🚰 Many drinking water utilities are conducting lead service line (LSL) replacements to safeguard public health, but they can't be replaced until their locations are identified. 🔍 Project 5152 addressed the need for commercially available rapid, user-friendly, and cost-effective technologies to accurately identify LSLs without excavation. JUST PUBLISHED ➡️ https://waterrf.org/research/projects/identifying-service-line-materials-without-excavation-distinguishing-lsls-non This project tested three innovative and non-invasive detection platforms (acoustic monitoring, x-ray diffraction/fluorescence, and stress wave propagation/attenuation) to perform buried service line characterization in blind trials using a pipe farm testing facility, followed by field testing in collaboration with six water utilities 🤝 🧑‍🔬 Principal Investigators: Richard Brown, Cornwell Engineering Group, Inc. Maureen Schmelling, DC Water Zia Bukhari, American Water Suzanne Chiavari, American Water David Cornwell, Cornwell Engineering Group, Inc. 🧑‍🔬Project Team: Sarah DeMezzo, Dan Lawrence, jeff swertfeger, Daniel Duffy, Shannon Connell, Ann Dreyer, Deb Watkins, Shaoqing Ge, Ph.D., P.E., Kai Loon Chen, Ebie Holst, Emily Hamilton, Everett Skipper, Erika G., Sarah Caldwell 🧑‍🔬Research Principal: Jian Zhang (fb)

📝 The Water Research Foundation (WRF) just updated its 2023 research report for project 5095! The original project developed guidance and communication tools for water resource recovery facilities to help implement a promising biological nutrient removal technology. 2025 updates includes data analysis on carbon footprint and process-specific carbon emissions.💧 Download the updated report and dig into the research at waterrf.org 👉 https://www.waterrf.org/research/projects/mainstream-deammonification-biological-phosphorus-removal-0 📝 #water #science #research (fb)