Visually inspect pipe interior surfaces while the pipe remains in-service and pressurized. Using a high quality video output that requires no post-processing, real-time video inspection enables utilities to immediately spot tuberculation and potential obstructions, observe dynamic operating conditions and characteristics, and check the internal condition of joints, liners, valves, repairs, and other water main features. Pipeline condition assessment services from Wachs Water Services are ideal for distribution and transmission mains, and avoid the high cost and complexity of dewatering a pipeline, or excavating buried pipeline assets or roadway surfaces for inspection. Non-disruptive in-service pipe inspection and assessment enables water utilities and pipeline operators to cost-effectively determine the condition of their water transmission systems, and selectively rehabilitate only those pipe sections with compromised structural or mechanical integrity.

Investigator™
The Investigator™ can be launched through fire hydrants, pressure fittings, air valves, gate valves and flow meter fittings for combined video and leak inspections of water mains sized 3 to 24 inches. Learn more.

• With the Investigator™ video service, you can be confident that you made the right Investments
• Eliminate need for costly and disruptive excavations
• Eliminate costly replacement/lining of pipes that are still in good condition
• Comparison pipeline degradation over time
• Gain understanding of actual pipe condition and set priorities based on actual need
• Maximize aging infrastructure investments
• Investigator™ video services have virtually the same total inspection cost of gravity main video inspections

The Investigator™ high quality video service can identify:

• Closed water main valves
• Undocumented water main valves
• Water main tuberculation levels
• Illegal water main connections
• Pipeline material
• Improperly installed liner
• Diameter changes
• Water main corrosion
• Debris accumulation
• Lost free-swimming tools
• Over 20 additional data points