High Tech Pioneer & California Native to Help Assess Early Stage Companies as Part of Sacramento Region Venture Capital Fund

SACRAMENTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Chuck Hansen, Managing Partner of Hansen Investment Holdings, LLC has joined the Investment Board of Moneta Ventures, LLC..

Headquartered in Folsom, California, Moneta Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early stage companies with a focus on software and cloud services, IT services, internet and consumer services sectors.

Chuck Hansen, Managing Partner, Hansen Investment Holdings, LLC.

Moneta Ventures invests between $50,000 and $2 million per investment with companies typically having annual revenues between $1 million and $5 million. While not restricted geographically, many of its funded companies are located in underserved markets on the U.S. West Coast.

“I’m delighted to join such an esteemed group of advisors at Moneta Ventures led by the highly talented and charismatic Lokesh Sikaria,” states Chuck Hansen, Hansen Investment Holdings. “While I knew of Lokesh’s previous success as Founder & CEO of Sparta Consulting, I first heard about his fund when our daughters talked about it at middle school. I took a look at some of their portfolio investments, like MindTickle!, 5^th Planet Games, and Perkville, and thought I might be able to add some value.”

“Chuck’s background in IT and experience with start-ups were key factors in inviting him to join our Board,” states Lokesh Sikaria, Managing Partner, Moneta Ventures. “Our financial backing is only one component of helping young companies optimize growth and profitability. We also want to mentor and coach entrepreneurs, when needed.”

About Hansen Investment Holdings
Founded in 2007, Hansen Investment Holdings LLC, (“HIH”) is a family-based private equity fund led by Chuck Hansen, Managing Partner, investing in public and private companies, including investments in Electro Scan Inc. (Sacramento, California) and BitSpeed LLC (Torrance, California). Prior to starting his equity fund, Chuck was the former Chairman & CEO of Sacramento-based Hansen Information Technologies, a global IT provider of web portal and smartphone applications for state & local governments acquired by Infor Global in 2007 for $100 million.

Contacts
Hansen Investment Holdings
Janine Mullinix, 916-779-0660
VP Administration

Announcing Sales, Services and Support for Its International Patent-Pending Electro Scan Leak Detection Technology for UK Water and Sewer Companies

(BUSINESS WIRE) LONDON, 15 September 2014 — Electro Scan Inc. today announced the launch of Electro Scan (UK) Limited, Company Nr 9211607, with its registered office at 71-75, Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2H 9JQ, England, Tel: +44 (0) 20 7692 8729.

New Electro Scan Company Launched in the United Kingdom.

The company’s international patent-pending low-voltage inspection system locates and measures (in litres per second) estimated defect flows in pre- and post-cured-in-place lined pipes. In accordance with ASTM F2550-13, Electro Scan’s products detect faults typically not seen or heard by Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras or acoustical sensors, respectively.

“We are excited to bring our products, services and support to Water and Sewer Companies (WASC) after nearly two years of innovative projects in England and Northern Ireland,” stated Chuck Hansen, Director, Electro Scan (UK) Limited.

“We chose this week’s NO-DIG LIVE 2014 in Peterborough, PE2 6XE, to announce the opening of our head office in London,” stated Carissa Boudwin, Director of Marketing, Electro Scan Inc. “We look forward to working with Framework Contractors and WASCs to help satisfy requirements of AMP6.” 

About Electro Scan
The company designs, develops, markets, and sells advanced detection instrumentation, in addition to mobile and cloud computing applications that automatically locate, measure, and report defect flows in pre- and post-rehabilitated water and sewer pipes. Electro Scan (UK) Limited is a wholly-owned subsidiary of US-based Electro Scan Inc. Certified by the Registrar of Companies for England and Wales, Electro Scan (UK) Limited was incorporated in accordance with the Companies Act 2006.

Contact
Electro Scan (UK) Limited, +44 (0) 20 7692 8729, info@electroscan.co.uk

UKSTT Awards ‘Young Engineer of the Year’ to Liam MacFarlane of Wessex Water Services Limited

‘Holistic Approach to Infiltration and Inflow Exclusion’ Highlights Electro Scan Project of Wessex Water’s In-house Construction Arm, Wessex Engineering and Construction Services

Sacramento, California USA, June 23, 2014 — Electro Scan Inc. today announced that Mr. Liam MacFarlane, Critical Sewers Engineer, Wessex Engineering and Construction Services (WECS), Wessex Water’s in-house construction arm, was selected as the ‘Young Engineer of the Year’ award recipient presented by the UK Society for Trenchless Technologies (UKSTT).   The award was based on Liam MacFarlane’s technical paper ‘Holistic Approach to Infiltration and Inflow Exclusion’ highlighting an Electro Scan project.

