Element 82 - A Crown Company

10,000 field investigation Milestone ?? Congrats to the entire team involved to #GetTheLeadOut Only ~ 19.99 Million to go!

Are there any challenges with identifying lead in a water service with Swordfish? While flushing after the test is part of our QAQC process, it is possible on less than 1% of water services to not be able to navigate through a fixture. #GetTheLeadOut

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Probe-tastic! The probe that's used to travel through the existing water service to identify the material type has improved numerous times over the past few years. As almost no water service is identical, the probe has needed to traverse through numerous bends, material types, fittings, and an array of other difficulties. Each design change has addressed a need. The current probe utilized by Element 82 crews is not probe-lematic to go from the house to the city water main. #GetTheLeadOut

Accessing the water service from the curb box. The Swordfish technology then travels to the city water main ?? and then all the way to the home. If lead is present anywhere along this path, the Swordfish technology will find it. #GetTheLeadOut

How do you know how far the Swordfish probe has traveled within the water service line?? Distance encoder display precisely measures this metric. #GetTheLeadOut

Can the Swordfish technology navigate this many bends in the water service line ?????? Yes ?? #GetTheLeadOut

After notifying a homeowner that their water service line is lead, galvanized or an unknown material - sometimes the homeowner may disagree with the results. #GetTheLeadOut

Let's do it right the first time . . . #GetTheLeadOut

Did You Know? Aside from just using lead in their plumbing, the ancient Romans used lead acetate as a sweetener in wine and food. They would boil unfiltered grape juice, called must, in lead pots to create a syrup called defrutum. This syrup was then concentrated into sapa, which was used to sweeten wine and preserve fruit. #GetTheLeadOut