Water Online includes American Leak Detections¹ Battle of the Correlators in their H20XPO pre-show e-newsletter.

American Leak Detection conducted a side-by-side field evaluation of eight different leak detection correlators where Echologics came out on top.

Trenchless Technology features Caledon Ski Resort¹s Case Study

A world famous ski resort uses Echologics¹ leak detection services to non-invasively pinpoint their underground leak.

Echologics Triumphs in American Leak Detection’s ‘Battle Of The Correlators’

In order to determine which correlators will help its specialists to most accurately and efficiently detect leaks on metallic and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) pipes in various scenarios – without having to break ground or disrupt service – American Leak Detection conducted “The Battle of the Correlators,” a side-by-side field evaluation of eight different leak detection correlators.

The Battle Of New Orleans

A city struggles to find and fix water leaks caused by Katrina.

Reducing Cost and Heading Off Disaster

Echologics won a $990,000 contract with the Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans (SWBNO) to oversee its water loss management and water pipe integrity assessment initiative.

Leak Detection Service Helps Plug Main Leak Under River

UWNJ selected Toronto-based Echologics Engineering for a transmission main leak detection pilot survey.

ACE11: Notes From The Exhibition Floor

The staff of Mueller Water Products was in full force at ACE11, representing its many subsidiary companies and capabilities.

Canadian Technology Detects Leaks in Water Pipes

A Canadian company has developed a leak-detection and water pipe-condition assessment technology that’s making its mark across North America.

Marc Bracken with Echologics interviewed at the 2011 No-Dig show

View Marc Bracken, founder and vice president of Echologics, as he discusses Echologics’ pipe condition assessment and leak detection services with Trenchless Technology at the 2011 No Dig Show.

Mueller Water Products’ Echologics Unit Detects Leaks in Water Pipes

Toronto-based Echologics Engineering Inc., a division of Mueller Water Products Inc., is currently assisting cities in Canada and the U.S. using its proprietary acoustic technology.

Winning Big in Las Vegas with Acoustic Condition Assessment

To prioritize sections of pipe that were in most need of repair, Las Vegas Valley Water District turned to toronto-based Echologics Engineering.

Renewable Energy: New Forum Promotes Smarter Solutions for Water Networks

To improve the efficiency of water use and reuse, water industry leaders have formed a Smart Water Networks Forum.

Water Industry Leaders Join Forces to Promote Smarter Solutions for Water Networks

SWAN, the Smart Water Networks Forum, will lead the revolution of data and information technology for water networks, yielding a more efficient and more sustainable water industry.

Mueller Water Looks to Plug 2010 Revenue Hole

Company hopes a leak detection acquisition may bring needed turnaround.

Government of Canada Invests in Canada’s Green Future

Canada took another major step towards greening its economy today with an investment of $52 million to support the commercialization of clean technologies.

Mueller Water Products Acquires Echologics Engineering Inc., Expands Leak Detection and Pipe Condition Diagnostic Capabilities

Echologics is pleased to announce that it has been acquired by Mueller Water Products.

New Orleans Selects Echologics Engineering Inc. For Pipe Assessment Project

The City of New Orleans has selected Echologics Engineering Inc., a leader in

water infrastructure diagnostic technologies, to oversee its water loss management and water pipe integrity

assessment initiative.

• 2010

  October 2010

  Las Vegas has a very pro-active asset management program. They use the LeakFinderRT for locating leaks and determining the condition of the pipe. Echologics was recently featured in the news in Las Vegas when a sinkhole was formed. Check out the video on YouTube http://www.youtube.com

  Echologics to Provide Trunk Main Leak Detection Services for Portland Water Bureau .

  Echologics Engineering is pleased to announce that it has been chosen by Portland Water to provide leak detection services for 20 miles of the utilities’ trunk mains. Trunk main leaks can become problematic if not detected at an early stage. Echologics will survey selected trunk mains in order to proactively identify and locate leaks in Portland’s trunk main system. The contract was awarded following a successful pilot project conducted on about 5 miles of trunk mains.

  September 2010

  Echologics to Provide Trunk Main Leak Detection Services for East Bay Municipal Utility District

  Echologics Engineering is pleased to announce that it has been chosen by EBMUD to provide leak detection services for approximately 60 miles of the utilities’ trunk mains. The contract was awarded following a pilot study that compared Echologics correlation based technology with technologies that insert a microphone into the pipe. Although all technologies performed well, the Echologics system was found to best meet the requirements of EBMUD for their proactive leak detection platform on their trunk mains.