The prestigious award was presented at UKSTT’s 20^th Annual Dinner & Awards Ceremony held in Birmingham, England in May 2014.

The ‘Young Engineer’ award is presented to the engineer — under 30 years of age — who best demonstrates their contribution to the field of Trenchless Technology based on evidence of an understanding of Trenchless Technology, the individual’s contribution made, the quality of submission, and the candidate’s vision for the future of trenchless technology.

“I am proud to be selected for this distinguished award,” states Liam MacFarlane, Critical Sewers Engineer. “I could not have achieved this honor without the help of the team at Wessex Water and Julian Britton, Rehabilitation Manager.”

Liam MacFarlane joined Wessex Water in 2008 in the WECS trainee development programme, providing invaluable experience in all phase of project delivery, including optioneering, design, construction, commissioning, and handover.  In 2010, Mr. MacFarlane was appointed Critical Sewers Engineer at Wessex Water, responsible for the project management and delivery of sewer renovation projects that specialize in trenchless installations. Mr. MacFarlane earned his Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in Civil Engineering from the University of the West England in 2013.

“My involvement with Electro Scan started in 2013 with several kilometers of surveys in the Southwest of England,” stated Liam MacFarlane.  “We robustly trialed the Electro Scan technology identifying several improvements to the hardware and working closely with Electro Scan’s onsite team.”

Continued Liam MacFarlane, “Electro Scan was very successful in Mark, Somerset, England where forty-three (43) sewers were identified as the most critical assets with an infiltration rate of 12 litres per second (190.2 gallons per minute) or 1000m³ litres per day (273,900 gallons per day), costing the company over £120,000 ($180,000) per annum in operational expenditure.”

“With the UK’s Environmental Agency expectation to have every £1 cost of flood defense expenditure deliver £8 of benefit, all capital expenditures must bring best value,” stated Mr. MacFarlane. “As seen in our Somerset trials during the recent winter flooding, we were able to document the comparative cost/benefit. Prior to using Electro Scan we didn’t have the analytical tools to effectively use epoxy sealed CIPP, as CCTV surveys were inconclusive.  With Electro Scan, I can now demonstrate to my clients a conservative cost/benefit of at least £10-15; especially in geological areas where groundwater-induced hydraulic lithology threatens the stability of adjacent buildings.”

“We are honored to play a small part in Liam MacFarlane’s success,” commented Chuck Hansen, Chairman, Electro Scan. “We look forward to watching Mr. MacFarlane’s leadership in using technology to accelerate the pace of change in the field of civil engineering.”

During the last seven years, Wessex Water Services Limited has seen four of its engineers win the UKSTT’s prestigious Young Engineer award.  In addition to Liam MacFarlane’s selection this year, previous Wessex Water award recipients included Alex Aulds (2012), Leanne Ford (2010), and James Kitching (2008).

About Wessex Water
 Services Limited
Wessex Water Services Limited (“Wessex Water”) treats 475 million litres a day (125 MGD) of sewage from 2.7 million customers, managing more than 30,000 km (18,641 miles) of sewer, 405 sewage treatment works, 1,003 combined sewer overflows, and 1,515 pumping stations. Wessex Water also supplies 284 million litres of water a day (75 MGD) to 1.3 million people through a network of 110 water treatment works and 11,500 km (7,146 miles) of water main.  In May 2002, Wessex Water was acquired by YTL Power International of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

About Electro Scan
Electro Scan Inc. is a global leader in delivering pipeline defect detection instrumentation, in addition to mobile & cloud computing applications that meet the technological needs of leading sewer and water utilities, worldwide. Its products represent game-changing technology that precisely locates and measures (i.e. GPM, LPS) defect flows in pipes and certifies post-rehabilitation pipe renewals.  Electro Scan finds defects most often missed by legacy inspection techniques, often re-prioritizing capital and operating expenditures.  Privately-held, the company’s headquarters are located in Sacramento, California, USA, with its wholly-owned subsidiary, Electro Scan (Europe) Limited, located in Dublin, Ireland.

Contact
Electro Scan Inc.
 Janine Mullinix, 916-779-0660, 
info@electroscan.com

Nashville Metro Selects Compliance EnviroSystems for Electro Scan Project

Leading Sewer Evaluation Company to Electro Scan 57,000 ft of Sanitary Sewers 

Sacramento, California USA, March 18, 2014 — Electro Scan Inc. announced today that Nashville Metro Water Services selected Compliance EnviroSystems, LLC (CES) to complete a 57,000 ft. Electro Scan project.

