Cross Bore Inspection

  • Prevent Failures
  • Make Confident Decisions
  • Partners in Your Corner

Increasing Your Cross Bore Discovery Rate

Hydromax USA Cross Bore Quality Control processes require verifiable and repeatable data at the highest confidence level because we understand the implications of a single failure. Established rules are used for all aspects of cross bore inspection with methods and equipment being continually refined for safety and efficiency for each specific project or system.

A Hydromax USA worker monitoring video from inside a pipeline and a utility map side-by-side.
Distinguishing capabilities of our advanced cross bore programs:
  • GPS field data collection equipment capable of real-time corrected accuracy down to 3”.
  • Field personnel extensively trained on best practices and thorough troubleshooting to ensure maximum accuracy when recording positions.
  • Higher accuracy equipment for greater confidence in the review of data, lower system risk, and overall results.
  • High-resolution aerial imagery allows data analysts to confirm the clearance of risk areas within a smaller tolerance and higher degree of confidence.
  • Digital Cross Bore reports via MaxLink are searchable and linked to related GIS data for future data and studies, and stored in digital layers available through the utilities’ system. Hydromax USA supports ESRI, GE Smallworld and a variety of other GIS platforms.

The Hydromax USA Cross Bore Program

Hydromax USA’s Cross Bore Inspection program was developed with an emphasis on collecting high-quality data by engineering out the potential for human error during the field collection and validation of data used to identify and mitigate cross bores. Core to our program are five comprehensive methodologies:

Project Ramp-Up

Agreement and permit negotiation management to gain access to municipalities and sewer operators resulting in:

  • Significant savings for utilities
  • Mutually beneficial partnerships with the sewer operators that help them identify problems before they worsen and often help them meet their inspection goals
  • Turnkey services, managing all business licenses, insurance, and bonds required by every municipality and sewer operator
Key Benefit:

Enhanced relationships with municipalities, inspectors, and sewer operators.

Inspection Methodology
  • Inspect all mainlines surrounding the parcel and laterals.
  • Videos and GPS points reviewed by a highly trained Data Analyst.
  • Conflicts? Proximity Technician in the field reviews all measurements to ensure accuracy and confidence in clearing inconclusive inspections.
  • Review of proximity determinations to ensure complete agreement with available data.
Key Benefit:

Thorough process ensures no risk areas are left uninspected.

Scoping Process Development
Develop rules specific to your environment/region to support:
  • Mainline inspections
  • Push camera inspections
  • Proximity review
  • Data analyst review
Identifiable risk area review with existing datasets:
  • Gas service cards
  • As-builts
  • City sewer and right-of-way records
  • GIS
  • Other paper or digital records available to us
Key Benefit:

Ensures inspections are performed only on at-risk facilities.

Mapping & Date Review Precision
  • High-resolution imagery to aid data analysts, beyond the scoped gas risk.
  • Custom workstations for maximum resolution to ensure no cross bores or installation damage is missed.
  • Specially developed software ensures no risk areas are left uninspected.
  • High accuracy GPS data creates a complete system map for both gas and sewer facilities and our data
  • Analysts review 100% of the collected data to ensure that all potential conflict areas are free of risk and that no sewer branches are missed due to roots, water sags, or poor visibility due to dirty camera lenses.
Key Benefit:

No inspections are cleared in the field; Hydromax USA offers the only Cross Bore Inspection program in the industry holding inspections to this rigorous standard.

Accuracy + Precision = Confidence

Hydromax USA utilizes 3” accuracy GPS equipment. The accuracy of Hydromax USA’s equipment allows us to ensure that all scoped risk limits have been reached. This level of precision is impossible with lower quality GPS data or without the rigorous training our field personnel undergo.

Low Accuracy = Low Confidence
High Accuracy = High Confidence

Equipment Capabilities Unique to Your Environment

We continually evaluate every available tool on the market to bring our customers the most value. We select and customize our robotic equipment to meet the unique challenges encountered in your regions’ sewer systems, such as steep sloping pipes or rough concrete sewers. Our adaptable lateral equipment has delivered project cost savings for our customers while increasing completed inspections with limited access options and reducing the requirement for costly follow-up inspections.

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Hydromax USA’s Proximity Team

Our Proximity team is comprised of highly-trained individuals with extensive GIS, construction, and survey backgrounds – allowing us to eliminate risk in the most challenging conditions by confirming the location of sewer and gas facilities when they are otherwise inaccessible.

A Hydromax worker using a specialized computer console to monitor the inside of a pipeline.

The Last Word

Hydromax USA delivers innovative data collection and analytics, specializing in Water, Wastewater, and Gas Infrastructure. We transform data through our GIS-Centric Methodology: Integrating client needs and field services to develop data management platforms that support infrastructure analytics, providing the highest level of actionable business intelligence, ensuring public safety, and improving asset management.

Safety Is at Our Core

At Hydromax USA, we introduce continuous improvements to our systems and processes which prevent the loss of life or damage to property potentially caused by the accidental installation of gas and other utility facilities into the sewer system. To that end:

  • Each manager has a detailed working knowledge of the equipment, processes, and procedures necessary for total program success.
  • Our staff has a dedicated Quality Control Manager to ensure all processes and procedures meet internal quality standards.
  • Hydromax USA’s Safety Council analyzes safety data to ensure we meet internal and utility established safety goals, providing baseline knowledge that drives constant improvement and awareness.

Dedicated to Innovation & Safety

Hydromax’s information technology services focus on ongoing innovation in risk analysis, work prioritization, and optimizing field services for our clients through software development and GIS system development. Our UtilSafe ™ suite of solutions is a result of that dedication.

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Actionable Business Intelligence

Hydromax USA is propelling the industry forward incorporating utility data into a GIS interface resulting in efficient, user-friendly presentations that deliver:

  • Asset details available across multiple departments for project design, project scheduling, and operations control
  • Better budgeting by combining asset characteristics from multiple sources of traditionally siloed data
  • GIS visual interface that allows users to gather assets by selecting them directly on the screen, turning them into BIM, circuit diagram, etc.
  • Integration with SAP and other data structures
  • A structured database to generate meaningful queries and reports with ease.
  • GIS databases: High accuracy asset location and a transition from physical paint marks to a digital response system
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