Sacramento-based sewer assessment company wins technology contract with Kansas City

Sacramento-based pipeline assessment company Electro Scan, Inc. won a contract with Kansas City, Missouri, to provide its technology in a 22-mile sewer assessment project.

Kansas City entered a 25-year agreement in 2010 with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, establishing its $4.5 billion Smart Sewer program aimed at reducing sewer overflows and backups and improving infrastructure.

Electro Scan, which specializes in advanced probes that can locate and measure leaks in pipes, will be licensing its technology for the assessment, while other national contractors will be conducting the field work, according to a company news release.

“We are delighted to work with the internationally-recognized Kansas City Smart Sewer program to use our machine-intelligent Focused Electrode Leak Location (FELL) instrumentation to automatically identify and measure sources of infiltration,” Electro Scan chairman Chuck Hansen said in a prepared statement.

Kansas City will use Electro Scan’s technology to establish a baseline leakage rate before addressing the leaks in order to calculate a percent reduction in infiltration, according to the release.

Through the Smart Sewer program, Kansas City leadership has surveyed 97 percent of its sewer mains using cameras and visual inspection, and the program is expected to find $1 billion in cost efficiencies, according to the release.

Kansas City has previously used Electro Scan technology for sewer assessment, including a 23,000-foot assessment agreed on in 2017.

Electro Scan was founded in 2011 and its headquarters are located on Markston Road in Sacramento.