Metro Water Services is a department of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County and is Tennessee’s largest provider of wastewater collection and treatment. Metro Water Services provides service to more than 176,000 water accounts and more than 189,000 sewer accounts, managing over 2,800 miles of water main and over 3,000 miles of sewer main. Brick and clay sewers were first constructed in 1823.

Founded in 1995, CES is a full service storm sewer and sanitary sewer evaluation firm with headquarters in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with offices throughout the Southeast and Eastern United States.  Known for its pioneering use of new technologies and commitment to deliver quality sewer inspection data, CES was instrumental in the clean-up work after hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005 and Nashville floods in 2010.

“We are delighted to put Electro Scan to work in Nashville,” says Joe Atol IV, Vice President of Operations, CES. “Our team had been tracking this technology [Electro Scan] for several years and liked the way it simulated wet weather conditions and ability to deliver comparative infiltration analysis per line segment.  The data creates a unique management tool for engineers and wastewater professionals.”

Electro Scan’s technology utilizes a patent-pending process to automatically find & measure defects not commonly detected by acoustical listening devices, infrared sensors, laser profilers, ground-penetrating radar or CCTV cameras to assess sewer, stormwater, and water pipes.

As part of the project, Electro Scan will be assisting CES to ensure project reporting is in compliance with ASTM F2550-13.

“I am pleased to be helping CES in Nashville,” states Chuck Hansen, Chairman of Electro Scan and former CEO of Hansen Information Technologies Inc. “I’ve always considered Metro Water Services to be an industry leader. In the early 1990s, I remember being so impressed with Metro’s manhole inspection form that I had my former software company re-design its system to make sure we captured the same data that Metro did.”

Added to existing TV Trucks or available as a standalone van, Electro Scan locates sources of infiltration and can detect post-rehabilitation defects to the closest 0.4 inches (1 centimeter) and estimate defect flows in gallons per minute (liters per second).

About Electro Scan

Electro Scan Inc. is a global leader in delivering pipeline defect detection instrumentation, mobile and cloud computing applications that meet the technological needs of water and wastewater utilities, commercial businesses, residential customers, and engineering organizations, worldwide. Privately-held with headquarters in Sacramento, California, USA, Electro Scan’s suite of next generation condition assessment technologies allows customers to manage, protect, operate and certify their sewer, storm, and water pipes.

Contacts

Electro Scan Inc.
 Janine Mullinix, 916-779-0660, 
info@electroscan.com

Compliance EnviroSystems, LLC, Joe Atol IV, 800-675-9409, jatol@ces-sses.com

Twin City Water & Sewer District, Ohio, Servicing 3,400 Sewer Customers, Purchases Electro Scan to Find Defects Missed by CCTV and to Certify Rehabilitation Projects

Sacramento, California, USA, February 24, 2014— Electro Scan Inc., announced today that the Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati (MSD) and Twin City Water & Sewer District, Ohio have selected the company’s award-winning ES-620 for Sewer MainsTM for advanced sewer condition assessment.

Electro Scan’s technology utilizes a patent-pending process to automatically find & measure defects not commonly detected by closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras, acoustical listening devices, infrared sensors, laser profilers, or ground-penetrating radar to assess sewer, stormwater, and water pipes.

Using its low voltage/high frequency technology, Electro Scan measures the variation of electrical current inside non-conductive pipes to automatically locate and measure potential leaks and sources of infiltration with data immediately accessible from its Critical Sewers® cloud application.

“We wanted to combine Electro Scan with our ongoing CCTV program to make sure we are not missing significant sources of infiltration,” states Michael Pittinger, P.E., Wastewater Collection Superintendent for MSD. “Since TV cameras typically operate during dry weather conditions, when pipes show little, if any, active leaks, Electro Scan’s simulated wet weather diagnostics give us a more complete assessment of our sewers to help prioritize our rehabilitation plans. While I have been watching this technology for some time, improvements in delivering its data and open architecture made it a good time to add it to our portfolio of assessment tools.”

“We really struggle identifying sources for infiltration during wet weather conditions,” says Donnie Fawcett, Superintendent of Twin City Water and Sewer District. “When pipes are surcharged, we can’t use TV cameras, and during dry weather conditions, we can’t easily identify any visible leaks.” Providing water and sewer services for the cities of Dennison and Uhrichsville, Ohio, Twin City Water and Sewer District was recently presented with a Certificate of Recognition by the Ohio EPA for recently completing a Source Water Protection Plan.

