Cleveland Water Alliance (CWA) held an event at the Lead Service Line Research Facility, owned and operated by public utility, Cleveland Water. Attendees had the opportunity to explore and witness demonstrations of cutting-edge technologies designed to identify lead service lines without the need for excavation. Three innovators showcased their solutions, leveraging acoustic, electromagnetic, and AI technologies.
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PARMA HEIGHTS, Ohio — It looks like a typical lawn behind Cleveland Water's Parma Heights facility, but underneath this manicured lawn sits a model of a water utility's service system consisting of different kinds of pipes. If you wanted to identify whether an underground pipe here was
lead, copper or galvanized steel, your only option has been to start digging. That got the folks at the Cleveland Water Alliance thinking.
"We need a viable solution for identifying lead service lines under the street without having to dig them up, without having to excavate driveways, without having to disrupt service," said Emily Hamilton of the Cleveland Water Alliance. "And there was not a solution in place presently."
