Million Dollar Leak
Million Dollar Leak
$100,000 per Year!
We know that the cost of this leak for the commercial customer was $100,000 per year, but the question is: “How many years has this leak existed?”
This problem leakage was not noticed in years past when this large manufacturing plant was operating at full capacity. As operations have slowed in recent years it seemed that the water bill did not decrease proportionately.
A check of the meter on New Year’s Eve when everything was shut down revealed that a 50 gallon per minute loss was occurring.
The leak was on a 8” main and as you can see it was a shear break. The main was bedded in 1” rock and the water was apparently escaping into a nearby storm sewer.
The cost of the leak at $4.30 per thousand gallons was $113,000 per year. Ten years of this leakage would cost more than one million dollars.
Wednesday, February 8, 2006