISH. The water industry’s first machine-intelligent tool that locates buried lead pipes without digging or excavating.

With nearly 50,000 Community Water Systems (CWS) required to submit accurate inventories of their lead pipes (or confirm they have no lead pipe), #swordfish is the answer.

An estimated 5,000 to 10,000 #swordfish are expected to be sold in the next eighteen (18) months, that can also be used for leak detection in 1/2-1 inch diameter pipes.

With manufacturing in full gear, order your #SWORDFISH today!

With larger agencies already taking multiple years to grapple with identifying their lead pipes, with millions of pipes still unidentified or unknown, let Electro Scan Inc.and #SWORDFISH help ramp up your water utility field staff or work through one of our geographically exclusive Authorized Swordfish Service Providers.

“While data modeling techniques for identifying probabilities of Lead Service Lines (LSLs) exist and have been useful in some cities, these techniques only identify probabilities of LSLs that can be used to prioritize work; they do not generate a verified service line inventory.”

Source:
Independent Verification and Validation of DC Water’s
Lead Free DC Lead Service Line Removal Plan
FINAL REPORT
Safe Water Engineering, LLC
September 22, 2022

Want to be considered as one of our 20-City Roadshow sites?  
Email me at chuck@electroscan.com