“I am delighted to support both MSD and Twin City in their missions,” states Chuck Hansen, Chairman and CEO, Electro Scan. “With sewer and water rates rising at a record pace to finance repairs and rehabilitation, leading utilities need to use the latest technologies to make sure they are fixing the right pipes, the first time.”
Last year, Electro Scan was selected for numerous awards, including the CleanTech Company of the Year by The New Economy Magazine, Best Technology Innovation by the Water Environment Federation, and Best New Product by the North American Society of Trenchless Technologies.

The company’s selection by MSD and Twin City Water and Sewer District is in keeping with each organization’s ongoing commitment to pursue cleaner, greener, and smarter strategies to help manage their respective businesses.
Added to existing TV Trucks or available as a standalone service vehicle, Electro Scan is able to assess pipes at the rate of +50 feet (15 meters) per minute, locating sources of infiltration defects to the closest 0.4 inches (1 centimeter) and estimating defect flow in gallons per minute (liters per second), in accordance with ASTM F2550-13.

MSD of Greater Cincinnati is a publicly-operated wastewater utility serving 43 out of 49 Hamilton County, Ohio political subdivisions, including parts of Butler, Clermont, and Warren. It has a ratepayer base of approximately 230,000 residential and commercial users and operates seven major wastewater treatment plants and more than 120 pump stations. MSD provides sewerage collection and treatment services to an area covering approximately more than 290 square miles, containing over 200,000 separate sewer connections and 3,000 miles of sanitary and combined sewers.

Twin City Water and Sewer District, Ohio manages over 100 miles of sewer main and 3,400 customers.
“CCTV will continue to be a good dry weather assessment tool to ‘see’ alignment problems, intrusions, and debris,” states Hansen, an industry expert in the field of sewer condition assessment.

Prior to founding Electro Scan, Hansen was CEO & Founder of Hansen Information Technologies, a leading global provider of asset management applications for water, sewer, and highway authorities, sold to Infor Global in 2007.
Both MSD and Twin City Water and Sewer District arranged their purchases through Cleveland, OH-based MTech Company, Electro Scan’s 2013 Dealer of the Year.

About Electro Scan
Electro Scan Inc. is a global leader in delivering pipeline defect detection instrumentation, mobile and cloud computing applications that meet the technological needs of water and wastewater utilities, commercial businesses, residential customers, and engineering organizations, worldwide. Privately-held with headquarters in Sacramento, California, USA, Electro Scan’s suite of next generation condition assessment technologies allows customers to manage, protect, operate and certify their sewer, storm, and water pipes.  For more information visit www.electroscan.com and “Like” us on Facebook.

Contact, Janine Mullinix, info@electroscan.com, +1 916 779 0660

The New Economy Selects Electro Scan Inc. as Recipient of Global 2013 Clean Tech Award

Electro Scan Also Selected as Finalist for 2014 GreenTec Award

London, ENGLAND, January 6, 2014 – Electro Scan Inc. has been awarded the 2013 Clean Tech Award for Best Water and Wastewater Solutions presented by The New Economy magazine in ceremonies held at the London Stock Exchange.

The New Economy

The New Economy is a quarterly magazine that captures the spirit of global thought leadership promoting innovation, transparency and sustainability, that reshapes the future.

Aimed at unearthing the new global clean tech elite – the champions of tomorrow – awards were announced in The New Economy’s Winter 2014 edition – one of the few periodicals authorized for distribution at the World Economic Forum held January 22-25, 2014 in Davos, Switzerland.

“We are delighted to announce Electro Scan as recipient of the 2013 Clean Tech Award for Best Water and Wastewater Solutions,” states Jan Spiegel, Editor of The New Economy magazine. “Disruptive technologies, like Electro Scan, that alter decisions often represent the biggest breakthroughs in our economy.”

See The New Economy’s Video Interview of Electro Scan’s Chuck Hansen on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_PH8oCMccA.

“We are pleased to be recognized for our game-changing products,” states Chuck Hansen, Chairman & CEO, Electro Scan Inc. “Besides growing revenues over ten times in the last twelve months, this is a great way to start the year.”

Electro Scan’s technology overhauls the condition assessment of sewers, storm drains, and water pipes by finding & measuring defects not detected by the most advanced closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras.

Easily added to existing TV trucks and able to assess pipes at the rate of +50 feet (15 meters) per minute, Electro Scan automatically locates defects to the closest 0.4 inches (1 centimeter). More importantly, it provides an estimated defect flow in gallons per minute (liters per second).

Electro Scan is able to deliver an immediate return on investment by finding defects in recently relined pipes and new construction projects – previously not found by CCTV – protecting investments in CAPEX and delivery of ‘leak-free’ rehabilitation projects in accordance with ASTM F2550-13.

