Trenchless Technology Reports on the City of Charlotte Using Infosense SL-RATTM Technology

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The City of Charlotte, NC has been responsible for maintaining service to more
than 229,000 connections through 4,100-plus miles of sewer collection pipe
spread over the 524 square miles of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.
Maintaining these collections of infrastructure has been a challenging task for
this growing southeastern United States city.

In an effort to make the daunting task of maintenance easier, Charlotte-
Mecklenburg Utilities Division (CMUD), partnered with the University of North
Carolina at Charlotte in the year 2005 to develop new technologies for pipeline
and infrastructure inspection.

The basic research took two years and has led to a further five-year field
partnership between CMUD and InfoSense, the company that was formed to
commercialize the University’s patented acoustic inspection technology.
Through all the development, CMUD steadfastly supported the concept.
Senior engineer John Fishburne said, "The acoustic inspection device created
was the result of years of partnership between CMUD, academia, and private
enterprise. When that collaboration happens, good things — revolutionary
things — can happen."

Fast forward to 2012 and InfoSense’s Sewer-Line Rapid Assessment Tool (SL-
RATTM) has inspected more than 1 million ft of pipe.

Read the full article at trenchlessonline.com
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