ROBOTIC VIDEO PIPELINE INSPECTION / CCTV
Serving all of New England
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No local company has the experience, equipment, or complete pipeline cleaning/inspection/and rehabilitation options offered by the Ted Berry Company Team. Our (2) CCTV inspection teams operate CCTV inspection equipment daily from our Maine office. No local company can meet our project experience.
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The growth of our society depends on reliable infrastructure systems. This is achieved through the continual inspection, maintenance, and upgrade of the buried utility structures that provide our communities with water, gas, sewage, communications, and storm water removal. Ted Berry Company is supplied with television inspection equipment for internal inspection of sewer collection, Stormwater collection , and water distribution pipelines, buried utility duct systems, and almost any other pipeline you may have above or below ground.
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Once inspections are complete you will receive detailed digital Wincan V8 reports and videos showing all aspects of your pipeline. Inspection media will be available in VHS, DVD, or MPEG. |
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Our Mainline inspection unit is equipped with tracked, wheeled, storm, large line steerable, pipe skid, and boat transporters to properly inspect any type or size pipeline you may have. Our team has inspected pipelines from 2" to 120" in diameter. Our cameras are 360 degree radial pan and tilt with a 40:1 zoom feature and have built in sonde to allow pinpoint location of pipelines underground.
Our Mini-Cameras are capable of inspecting lines as small as 1 1/4" made of various materials. Our crews are often called on for inspections of industrial boiler tubes, turbine inlets, groundwater monitoring wells, ducts, Ect.
Ted Berry Company has PACP & MACP Certified Operators
NASSCO Pipeline/Manhole Assessment Certification Program
PACP Program Download
MLELS Mainline & Lateral Evaluation & Locating System
We can now inspect and provide electronic location (512 HZ) of service laterals from the mainline with the use of our lateral launcher system. A remotely operated mini-camera mounted directly to a mainline televising system can inspect up to 80' into a 4"-12" service lateral. This information has proven very valuable in sanitary sewer system I&I studies throughout the world. Ask about our HDD (horizontal directional drilling) crossbore prevention work.
MLELS System Flyer - Aries LETS
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| Broken VCP 8" | Infiltration AC 8" |
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| Granite Culvert 96" | Storm crawler |
Some of our transporter and camera options are pictured below
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| The Boat | Titan Steerable | Large Line Kit |
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| Mini-Cameras | Enviro-Sight |
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Tunnel Inspection May 2007 A large pulp and paper mill had an important inspection required of a massive 12' brick arch sewer line. In the past the inspection was done with divers which is very dangerous and expensive. The Ted Berry Company Inspection Team utilized our jet propelled boat camera to negotiate the 200' foot long tunnels and perform the inspection. Two tunnels were inspected in approximately 8 hours with the mill sewer system in 100% operation. The boat is fully functional in pipes of all shapes and sizes above 30" and lengths up to 1000'. |
Industrial Compliance Inspections
During an important outage a 36" fiberglass acid line required a compliance inspection. The Ted Berry Company Team provided a diversion and isolation of the 5.5 MGD acid flow at 140+- degrees with a ph of 2-4. During the isolation a robotic camera was inserted and the pipeline inspected. During the diversion, isolation, and inspection the mill process was kept in 100% operation.
Private and Commercial Lateral Sewer Lines
Lateral Line
The sewer lateral line is the pipe that connects your residence to the sanitary sewer main pipeline that runs down the center of your street. Every water drain in your residence empties into the lateral line, including the sink, bathtub, dishwasher and toilet. Each house has one lateral line connection to the sewer main, condominiums and apartments often have several units sharing a single lateral line. The lateral line is usually owned by the property owner, not the city. Consequently, maintenance, repair and replacement of the lateral line is the responsibility of the property owner.
Construction
The lateral line is a pipeline typically 4 to 6 inches wide, with an average length of 75 feet. It exits at the lowest point of the residence, and is usually located 6 to 10 feet underground. The older lateral lines are constructed of several different materials; cast iron, clay, and orangeburg (compressed tarpaper) being among the most common. Today’s lateral lines are generally a plastic pipe, such as PVC.
Deterioration
The lateral line is constructed of pipe sections 3 to 13 feet in length, connected to create a continuous pipeline from the residence to the mainline sewer in the street. It is at these joints where problems commonly appear. Shifting earth, erosion, or deterioration of the joint sealant result in the eventual separation of the joint, allowing wastewater to leak out into the environment. This in turn attracts tree roots, which work their way into the pipes to get at the source of the nutrients upon which it feeds, further destroying the lateral line. Wastewater flowing out of the joint break begins to erode the ground underneath the next section of pipe, causing it to sag, and eventually crack or separate at the next joint downstream. This process will continue until the pipe collapses completely, or is repaired.
How Would I Know If This Is Happening?
If your residence is over 15 years old and you notice your drains “gurgling “ or bubbling as they drain, smell sewage odor or have experienced a sewer backup, your lateral line probably needs repair. Often, a plumber is called and the lines are “snaked”, “jetted”, “rootered” or otherwise cleaned out and pronounced fit for use. Perhaps the tree roots were cut out. What has happened is that the plumber has temporarily removed the matter that had collected at the problem site and was causing a backup. The break is still there, the tree root will grow back, the pipeline will continue to deteriorate, matter will collect at the same site, and you will experience another backup within the year.
The best way to assess the condition of your lateral line is to conduct a Closed Circuit Television Video (CCTV) examination. Ted Berry Co. Inc. will run a camera down the lateral line and examine the entire pipeline, assessing flow rate, pipeline integrity and repair options. A video tape is made available to our clients so that you can see exactly what is happening inside the pipe, and determine a proper course of action.
Serving all of New England and the Islands