“CCTV will continue to be a good dry weather assessment tool to ‘see’ alignment problems, intrusions, and debris,” states Hansen, an industry expert in the field of sewer condition assessment.  Prior to founding Electro Scan, Hansen was CEO & Founder of Hansen Information Technologies, a leading global provider of asset management applications for water, sewer, and highway authorities, sold to Infor Global in 2007.

“Unfortunately, CCTV’s inability to be used during wet weather conditions, poor track record in finding leaks or sources of infiltration, inconsistent defect-scoring by operators, and inability to certify rehabilitation projects as ‘leak-free’, may have inadvertently caused utilities to incorrectly prioritize their worst pipes and unknowingly accept rehabilitation or new construction projects having serious defects,” states Hansen.

Acknowledged globally for establishing an unrivalled multimedia platform, The New Economy’s Clean Tech Awards focus on technology, energy, business and strategy that are positioned to solve important environmental challenges and help achieve sustainability.

Electro Scan Chosen as Finalist for 2014 GreenTec Award
Separately, Electro Scan was selected as a ‘Finalist’ in the ‘Water & Sewage’ category for Europe’s largest Environmental and Business Prize – the GreenTec Awards.  Representing the only North American finalist in in the Water and Sewage category, including eight (8) German companies and one (1) Danish company, the general public is invited to Vote Online for their favorite company through February 13, 2014. GreenTec award winners will be announced at the 2014 IFAT Conference, May 5-9, 2014, München, Germany.

About Electro Scan
Electro Scan Inc. is a global leader in delivering pipeline defect detection instrumentation, smartphone, and cloud computing applications that meet the technological needs of water and wastewater utilities, commercial businesses, residential customers, and engineering organizations, worldwide. Privately-held with headquarters in Sacramento, California, USA, Electro Scan’s suite of next generation condition assessment technologies allows customers to manage, protect, operate and certify their sewer, storm, and water pipes.

Contact: Janine Mullinix, email: info@electroscan.com, telephone: +1 916 779 0660

Water Environment Federation Names Electro Scan ‘Best Innovative Technology’

WEF Honors Breakthrough Technology That Converts Sewer TV Trucks to Identify Leaks & Defects, Not Seen or Recorded by High-Resolution CCTV Cameras

Sacramento, California, USA, July 22, 2013 — Electro Scan Inc., a global innovator of leak detection instrumentation and cloud computing applications, announced today its selection by the Water Environment Federation (WEF) as recipient of the 2013 Innovative Technology Award. The prestigious award was given to Electro Scan’s ES-620 leak detection product, an add-on to existing television inspection trucks that accurately locates and measures leaks in sewers, not visible by high-resolution CCTV cameras.

“We are delighted to be recognized by our colleagues,” stated Chuck Hansen, CEO of Electro Scan and wastewater pioneer. “Not since the introduction of TV cameras to televise sewers has a technology so quickly and radically changed the way we locate defects and certify repairs as leak-free. Electro Scan changes everything: from deciding which pipes to fix, to determining final acceptance of point repairs and lining projects.”

“Electro Scan adds a new dimension to sewer condition assessments,” stated Charles Wilmut, P.E., former Senior Vice President, Burgess & Niple, and early adopter of Electro Scan. “While CCTV provides an operator with a good overall visual account of a pipe, it is unable to locate and measure defects that cannot be seen. It’s not just the fact that Electro Scan finds more defects than CCTV, but it also measures the estimated magnitude of each defect, something never before available.”

Jim Eger, Executive Director, Water Environment Federation.

“Congratulations on being selected for this significant honor,” stated Jeff Eger, WEF’s Executive Director. The award recognized the Company’s contribution to improving water quality and will be presented at the 86th Annual Water Environment Federation Technical Exhibition and Conference (WEFTEC), October 5-9, 2013.

Electro Scan uses its patent-pending technology to generate an intense, focused array, of low-voltage/high-frequency electrical current to examine the walls of pipes for defects. If a pipe is in good condition, no current will be able to “leak” or escape out of the pipe and into the ground, unless there is a crack. All bad joints, defective service connections, and breaks in a pipe, are found by Electro Scan, not typically seen or recorded by visual inspection, laser profiling, sonar, or ground penetrating radar.

Designed to integrate with existing CCTV trucks, data from the Electro Scan probe is fed back via the truck’s existing cable to Electro Scan’s proprietary control unit, and then uploaded to the Electro Scan Cloud.

