System Upgrades Drastically Reduce Flow

A small utility takes on inflow and infiltration with capital improvements and data collection.

System Upgrades Drastically Reduce Flow

Todd Gianotti (left) and Joel Drelick review sewer line records in the field using a field tablet computer (Trimble Yuma).

Like many operators of older sewer collection systems, Newmarket, New Hampshire, has had to combat major problems with inflow and infiltration in its wastewater collections system.

Nestled some 60 miles north of Boston, Newmarket is a one-time mill town that has evolved into a bedroom community with old factories now made over into residential lofts and a variety of small businesses. The older portions of the town’s 22 miles of sewer mains date back to the early 1900s. The...

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