Columbus Water Work Uses Technology and Pedestrian Methods to Manage its Watershed

Utility team members in a Georgia community explore streams to assess water quality and to look for pipe defects that could create problems.

Columbus Water Work Uses Technology and Pedestrian Methods to Manage its Watershed

Columbus Water Works team members regularly wade upstream in creeks looking for problems such as cracked sewer pipes or erosion that has left pipes unsupported.

Columbus Water Works uses electronic monitoring and other technology to manage its watershed and its water and wastewater treatment, but it also uses more pedestrian methods.

“We find it very beneficial to routinely walk the creeks,” says Vic Burchfield, senior vice president...

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