American Leak Detection - American Waterworks Association

ALD Profile● Established 1974● 120 franchisees (41 states, 6 countries)● 5 ALD corporate-owned operations● Approx $50m system revenue (ALD corporate + franchisees)● Consistent/steady/positive growth ● ALD owned 92% by Plain Sight Systems, technology parent which purchased ALD in Feb 2006

Our Addressable Market● ALD finds/fixes water, sewer, gas leaks “non-invasively”● Branded vehicles service assigned “territories”● Specialized equipment/training and non-invasive manner of leak location results in higher margin offering and returns ● Everyone is a customer (homeowners, pool owners commercial property owners, municipalities)● Large addressable market (crumbling infrastructure)

About Us

Distribution & Brand Awareness in Our Category

#1 in category for 8 straight years

Service OfferingsBoth Sides of the Meter | Residential Commercial Municipal

• Drain and sewer

• Insurance audits and claims

• Pool and spa

• Hydrostatic testing

• Fire suppression systems

• Camera and video inspections

• Underground utility location

• Natural Gas lines and well lines

• Sewer and septic radiant heat systems

• Water and mold damage

• Potable water line inspection

• Clients:

– Homeowners

– Builders

– Professional referrals

– Insurance companies

– Property managers

– Facilities engineers

– Municipalities and water distribution systems

Municipal Work

• System members currently perform municipal work • ALD working with various correlation manufacture

companies ALD Case Studies

● Idyllwild, CA-Water district notifies ALD that location is losing 30 days worth of water every 2 days-ALD performs survey and identifies leaks

● Phoenix, AZ-Over 3 week period, ALD finds 3 leaks on 12” ductile iron pipe

● San Bernardino, CA-Metropolitan Water District notifies ALD that there is a pressure test failure in new construction-ALD locates leaks in pipe that is 5 miles long and 7ft in diameter

City of Coeur d’ Alene, Idaho1st Place @ Truck Rodeo, Inland Empire Sub Section 2008

City of Moscow, Idaho3rd Place @ Truck Rodeo, Inland Empire Sub Section 2008

Sunnyside Water Department

Sunnyside Water Department1st Place Evergreen Rural Water 2008

On February 1, 2008 a citizen reported water coming up from the asphalt. We investigated where the water was coming from. We first thought we had a 2” service in that area and figured that one of the 90 elbow joints of the corp stop had failed.

As we were hydro-excavating found that it was much worse than we had thought. The 2” service was installed using a 8’ x 2’ tee. The bolts in the tee had rotted out completely and were more or less mush.

This then allowed the gasket to get pushed out and start leaking, we had originally planned on just putting new bolts in it, but the problem then proceeded to get worse



We also found out that the tee itself was rotting away. We then proceeded to remove the whole tee, and replaced it with a straight piece of C900, installed a new saddle, tapped it and reconnected the service. The whole repair took roughly 13 hours, the pipe was 5’ down and the water table is that area at this time of year is about 3 feet.

Submitted by Steve Schut

Badger Mountain Irrigation Dist, Kennewick, WA

Badger Mountain Irrigation Dist, Kennewick, WA2nd Place Evergreen Rural Water 2008

A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT!

On a warm, summer day… Somewhere in Eastern Washington, an on-call Water Operator from the Badger Mountain Irrigation District responds to a call from a concerned customer about some water running down the street near his home. Upon arriving at the scene and seeing the massive amount of water running down the street. The BMID employee knows that this is a main line issue and not just a service line leaking. While assessing the situation, the pager goes off yet again.

This time the customer explains that there is a river flowing through his yard, down the hill and into his neighbor’s house!!! The water that had been running like a river through one customer’s yard had encountered an obstacle in its path. A keystone bulkhead that separated two of the affected lots was acting as a dam. Unfortunately, keystone bulkheads don’t make very good dams. Within seconds a large section of the bulkhead simply disappeared into the earth.

A leak was detected!


The leak was repaired, the water was extracted from the basements of both homes and there was no structural damage. The bulkhead was rebuilt and landscapers were able to clean and save the buried sod. The insurance company covered the repair costs and the homeowners were happy with the District’s response time and the repairs to their personal property.


