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Highlights
THE BOTTOM LINE
GPRS ensured facilities managers at a manufacturing facility in Kent, Washington could efficiently and safely repair a leak that was flooding the employee entrance to their facility and costing them thousands of dollars in non-revenue water loss.
INDUSTRY
SERVICE
LOCATION
Kent, Washington
PM Insight
Deliverables
PROJECT APPLICATION
ASK
Task
Pinpoint the location of a leak in an underground water line that was causing flooding at the employee entrance of a manufacturing facility.
PROBLEM
- Standing water at the employee entrance of the facility was costing the property owners thousands of dollars in non-revenue water loss
- Employees were forced to use an alternate entrance farther away from their parking lot
- The long-time facility manager had recently retired, taking with him his decades of institutional knowledge about the facility’s buried infrastructure
- Two other leak detection companies had misidentified the location of the leak, leading to costly, destructive, and ultimately fruitless excavation
Solution
- GPRS deployed GPR and EM locating to locate and map the numerous buried water lines entering the building
- Once the lines were located, acoustic leak detection equipment was deployed to pinpoint the location of the leak
- GPRS scanned the concrete directly above the leak’s location, allowing the contractor to core drill to conduct repairs
Benefits
- GPRS’ use of multiple forms of subsurface investigation technology allowed the client to core confidently into the concrete to conduct the repair with minimal surface disruption
- With the flooding mitigated, employees could resume using their usual entrance to the building
- Because the client was able to repair the leak, they mitigated further costs associated with non-revenue water loss
CASE STUDY GALLERY
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