New Castle County (DE) was featured in the Delaware Public Media for reducing sanitary sewer overflows by 67% since 2005. Officials attribute their success to utilizing acoustic inspection to identify problematic areas and cleaning them before overflows happen. “The cost of doing proactive cleaning is much less than the cost of cleaning up an overflow.”- Rob Roff, Operations Service Manager
Read full article in Delaware Public Media here.
InfoSense is pleased to announce that Walt Woodard has joined the company as the Global Sales Director. Walt has over 30 years of sales, management and business development experience in a variety of capital intensive industries. He has an MBA and a BS in Chemistry from Georgia Southern University. InfoSense CEO Alex Churchill said, “We are excited to bring Walt on board. His background and experience will help us accelerate the adoption of the SL-RAT® globally.”
The SL-RAT (Sewer Line Rapid Assessment Tool) is helping the Taupo District in New Zealand get a better understanding of pipe blockage conditions before allocating cleaning resources. The acoustic testing is helping the city to prevent sewer overflows before they happen. The SL-RAT is being used to discover and map out the trouble spots in the Taupo district according to Michael Cordell, the Water and Waste Asset Manager.
The SL-RAT (Sewer Line Rapid Assessment Tool) was featured in a local news report for Columbia, SC as an innovative tool the city is using to reduce sewer overflows. The Congaree Riverkeeper announced that such steps to improve the city’s maintenance program has allowed for vast improvements to river conditions – recording the lowest total volume of sewer spills in five years.