The following is a list of repair costs:

The total cost of the water extraction $5200.00

The cost to rebuild the bulkhead $4500.00

Landscaping $3200.00An experienced Water Operator PRICELESS!!!

Submitted by Richard Lee


Model Irrigation

Model Irrigation3rd Place – Evergreen Rural Water 2008

Submitted by Jim Ladhe

It was a hot humid Friday in August 2007. I was putting up hay at home… Just went to check pumps, phones and emails… Phone call from answering service 11:30 AM: Water running across the new construction into our garage. We diverted the water but need to stop the water now! Wonderful! The surfacing stream was diverted to the neighbor’s backyard. An Emergency Locate and mini backhoe ordered – only 6 ft of clearance to get into backyard!


A phone call to Rick just hooking up his boat: “I need help!”

This old line had unknown origins of supply. Had to shut off water to a 6-block area. Started digging through the pine roots where the water was surfacing. No leak on pipe which was a 6” OD steel. We made the hole longer searching for the leak, we dug along the wall with the excavator up to the foundation of the new house.


We found it! But needed to backfill and to support the retaining wall. Pull out 6” diameter pine roots. For access to place a repair bank on the main. The two of us drank one gallon of water and spent 4 hours making repairs and backfilling this repair and returning service to the neighborhood. No damage to neighbors’ property and minor tracks left in an unfinished backyard after the repair.

Old photo of frozen fountain, City of Sumpter, OR –

8” wooden pipe on transmission line.

Submitted by City of Central Point:

A bird landed on power line and shorted out the lines. The line dropped on a mail box.

Electricity went thru box to transite line underneath and blew a hole in the pipe.

Picture of frozen tower: Sensor for the tower water level froze and the pumps did not shut-off. The entire area below the tower including the fence, bushes and the nearby railroad tracks were all frozen from the water overflowing from the tank.Submitted by City of Lebanon, OR

American Leak Detection - Oregon

Picture of frozen tower: Sensor for the tower water level froze and the pumps did not shut-off. The entire area below the tower including the fence, bushes and the nearby railroad tracks were all frozen from the water overflowing from the tank.Submitted by City of Lebanon, OR

American Leak Detection - Oregon

Cable contractor drill a hole in the pipe.

Submitted by City of Redmond

Brooklyn, N.Y. - March 27, 2006

Sources: New York Times, Newsday, WNBC

• A SUV driver plunged into a cavernous sinkhole caused by water leaking from an underground main.

• 3:36 a.m. street collapse was stopped thanks to an 18-inch gas pipe that prevented the 1993 Ford Explorer from toppling farther into the 20-foot-deep hole at 73rd Street and Fourth Avenue in Bay Ridge.

• Water from the main break rushed into the subway system beneath the road collapse, suspending service on the R subway line.

• "It's unlikely that the only part of the roadway that was damaged was that car-shaped hole," he said, adding that water seeping from the 8-inch pipe could have been washing away dirt beneath the roadway for days.

Brooklyn, N.Y., on March 27, 2006Sources: New York Times, Newsday, WNBC

The line dropped on a mail box. Electricity went thru box to transite line underneath and blew a hole in the pipe. Submitted by City of Central Point –

City worker in hole full of water- contractor was digging near an old galvanized

service line and it broke at the corp stop. Submitted by Scott Wilkerson, City of Lebanon, OR

City worker in hole full of water- contractor was digging near an old galvanized service line and it broke at the corp stop. Submitted by Scott Wilkerson, City of Lebanon, OR

Sinkhole in Seattle, May 2007 Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Broken water main near Seattle caused a massive sinkhole near the University Bridge that swallowed two cars.

A minivan landed on a gas pipeline and both were on top of the broken main. Took 30 hours before the water system was back to normal. The 10-foot-deep sinkhole was about 20 feet wide. 24-inch main had a tension break from a crack 16 feet along the length of the cast iron pipe. Water main installed in 1912.

About 30 customers in Eastlake were without water. Neighbors had low-water pressure and discolored water.

Morning traffic was backed up to downtown and toward Northgate.

Police harbor officers moved boats and redirected marine traffic out of the area. Officers and firefighters also were concerned about possible natural gas leaks because of pipelines in the area.



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