3D Models and Digital Twins
Transform complex utility and infrastructure data into accurate, defensible 3D models that support better planning, design coordination, risk management, and decision-making.
Water and Wastewater Utilities
Municipalities and water districts rely on reliable, compliant water and wastewater systems to protect public health, environmental quality, and economic stability. Aging assets, evolving regulations, and increasing demand require accurate subsurface data, dependable condition assessments, and robust quality assurance.
What We Do
Kiwa has supported municipalities and water districts across the US with water infrastructure, facility improvements for water treatment, distribution, and wastewater systems. Kiwa’s independent expertise provides utility risk understanding, supports asset integrity, and enhances operational resilience.
For example, technologies such as high-resolution aerial imagery LiDAR and photogrammetry, are combined with traditional spatial investigation data to provide structure details and quality assurance checks with improved safety. Services include:
- Geospatial and geophysical mapping
- CCTV pipeline assessments
- No entry confined space scanning investigations
- Large diameter pipe studies
- Pump station assessment
- Aerial asset management
Why This Matters
System failures can have serious health, environmental, and regulatory consequences. Properly identifying all subsurface infrastructure can be challenging as systems have grown and changed over decades, with record-keeping and maintenance often not keeping pace.
How Kiwa Delivers Value
Kiwa provides objective, precise utility evaluations—reducing uncertainty and improving capital planning, maintenance scheduling, and construction outcomes.
Who We Serve
Clients we serve include:
Public and private water utilities
Municipal authorities
Infrastructure operators
Our services include
As Built Documentation (ASCE 75/CSA S250)
Professional support for accurate as-built documentation, ensuring compliance with ASCE 75 or CSA S250 standards for engineering and construction projects.
Chamber and Maintenance Hole Modelling
Accurate 3D chamber and maintenance hole modelling that provides detailed, survey-grade information for design, planning, asset management, and utility coordination projects.
Cross-bore Prevention and Verification
Protect critical underground infrastructure and reduce HDD-related risk with CCTV-based cross-bore prevention and verification services from Kiwa T2.
Dye Testing
Kiwa T2 provides Dye Testing services to verify sewer connectivity, helping property owners, developers, and engineers identify where private sewer connections discharge into municipal infrastructure.
Geographic Information System (GIS)
Accurate GIS mapping and asset data management solutions that help municipalities, campuses, and industrial organizations better understand, manage, and plan underground infrastructure.
Inflow and Infiltration Investigations
Identify and confirm the location of groundwater entering sewer systems with inflow and infiltration investigations that support data-driven rehabilitation and asset management decisions.
LiDAR and Mobile Mapping
Capture accurate, detailed, and comprehensive spatial data with LiDAR and mobile mapping solutions that support planning, design, construction, asset management, and infrastructure decision-making.
Maintenance Hole Condition Assessment (MACP)
Gain a clear understanding of the condition of your maintenance holes and chambers with standardized MACP inspections that support asset management, rehabilitation planning, and regulatory compliance.
Marker Ball Installations
Simplify future utility locating and verification by installing marker balls on difficult-to-detect underground infrastructure.
Overhead/ Aerial Asset Inventories
Accurate mapping and documentation of overhead utility infrastructure to support planning, design, utility coordination, and long-term asset management.
Private Locates
Identify and mark privately owned underground utilities before excavation, construction, or site development activities begin.
Public Locate Project Management
Comprehensive management of public utility locate projects, ensuring safe excavation, regulatory compliance, and efficient project delivery.
Sewer Lateral Condition Assessment (LACP)
NASSCO-compliant sewer lateral condition assessments to help asset owners understand the condition, performance, and rehabilitation needs of service lateral infrastructure.
Sewer Mapping
Accurate sewer mapping that helps owners, engineers, and project teams understand the location and orientation of non-linear sewer infrastructure.
Site Characterization Support
Kiwa T2 provides advanced geophysical investigations that help clients understand subsurface conditions, identify anomalies, and make informed environmental, remediation, and engineering decisions.
Subsurface Utility Engineering (SUE) Investigations (ASCE 38)
Professional investigation and analysis of above-ground and underground utilities to provide reliable utility information following the ASCE 38 that supports safer, more informed project planning and design.
Tracer Wire Verification
Verify tracer wire continuity and connectivity to help support accurate future locating of non-conductive underground utilities.
Tree Root Mapping
Advanced geophysics helps identify and map shallow tree root systems, supporting informed tree management decisions and reducing conflicts with planned construction or existing infrastructure.
Underground Storage Tank Investigations
Identify potential underground storage tanks with confidence using non-invasive Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) investigations that help reduce uncertainty and support informed property decisions.
FAQs about Water and Wastewater Utilities
Can Kiwa support aging water infrastructure?
Kiwa companies provide a range of utility investigation and asset management services to support the operation and maintenance of water and wastewater plants and facilities as well as expansion and retrofit projects. Facilities have extensive and complex underground infrastructure that is often not well documented. T2 Utility Engineers above and below-ground investigations provide reliable information to make informed decisions and reduce risk.
