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In a typical year, more than 80 percent of the water we deliver to our customers comes from two East Texas Reservoirs – Cedar Creek and Richland-Chambers. The water is pumped through miles of huge underground pipelines on its way to Tarrant County.

Making sure our infrastructure works when it’s needed is a big part of what we do. Since the 1990’s we helped pioneer the use of electro-magnetic inspections to assess the status of those pipelines. The inspections locate wire breaks in pre-stressed concrete pipe. We use a risk-based structural model to help us identify which pipe segments are most distressed. From there we target about 15 segments per year for replacement.

The pipeline integrity program costs about 4-5 percent what it would cost to replace the entire pipeline. And it helps us get ahead of potential failures before they happen.