Pipeline Condition Assessment and Cleaning

Keeping your wastewater pipelines reliable starts with knowing their true condition. With SewerBall , our non-intrusive inspection technology, we help you see what is happening inside your pipes without disrupting service. Sewerball travels with the flow, capturing high-resolution video and water quality data to identify structural defects, infiltration points, sediment build-up and polluting discharges. You gain clear, actionable insights into pipe condition, even in hard-to-access sections of your network.

Once problem areas are identified, restoring performance is the next step. That’s where Ice Pigging comes in. This no-dig cleaning technology removes sediment and biofilm from pressurized pipelines, helping you restore pipes to their original hydraulic capacity. Flowing like a liquid but cleaning like a solid, Ice Pigging navigates complex bends and varying diameters, delivering fast, effective cleaning while keeping your assets in service. By reducing blockages, overflows and pumping energy, you improve both operational reliability and environmental protection.

Inspection and cleaning become even more powerful when combined with data-driven planning. Assetadvanced brings together data from SewerBall inspections, Ice Pigging cleaning operations, maintenance records and external data sources to help you decide where to act next. Using predictive models, the software identifies pipes most at risk of becoming blocked or degraded, allowing you to prioritize interventions, avoid unnecessary cleaning and better allocate budgets.

Together, SewerBall, Ice Pigging and Assetadvanced form an integrated approach to pipeline condition assessment and cleaning. SewerBall shows you where issues are forming, Ice Pigging restores capacity and slows deterioration, and Assetadvanced helps you plan future maintenance with confidence. You move from reactive responses to proactive, optimized network management.

As your partner, we help you extend asset life, reduce operational costs and protect water quality. By combining proven technologies with clear, usable insights, we enable you to take the right action at the right time, keeping your wastewater network resilient, efficient, and future-ready.

Wessex Water reached out to us to perform Ice Pigging at three Sewage Pumping Station (SPS) locations. The goal was to address suspected sediment buildup in the rising mains, which had been significantly restricting flow rates. Because these mains were quite narrow—measuring at or below DN50—traditional cleaning options were limited.

While a vacuum tanker had previously been used to flush short sections of the pipe, the results were only temporary. We implemented our Ice Pigging solution across all three sites without the need for permanent infrastructure changes.
We utilized existing Bauer connections or adapted fittings at the SPS for ice insertion. At one site, an air valve served as a convenient midpoint break, though our process is capable of cleaning the entire length in a single pass.