A benchmark comparison of water pressure testing and Electro Scan was conducted in 2012 at the Milwaukee Metro Sewer District (MMSD). In a project jointly sponsored by the Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF) and the USEPA, the study specifically compared Electro Scan to a number of condition assessment techniques to evaluate sewer laterals. While pressure testing identified a sewer lateral as PASSING, indicating a leakage rate of about 1 gallon per minute, Electro Scan found a significant number of leaks on the same pipe, including accurately locating specific defect locations, size, and estimated peak Gallons per Minute (GPM). Encrustations at defective joints had temporarily re-sealed defects in the lateral causing pressure testing to record a False-Positive result. As part of the same study, Electro Scan found 555 defects compared to 160 defects found with CCTV, evaluating the same pipes in a single residential survey area.

Earlier this year, Electro Scan won the Joseph L. Abbott, Jr. Product Innovation Award presented by the North American Society of Trenchless Technologies and the Sierra Nevada Innovation Challenge for Best CleanTech.

The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) estimate capital needs for the U.S. wastewater infrastructure market of almost $300 billion over the next twenty years with aging pipes discharging 900 billion gallons of untreated sewage, each year. Hundreds of billions of dollars have been spent to add extra treatment plant capacity to process water entering through leaks in sewers, frequently causing residential and commercial sewer back-ups, manhole overflows, and sinkholes, each year.

The worldwide market for televising sewers represents nearly 15,000 CCTV trucks, excluding push cameras for evaluating smaller diameter pipes. Representing a budgeted upgrade cost of approximately US$150,000, authorized worldwide Electro Scan Dealers can install Electro Scan in new and existing television trucks, allowing field operators to switch from CCTV to Electro Scan, and back again, within minutes.

Advantages of the Electro Scan technology include its ability to scan pipes that are either full or partially full of water and provide automated leak detection information, including location to the nearest 0.4 inches (1 cm) and estimated peak GPM. While CCTV cameras are rarely, if ever, used during wet weather, Electro Scan, combined with CCTV, provides a year-round solution.

Electro Scan products are designed in accordance with ASTM Standard 2550-06 to assess non-conductive pipe materials (e.g. asbestos cement, brick, clay, plastic, resin lining, reinforced concrete, etc.).

Founded in 1928, the Water Environment Federation (WEF) is a not-for-profit association with more than 36,000 members worldwide providing technical education and training for water quality professionals who clean water and return it safely to the environment.

About Electro Scan
Electro Scan Inc. is a leading global provider of leak detection instrumentation and cloud computing applications that meet the technological needs of water utilities, commercial businesses, residential customers, and engineering organizations worldwide. Electro Scan offers the next generation in condition assessment evaluation technologies that allow customers to manage, protect, operate and certify their infrastructure. For more information visit www.electroscan.com and “Like” us on Facebook.

Contact, Janine Mullinix, info@electroscan.com, +1 916 779 0660

Electro Scan Inc. Wins 2013 Award for ‘Best New CleanTech Product Innovation’

Sacramento-based Leak Detection, Smartphone, and Cloud Application Developer, Selected in Statewide Competition

Chico, California USA, June 27, 2013 – Today, Electro Scan Inc. won the 2013 Award for ‘Best New Product Innovation’ in Cleantech at the 2nd Annual Sierra Nevada Innovation Challenge competition.

Presented by Innovate North State, the Sierra Nevada Innovation Challenge competition was held at the Sierra Nevada Brewing Company’s “Big Room” auditorium in Chico, California.

A GLOBIE Award was presented in each of five industry categories, including Food and Ag, Web and Information Technology, Cleantech, won by Electro Scan Inc., Manufacturing, and Healthcare.

The Sierra Nevada Innovation Challenge is the only statewide Most Innovative Product Competition focused principally on California businesses located outside of San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Los Angeles and San Diego. Each finalist was given 6-minutes to explain how their new product changes the world, an industry, people’s lives or the environment in a positive, meaningful way.

In March 2013, Electro Scan Inc. was awarded the prestigious Joseph L. Abbott, Jr. Award for Product Innovation by the National Association of Trenchless Technologies (NASTT) at the organization’s No-Dig event.

Over 70 industry experts from throughout California will be on-site serving as judges including CEOs, media representatives, angel investors, venture capitalists, university and government officials and corporate executives.

“We were impressed with Electro Scan’s game-changing innovation and are honored to have Electro Scan win our Cleantech category,” stated Jon Gregory, Managing Director, Innovate North State.

The American Society of Civil Engineers estimate capital needs for the U.S. wastewater infrastructure of $298 billion over the next twenty years with aging pipes discharging 900 billion gallons of untreated sewage, each year.

