You're paying full treatment cost to pump rainwater. Let's stop that.
Jetting and cleaning, CCTV inspection, smoke testing, root and grease control, manhole rehabilitation, and lift station maintenance for municipal and district collection systems.
Clear water in a sanitary sewer is a budget line too.
On the water side it's called non-revenue water. On the sewer side it's inflow and infiltration — groundwater and stormwater getting into your collection system through cracked pipe, bad joints, leaky manholes, and connections that shouldn't exist. Treating it costs $2 to $5 per thousand gallons, same as the water you actually sell.
A system taking on 150 million gallons a year of clear water pays $300,000 to $750,000 to treat rain. And capacity spent on rainwater is capacity you can't sell to growth — EPA's own guidance lists "avoid the capital costs of treatment plant expansion" as the reason districts chase I&I.
Two-thirds of blockages are maintenance problems, not capital problems.
Figures: EPA Report to Congress on CSOs/SSOs (EPA-833-R-04-001) and EPA's FOG pretreatment fact sheet (EPA-833-F-12-003); root control longevity from EPA 832-F-99-031. EPA estimates 23,000–75,000 sanitary sewer overflows a year nationally.
What we do in a collection system
Jetting & system cleaning
High-pressure water scours grease, grit, and debris from your mains; the vacuum truck removes it instead of pushing it downstream. EPA's checklist expects 8–14% of your system cleaned every year — we make that a schedule, not a someday.
CCTV inspection
A camera and a coded condition report for every foot inspected — because 80% of problems live in 25% of the pipe, and inspection tells you which 25% before you spend.
Smoke & dye testing
Non-toxic smoke finds where rainwater gets in — bad laterals, yard drains, broken cleanouts. Dye testing proves which fixture connects where. The fast, cheap front end of an I&I program.
Root & grease control
Mechanical cutting clears the blockage today; treatment programs keep it from coming back heavier next year. FOG problems get a program, not just an emergency call.
Manhole inspection & rehab
A bad lid or cracked chimney is a rainwater funnel straight into your plant. Inspection on a cycle, then sealing, lining, and inserts where they pay for themselves.
Lift station cleaning & maintenance
Wet well pump-outs, float and alarm checks, grease cap removal — the unglamorous work that keeps the 2am high-level alarm from being your problem.
Kentucky requires the program. Kentucky also funds the fix.
KPDES permits require a CMOM program — including a system map with five years of overflow locations and a manhole and pump station inspection schedule. Most small systems don't have the crew hours to build one. And the KY WWATERS fund wrote I&I into eligibility: documenting that infiltration "seriously impairs" your system is literally a funding criterion. The inspection work that satisfies your permit is the same work that qualifies your grant application.
Start with what your plant is telling you.
If wet-weather flow at the plant spikes far above dry-weather flow, your collection system is drinking rain. One conversation about your flow numbers tells us where to look first.
Call (270) 970-0310