WATER LINE LOCATE SOFTWARE
Water is one of the hardest utilities to locate, and often the worst documented. Old mains, missing as-builts, and plastic or concrete pipe that won't carry a signal the way a metal line does.
TerraFlow doesn't make the locate easier. That's still your crew's skill. What it does is make sure that whatever your crew found gets recorded properly, where it was found, so the next crew doesn't start from scratch.
The method goes on the record
On a water locate, how the line was found matters as much as where. So every point records the method: direct connect, induction, passive, or found by potholing or a visual. With depth, the GPS position and the accuracy of that position.
Someone reading the record later can tell a traced line from a guessed one.
For municipal utilities
Your as-built drawings may be decades old. Some of them never matched what went in the ground.
Every locate your crews do is a chance to check them. On paper, that information ends up in a filing cabinet. In TerraFlow, every locate adds a positioned, depth-checked point to your GIS.
After a year, you know where the field and the map disagree. After a few, the next crew on that block starts with the positions and depths from every locate before them. It's built from work you were already paying for.
PUC Services in Sault Ste. Marie works this way now, with RTK receivers and TerraFlow connected to ArcGIS Online (Esri Canada).
For contractors doing water tickets
The record builds while the locator works. The sketch is drawn to scale from the captured points and is mostly done before the truck leaves. No wheel, no tape, no end-of-day write-up.
And when the municipality compares your records with a hand sketch from another contractor, it doesn't need a feature list.
Works with your kit
Radiodetection, Vivax-Metrotech and Rycom locators. Trimble, Eos, Emlid, Juniper and Bad Elf receivers. Nothing to buy.