Judges found that Electro Scan represents a breakthrough in the multi-billion dollar sewer inspection market, overhauling how sewer utilities identify and prioritize pipe defects. More reliable than visual inspection techniques using legacy closed-circuit television cameras, Electro Scan was viewed as a disruptive technology gaining global acceptance.

According to Innovate North State Managing Director Jon Gregory, who serves as the Executive Producer of the event, “the Sierra Nevada Innovation Challenge represents a once-a-year hotbed of the best innovation occurring in emerging markets of California.” He continued, “We were impressed with Electro Scan’s game-changing innovation and are honored to have the company compete as one of the finalists.”

“We were delighted to be recognized by the judges,” stated Chuck Hansen, Electro Scan’s CEO and Presenter. “Electro Scan is being consistently recognized as a groundbreaking technology that truly advancing owner’s ability to correctly assess their wastewater collection infrastructure. Electro Scan’s ability to evaluate existing, newly repaired, and relined sewer for defects, leap-frogs legacy visual inspection techniques that has been around for almost sixty years.”

About Electro Scan
Electro Scan Inc. is a leading global provider of leak detection instrumentation and cloud computing applications that meet the technological needs of water utilities, commercial businesses, residential customers, and engineering organizations worldwide. Electro Scan offers the next generation in condition assessment evaluation technologies that allow customers to manage, protect, operate and certify their infrastructure. “Like” us on Facebook.

About Innovate North State
Innovate North State – a public/private partnership driven by CEOs of leading California North State businesses – was established in early 2012. Innovate North State’s goal is to assist the region’s most innovative companies who have the largest growth potential garner a larger share of their national and global markets resulting in a more vibrant regional economy. It focuses on 5 key industry sectors: Sustainable Agriculture and Food; Manufacturing and Consumer Products; Cleantech and Environmental; Web, Mobile, and IT; and Healthcare and Medical Technology. With the mantra of “connecting to compete” Innovate North State’s strategy involves helping innovative companies connect with each other and also to vital resources located outside the region, making the North State the most economically competitive non-metropolitan region in the U.S. by 2017.

Contacts:
Innovate North State: Jon Gregory, Managing Director, jon@innovate-northstate.com, 530-892-1707
Electro Scan Inc.: Janine Mullinix, info@electroscan.com, 916-779-0660

Leading Sewer Leak Detection Company and World’s Leading Pipeline Inspection Developer, Supplier of WinCan, to Offer Integrated Solution

Sacramento, California, USA, June 17, 2013— Electro Scan Inc., a global innovator of leak detection instrumentation and Swiss-based CD Lab AG, the world’s leading provider of sewer pipeline assessment software, with its leading flagship product, WinCan, today announced a global partnership to offer an integrated solution.

The cooperative agreement, executed by Chuck Hansen, Chairman & CEO of Electro Scan Inc. and Martin Hien, General Manager of CD Lab AG, includes development of a custom Electro Scan module, to be added to the suite of WinCan products, able to import, store, and display Electro Scan’s patent-pending data downloaded from its Critical Sewers^TM Cloud app.  Product features and capabilities are expected to be similar to other popular WinCan modules, such as its WinCan Laser module.  The new Electro Scan Module is expected for release in the first quarter of 2014.

Chuck Hansen, Electro Scan Inc. & Martin Hien, CD Lab AG, Murten, Switzerland.

“We are excited to work with such a universally-accepted product, like WinCan,” states Electro Scan’s Chuck Hansen. “I’ve been watching WinCan, with amazement, for many years and am delighted to see their product evolve into such a feature-rich solution to manage wastewater assets.”

“We are delighted to be expanding our product library to include Electro Scan,” states CD Lab’s Martin Hien. “Chuck and his team have done a great job adding a new level of data to our industry. Combined with CCTV and Laser Profiling data, our customers will have an unprecedented decision tool at their fingertips to manage their aging infrastructure.”

“The addition of Electro Scan further solidifies WinCan’s leadership as a key decision support system to help  manage wastewater assets,” comments Mike Russin, Business Manager of Pipeline Analytics, Inc. As CD Lab’s exclusive distributor for WinCan products in North and South America, Pipeline Analytics will be supporting the new partnership with implementation services and training.

CD Lab AG, headquartered in Murten, Switzerland, designs, develops, and markets the world’s leading pipeline inspection software, WinCan. Founded in 1990, the company specializes in the inspection and administration of wastewater infrastructure having more than 6,400 licensed installations, translated into 46 different languages, supporting 50 different CCTV inspection standards, and sold through over 80 resellers worldwide.

