Comprehensive Leakage Control
This course is designed to provide the Learners with the skills and knowledge to locate and control leakage on water distributions systems.
Objectives
By the end of this course the participants will be able to:
- Design a District Metered Area (DMA)
- Explain the different causes of leakage on networks
- Identify and designate sluice valves as boundary valves
- Interpret measured night flows
- Select meters suitable for district metering
- Prove soundness of a DMA
- Design a step test
- Carry out a step test
- Recognise and control operational risks associated with leakage control activities
- Use a leak noise correlator to pinpoint leakage
- Explain the legal and company position with regard to supply pipe ownership and responsibility for leakage
- Use sounding devices to pinpoint leakage
Method
The course will consist of a mixture of classroom based tuition and practical exercises.
Who Should Attend?
Anyone needing to carryout leakage control activities in water distribution networks.