Smart sanitary sewer evaluation
Stop studying your sewer system. Start understanding it.
Smart Sewers turns inspection data, sensor intelligence, and hydraulic modeling into one living digital twin of your collection system — so you can find, fix, and forecast problems before they cost millions.
PINPOINT I&I AFTER ONE RAIN EVENT · WITHOUT INSPECTING THE OTHER 80% OF THE SYSTEM
U.S. Sewer Pipe
500K+miles
Public sanitary sewer pipe across America. 20–40× the circumference of Earth.
Sanitary Manholes
~6.5M
Each one a potential I&I entry point. Most are completely unmonitored.
Underserved Communities
10K+
Small-to-mid utilities (5K–50K pop.) priced out of traditional SSES.
I&I as % of Flow
20–45%
Of total wastewater flow is rainwater and groundwater that shouldn't be there.
The real problem
You don't have a capacity problem.
You have a visibility problem.
Most utilities are running their collection systems on the same approach they used in 1995. Inspect everything. Hope you find something. Repeat in five years.
The data tells a different story: 80% of your system is fine. 20% causes most of the problem. The question isn't what condition is the pipe in — it's which 20% actually matters.
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You inspect 100% of the system
Crews CCTV miles of pipe to find inches of defect. Most of what gets inspected is fine.
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You rely on snapshots
Flow meters give you 3–5 data points across an entire basin. They miss what's happening on a Tuesday at 4:17 AM during a storm.
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You find defects, not impact
CCTV finds cracks. It doesn't tell you which crack is letting in 50,000 gallons during a rain event.
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And then you build bigger plants
Without visibility, utilities expand treatment plants for $50M – $500M+ — when the actual problem is leaks they can't see.
The Pareto truth
20% of your system causes 80% of your problem.
It's not a slogan. It's how collection systems behave. Field studies with dense micro-monitoring consistently find that the vast majority of inflow and infiltration enters through a small handful of micro-basins.
Smart Sewers doesn't try to inspect everything. It identifies the basins that actually matter — sometimes after a single rain event — and lets you focus your money where it moves the needle.
See the math80 segments · fine
20 segments · driving 80% of I&I
Find the amber 20. Skip the rest.
The cost comparison
Traditional SSES costs $29 to $118 per foot.
Smart Sewers starts at $1.32.
Same goal. Same regulatory standards. Same defensible methods. Different math — because you're no longer paying to inspect the 80% of the system that isn't the problem.
Method
Per Linear Foot
17,000 LF Basin
Time to Result
Traditional SSES
Full basin · CCTV everywhere
$29 – $118PER FOOT
$500K – $2MPER BASIN
6–12 moMULTIPLE STORMS
Smart Sewers — Micro Detection
iTracker sensors only
$1.32PER FOOT
$22,44017,000 LF BASIN
1 storm~7 DAYS
Smart Sewers — Full Program
Sensors + CCTV + smoke + modeling
$5 – $15PER FOOT
$85K – $255K17,000 LF BASIN
4–8 wkTARGETED
Savings vs. Traditional
up to 96%
~$1.7M
10× faster
Sample basin · 17,000 LF
One mid-sized basin. Same answer. Different price tag.
Traditional SSES (mid-range)$1,250,000
Smart Sewers Full Program$170,000
Avoided spend$1,080,000
Test it on one basin