Angus Jackson
Edward O'Brien
1st October 1995 - 1st October 2002
Yorkshire water
NERC/CASE studentship
Many of the most important assets of water companies are underground. The position and certainly the condition of these assets is not precisely known.
This project uses ground penetrating radar to locate and characterize leakages of raw water from the water distribution network.
The first phase in this work examined the general application of GPR to a variety of water related problems such as badger tunneling of earth dams, leakage of raw water, and flood plain structures. The second phase (a NERC/CASE studentship) is focusing exclusively on leakage and is using a leak field artificial network owned by Yorkshire Water to calibrate the GPR readings with known subsurface leakage conditions.