Electro Scan products are designed and developed in accordance with ASTM Standard 2550-06 to accurately identify, locate, and measure the estimated peak rate of infiltration from defects in sewer and stormwater pipes.  In addition to assessing non-conductive pipe materials (e.g. asbestos cement, brick, clay, plastic, resin lining, reinforced concrete, etc.), Electro Scan is able to certify point repairs and lining projects as “leak-free.”

About Electro Scan
Electro Scan Inc. is a leading global provider of leak detection instrumentation and cloud computing applications that meet the technological needs of water utilities, commercial businesses, residential customers, and engineering organizations worldwide.  Electro Scan offers the next generation in condition assessment evaluation technologies that allow customers to manage, protect, operate and certify their infrastructure.  For more information visit www.electroscan.com and “Like” us on Facebook.

Contact, Janine Mullinix, info@electroscan.com, +1 916 779 0660

New Technology Finds Sources of Infiltration That Cause Sewer Overflows & Backups; Certifies Point Repairs and Lining Projects as “Leak Free”

Sacramento, California, USA, June 3, 2013 — Electro Scan Inc., a global leader of pipeline defect detection instrumentation, smartphone, and cloud computing applications, today announced an agreement with Prism Contractors & Engineers, Inc. (Yorktown, Virginia) to conduct a 20,000 ft. Electro Scan project in Hampton Roads, Virginia.

A key objective for the project will be to Electro Scan all sewer mains in a designated area of a local sewer authority and provide specific locations for each defect and pipe segment, including an estimated peak infiltration rate in Gallons per Minute (GPM).

Sewer authorities in Hampton Roads are currently operating under a USEPA Unilateral Administrative Order (UAO) and a State of Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) Special Consent By Order to reduce the frequency and severity of sanitary sewer overflows (SSOs) taking specific actions to develop a Regional Wet Weather Management Plan (RWWMP).

“Everyone knows that CCTV is a great tool to record alignment problems, grease, and other obstructions in sewer pipes during low-flow and dry weather conditions,” states Chuck Hansen, Electro Scan’s CEO. ”But, rarely, if ever, can CCTV operators measure or even ‘see’ leaks, especially at joints, service connections, and in laterals. Since CCTV is typically never done during rainy conditions – when an operator would most likely ‘see’ a leak – and cannot be used when a pipe is full, it hasn’t been an effective tool in finding infiltration. But, CCTV has been the only thing available… that is, until Electro Scan.”

“Electro Scan represents a breakthrough in sewer condition assessment,” states Chuck Hansen, former CEO of Hansen Information Technologies and an industry pioneer in CCTV and condition assessment technologies. “Electro Scan’s ability to work in dry & wet weather conditions and when a pipe is partially or full of water, represents a new era in condition assessment. Available as an add-on to any existing CCTV truck, data is uploaded to our cloud-based Critical Sewers^TM application. Able to easily switchover in the field, Electro Scan & CCTV represent a total solution for sewer authorities, regulators, and engineers to help prevent sewer overflows, backups, and basement flooding.”

“We are delighted to partner with Electro Scan for this important project,” states David A. Reaves, P.E., Founder & President of Prism.  “Working at a rate of 40-50 ft a minute, electro scan promises to be a great tool to quickly and easily locate ‘hot spots’ and to help pre- and post-rehab decision making.”

Founded in 1997, Prism Contractors & Engineers, Inc. is a full service civil engineering, design, construction, and inspection firm with clients in the eastern United States. Equipped with three (3) IBAK CCTV trucks, Prism has completed over 1.5 million ft of NASSCO PACP-based CCTV projects since 2009.

Electro Scan products are designed in accordance with ASTM Standard F2550-06 and able to identify, locate, and measure defects. Premium users are provided an estimated peak rate of infiltration, by defect. In addition to assessing non-conductive pipe materials (e.g. asbestos cement, brick, clay, plastic, resin lining, reinforced concrete, etc.), Electro Scan assesses pipe diameters ranging from 3 to 60 inches (76 to 1500mm) and can determine if previously completed point repairs & lining projects are ‘leak-free.’

About Electro Scan
Electro Scan Inc. is global leader in delivering pipeline defect detection instrumentation, smartphone, and cloud computing applications that meet the technological needs of wastewater utilities, commercial businesses, residential customers, and engineering organizations worldwide. Electro Scan’s suite of next generation condition assessment technologies allows customers to manage, protect, operate and certify their infrastructure. In 2013, Electro Scan’s ES-620 for Sewer Mains^TM won the Joseph L. Abbott, Jr. ‘Product Innovation of the Year’ Award from the North American Society for Trenchless Technology (NASTT). Visit us and “Like” us on Facebook.