  August 2010

  Echologics has kicked off a leak detection project in Resolute, Nunavut. Chris Oates, our Senior Field Specialist will be leading this project. Resolute is the second northernmost community in Canada.

  May 2010

  Echologics Engineering and the City of Cambridge are profiled in a Ministry of the Environment video highlighting the Ontario Water Opportunity Act. Link to the entire MOE article: http://www.ene.gov.on.ca/en/water/opportunities/

  January 2010

  Echologics Awarded 5-year Contract for Las Vegas Valley Water District

  Echologics has been awarded a 5-year contract to provide pipe wall condition assessment and leak detection services for the Las Vegas Valley Water District. This contract follows a successful trial of Echologics technology on asbestos cement (AC) pipes, and contracts to assess AC pipe well as the SCC Pipe that serves The Strip in Las Vegas.

• 2009

  December 2009

  Echologics and Fisher Labs Agree to Cooperate on Marketing and Product Development

  Echologics Engineering is pleased to announce that an agreement has been reached with Fisher Labs to co-market Echologics existing leak detection product line, and co-develop new products. The Fisher network will provide our clients with an extensive network of distributors throughout the United States, and in many countries around the world. Effective immediately, Echologics products may be acquired through the Fisher Labs distribution network.

  MTS Allstream and MaRS partner to showcase innovative green technologies

  MTS Allstream and MaRS partner to showcase innovative green technologies at the 2009 Allstream Global Forum: An Evening with Vice President Al Gore. Echologics was one of 3 companies featured and we would like to thank MaRS and MTS Allstream for including us in this important event.

  October 2009

  Echologics is please to announce France Détection Services (FDS) as the official distributor for the French market

  FDS is a leader in the supply of technical equipment for the water industry and in France, and we are pleased that they have chosen to represent Echologics products in this market.

  March 31, 2009

  Echologics Announces Water Pipe Assessment Services- Large Diameter Pipe Leak Detection and Condition Assessment to help Municipal Water Utilities with Infrastructure Management

  Water utilities are facing major costs in maintaining and replacing their transmission and distribution pipe networks. As more and more networks decline each year, these costs are increasing and are expected to peak over the next few years when water pipes installed during the post-war boom begin to reach the end of their service lives.

  “We knew we had issues with some of our AC and CI pipes and we wanted a method to help us determine which pipes to prioritize for replacement,” stated Ed Mitchell, Waterworks Superintendent at Maple Ridge, British Columbia. “We already knew where some pipes were degraded, and wanted to see if we could accurately identify them. With Echologics we were able to determine the extent of the wall thickness deterioration and use that as one of our criteria for replacement. The Echologics approach is a good non-intrusive condition assessment tool.”

  Successful pilot projects have been conducted with leading Municipal Water networks such as Chicago (IL), Las Vegas (NV), City of London (UK) and many others resulting in significant savings to infrastructure management.

• 2008

  August 2008

  Echologics UK provides trunk main leak detection service

  Echologics UK has equipped a service truck to do trunk main leak detection in the United Kingdom. Recently a major leak was found for Thames Water, right in front of the Parliament buildings on a 30-inch cast main. The leak had been running for approximately 8 years.

• 2007

  May 2007

  Echologics Obtains LeakFinderRT Order from China

  LeakFinderRT is now the predominant leak noise correlator in China due to our superior performance on plastic pipe and the efforts of Bill Zhang of Beijing New Wealth.

  A partial client list now includes:

  Handan Water Works

  Chongzhou Water Works

  Nanjing Water Works

  Jiangyou Water Works

  Pengzhou Water Works

  Deyang Water Works

  Duyun Water Works

  Xingyi Water Works

  Neijiang Water Works

  Tianjin Railway and XiangTang Railway Power Supply Sections of the Beijing Railway Bureau

  Shenyang Heating and Power Supply Ltd. Co.

  March 2007

  Echologics is pleased to announce that the Township of Lesotho, Africa has purchased 20 LeakListeners

  As part of this contract, our South African distributor WRP, provided an extensive leak detection training course.

  According to Ronnie Mckenzie of WRP, they like the Leaklistener because it is rugged, simple to use, and finds most of their leaks.

