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SERVICES
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and nothing's broken yet

Sewer System Evaluation Survey (SSES)

Evaluation services most often employ a variety of services beginning with line cleaning, CCTV inspection, manhole inspection, flow monitoring, and smoke testing. Prior to CCTV, cleaning is provided for optimal images of line conditions, including images of observed service connections, root intrusions, exfiltration, infiltration, and inflow. The data acquisition system is capable of generating plan and section views of existing conditions allowing for the development of maintenance and/or rehabilitation strategies.

Closed-Circuit TV (CCTV)

  • enable sewer line inspection and rehabilitation activities
  • diagnostic tool for wastewater and storm water collection systems.
  • support the acceptance of new sewer lines
  • internal evaluation and trenchless rehabilitation of existing lines.
Cleaning is provided prior to CCTV for optimal images of line conditions, including images of all observed service connections, root intrusions, exfiltration, infiltration, and inflow.

Each line is documented in a computerized data acquisition system capable of generating concise data summaries including plan and section views of existing conditions allowing for the development of maintenance and/or rehabilitation strategies.

Sewer Line Cleaning

Cleaning sewer lines

  • dislodges and removes accumulated debris
  • restores optimal system hydraulic conditions
  • minimizes line blockages, including grease and roots
  • assists in odor control
  • extends the life and function of a collection system

Hydraulic jetting

  • light to medium cleaning
  • combine cleaning and flushing into a single task
  • facilitates inspection
  • assists preventive maintenance efforts
  • provides for emergency response needs

Manhole Inspection

Our manhole inspections evaluate the structural integrity, infiltration, inflow, and cleaning requirements of each manhole.

Inspection Procedure

  • measure component parts
  • examine line for roots, structural defects, and debris
  • identify infiltration and inflow

Inspection Benefits

  • manholes are videotaped and/or photographed
  • information may be catalogued and analyzed for future rehabilitation needs

Rehabilitation Management

Inspection Procedure

System rehabilitation can be a daunting task for utility agencies. Even after the completion of SSES activities, rehabilitation contracts and specifications must be prepared, bid, awarded, completed, and work accepted.

This process often involves multiple contractors utilizing numerous available technologies. Such contracts demand active oversight to ensure service reliability.

The result is quality, cost-effective rehabilitation to the ultimate benefit of the receiving agency and its customers.

Inspection Benefits

  • effective project management
  • agency personnel focus on day-to-day operational issues
  • oversight of project scheduling
  • development and management of contract documents
  • facilitation of project accounting
  • inspection of field services ensuring that contract specifications are fully completed.

Smoke Testing

Smoke Test
Smoke testing aids in the location and documentation of potential inflow and infiltration sources. A non-toxic, non-staining smoke is forced into the collection system providing visible evidence of potential inflow.
Because of the nature of smoke testing, AUI takes special care to assist in the facilitation of notification of the public, the ability to handle concerns as they arise on location, and the safety training of personnel on site.

GIS Mapping & Inventory Management

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and AUI's surveying division provide accurate spatial measurements to improve the management of data and assets, updated attributes of each structure, and include GPS and laser measurements to ensure no structure is overlooked. The use of GIS also allows us to access data records instantly, allowing us to make decisions based upon the most recent information.

Data Storage & Management

MPEG-1 and MPEG-2

  • ability to link to inventory records
  • individual video frames can be catalogued, saved, located, and printed by observation
  • used with non-linear storage to break away from the advancing and rewinding associated with VHS

Data Storage

  • AUI maintains all data collected from manhole inspections, GPS mapping and CCTV inspection.
  • Rating numbers are calculated for each component of a structure or segment
  • Ratings based upon observations and defects encountered during field inspections
  • WRc, PACP or customer specified severity ratings are used
  • Resulting information allows for the prioritization of rehabilitation needs

Asset Maintenance Management Systems

What this means for you

  • Combined GIS and inspection data
  • Work order tracking
  • Maintenance management
  • Rehabilitation tracking
  • Flexibility in the retrieval, sorting, querying, and reporting of stored records.

Results

  • Data delivered per client request onto platforms such as CIMS, WinCan, GBA, or Hansen
  • Provide data migration services
  • Customized database solutions Integration with existing GIS data and maps
  • Resulting information allows for the prioritization of rehabilitation needs

Contract Management

    Contract maintenance services for collection systems promote a partnership with agencies to maximize limited resources to effectively augment available resources in a synergistic relationship. Services are effective for small and large collection systems, where a multi-functional crew can service numerous communities on a revolving basis. Skilled personnel is used to perform routine preventive maintenance tasks. The result is a more efficient collection system optimizing the use of existing personnel and budget.

Contract services include, but are not limited to:

  • routine sewer line cleaning
  • root removal
  • trenchless point repair
  • service line connections

Deflection & Air Testing

    DEFLECTION TESTING is conducted for the acceptance of new sewer lines. Pulling the mandrel, equal to 95 or 97 percent of the average diameter of the line, from manhole to manhole can determine whether excessive deflection, offset joints, protruding service connections, or other obstructions occur. Our innovative approach uses a CCTV camera behind the mandrel to determine location and type of defect encountered. This provides efficient and cost-effective correction of identified defects and video documentation of each line tested.

    AIR TESTING services are used for the acceptance of new sewer lines by receiving agencies. Air testing services are conducted in accordance with applicable standards established by the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM). Air testing verifies joint integrity, detects small vapor leaks which may attract roots, and has replaced water pressure testing as the preferred alternative for sewer line tightness testing. In response to inherent safety concerns, a rigorous standard operating procedure ensures effective air testing that is safe for testing personnel and newly installed sewer lines.

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Cookeville, TN 38501
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ABOUT US
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AUI, LLC has served the southeast for more than 18 years and is comprised of individuals with over 20 years of wastewater collection, storm sewer evaluation, and contract services experience for local, state and federal agencies.

This combined experience in the wastewater collection industry has given us vast knowledge of the problems encountered in an aging system, regulatory requirements, and an understanding of reactive and proactive rehabilitation needs, and budgetary concerns including presentations, bids, negotiated work, piggy-backing of existing contracts (where applicable) encountered by systems large and small.

Our commitment is to partner with you to find the best solutions for your system.

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