The City of Grapevine, Texas USA, provides its population of 52,000 people every day with fresh water, but they also make sure raw water is safely delivered to the treatment plant. The city’s raw water main, which is re-constructed in 1983, is pumping untreated water to the drinking water production plant of Grapevine. The pipeline being 40 years old reached its theoretical lifetime of 50 years and was considered for renewal. The city chose to “inspect before investing”. The Acquarius was the perfect tool for this inspection, which led to Acquaint’s first overseas inspection.
Invest in replacement of pipeline, or inspect with Acquaint
The city faced a critical choice: whether to renew or inspect the aging crucial 20-inch bar wrapped rawwater main which is approaching its theoretical end of lifetime. “When I discovered that Acquaint’s tools utilize ultrasound waves, my interest as a chemist, was instantly sparked’’, Jimmy Didehbani utility manager of the City of Grapevine said. With its mainly ultrasonic sensors, the Acquarius assesses the condition of transport, pressure and sewer pipelines over many miles in a single run. The Acquarius then transmits this measurement data to Acquaint’s cloud platform. After data analysis, it offers insight into the current condition of a pipeline. The Acquarius performs internal condition assessment in any pressurized water or wastewater pipeline with a diameter starting at DN200. The intelligent tool is applicable in (high-risk) pipelines of any material such as concrete, asbestos cement, cast iron, steel and HPDE/PVC/GRP. The pipeline that had to be inspected in the City of Grapevine was a bar wrapped concrete DN500 water pipeline of which the city wanted a full condition assessment. All these aspects made the Acquarius the perfect tool to inspect this…