• 2006

  December 2006

  Quebec City Acquires 5th LeakFinderRT System

  Echologics is pleased to announce that Quebec City has acquired their fifth LeakfinderRT system. By standardizing their leak detection equipment, Quebec City becomes the largest single user of the LeakFinderRT system in North America.

  April 2006

  Echologics Wins Construction Innovation Forum Nova Award

  Echologics is pleased to announce that it has been awarded the 2005 Nova Award for the LeakFinderRT Leak Noise Correlator. The NOVA Award was instituted by the Construction Innovation Forum in 1989 to recognize innovations that have proven to be significant advances that have had positive, important effects on construction to improve quality and reduce cost.

  The review process for the Nova Award is extensive, and involves contacting users familiar with the technology to verify it’s impact and validity, and to ensure that it is truly a leap forward on the current state of the art. LeakFinderRT was chosen primarily for it’s performance in finding leaks in plastic water distribution pipes. In the process of their review, the committee found that water utilities had no way to locate leaks on PVC water distribution pipes, unless the leak was surfacing. LeakFinderRT has proved to be exceptionally effective on PVC, allowing water utilities to find and look for leaks on plastic pipes effectively.

• 2005

  July 2005

  Echologics in China

  Echologics’s Chief Operating Officer, Shabbir Yusuf recently gave a seminar on leak noise correlation in Beijing. The seminar was
 extremely well received with over 40 attendees representing managers and operators of
municipal and industrial water services. China is one of the largest water infrastructures in the world on account of its size and population. The operators are well versed in available technologies for leak detection. LeakFinderRT has proved to be very successful in China due to its capabilities to locate leaks on all pipe types, including plastics.

  May 2005

  Echologics Introduces LeakListener

  Echologics Engineering is pleased to introduce the LeakListener. If you think that all listening devices are created equal, you need to compare the performance of this device to your existing unit. The LeakListener is the product of several decades of experience in acoustics and audio electronics design.

  Our engineers took a fresh look at an old technology. Testing showed most existing listeners had poor audio quality, a high noise floor, and were expensive for the given performance. We have incorporated high sensitivity and low noise audio components with an in depth knowledge of the frequency spectra of leak sounds. The resulting design is in keeping with our philosophy of simple yet sophisticated. We have produced a durable, high quality design that has been value engineered for low cost and high performance.

• 2004

  September 2004

  Echologics and City of Hamilton Collaborate on Pipe Wall Thickness Research Project

  Echologics and the City of Hamilton Ontario have entered into a Letter of Intent to conduct a study to evaluate and further develop the National Research Council of Canada’s pipe wall thickness technology. The study commenced in September of 2004, and the first results are just being analyzed. The intent of the study was to measure 11 sites with cast iron and ductile pipes, and then extract sections of pipe at 8 locations to do detailed analysis of pipe condition and geometry including wall thickness, percent pitted area, and statistical information on the depth of pits on both the interior and exterior of the pipes. Although the technology was not tested on concrete pipe as part this study, the technology will work on concrete, and Echologics will be conducting additional studies to test the technology on concrete pipes. Initial results of the study are very positive, and Echologics and NRC are currently reviewing the results and updating our analysis model. Echologics expects to start offering an asset management service to utilities using the wall thickness technology to provide a condition assessment of buried cast and ductile iron pipes of any size.

  June 2004

  Echologics receives 2004 FPTT Award

  Echologics Engineering is pleased to announce that we have been selected as one of the recipients of the Canadian Government’s Federal Partners in Technology Transfer (FPTT) 2004 awards.

  From the FPTT web site:

  The Federal Partners in Technology Transfer (FPTT) initiative is a unique example of people in Canada’s federal science-based departments and agencies (SBDAs) working together to establish common approaches, practices and policies to effectively transfer research and technologies from government laboratories to the private sector.

  April 15, 2004

  Echologics and National Research Council of Canada move ahead on Pipe Wall Thickness Research Project

  Echologics Engineering Inc. has moved ahead with a collaborative research program with the National Research Council of Canada to develop and commercialize the NRC’s patented wall thickness assessment technique. In order to do this, Echologics signed a research agreement with the City of Hamilton, Ontario, to assess the new technology for evaluating pipe condition by measuring wall thickness using acoustic methods.