28 Jan 2025
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Last month, Pittsburgh Water celebrated its 12,000th lead water pipe removal as it maintains its breakneck speed to eliminate all lead pipes by 2027.

Pittsburgh Water Adds Swordfish to Maintain Record Setting Pace to Eliminate All Lead Pipes by 2027. Last month, Pittsburgh Water celebrated its 12,000th lead water pipe removal as it maintains its breakneck speed.

January 28, 2025

Electro Scan Inc. announced today that the Board of Pittsburgh Water (PGH2O) approved a $12.1 million contract that requires SWORDFISH lead pipe inspection, prior to pipe replacement.

The contract was awarded to Wilson Excavating (Reynoldsville, PA) for PGH2o’s 2024 Neighborhood Lead Service Line Replacement (LSLR) Contract requiring SWORDFISH testing.

Electro Scan’s exclusive service partner, Element 82, a division of Crown (NASDAQ: CRKN), is set to perform SWORDFISH testing on all water service lines for the 1,600 homes.

“We congratulate Wilson Excavating for winning this competitive bid and applaud the visionary leadership of Will Pickering (CEO, PGH2O) and Dan Duffy (Principal at East Woods Consultants, LLC) for pioneering lead pipe identification and remediation,” states Mike App, Executive Vice President, Electro Scan Inc.

PGH2O remains on track to eliminate all lead service lines by 2027.

READ THE PRESS RELEASE

17 Jan 2025
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Electro Scan Small Utility Pricing Matrix Final

New Pricing Allows Populations With Less Than 15,000 to Adopt Electro Scan’s SWORDFISH

January 17, 2025

Working with several rural water associations, the Electro Scan team has come to realize the monumental task many water systems have to inventory their water service lines. As the only commercially available smart tool that automatically identifies copper, galvanized, plastic, and lead pipes, Electro Scan now offers special SWORDFISH and SWORDFISH Flow Express pricing.

Contact:
Chris Brown, Business Development Specialist
Email: chrisbrown@electroscan.com
Call or Text: 916-541-6346

03 Dec 2024
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EPA Calls Electrical Resistance Testing ‘Only Currently Available’ Innovative Solution to Locate Lead Pipes

December 3, 2024

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

15 Nov 2024
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CEO, Chuck Hansen Takes to the Airwaves to Show How Looking Into a Meter Box Doesn’t Find Lead

November 15, 2024

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.