DDA Water Leak Detection
I'm now offering deployment services with two certified water leak detection dogs, Flash and Flare. If you're a municipal water system, rural water district, public works department, or leak detection company, you can put them to work in your service area.
Driven by purpose. Relentless by design.
The Cost of Non-Revenue Water
The U.S. loses roughly 6 billion gallons of treated water every day to leaks — about 2.1 trillion gallons a year.
That's enough water to serve more than 19 million American households for a full year.
Every drop was already pumped, treated, and disinfected before it disappeared underground.
Why Use Dogs?
All sensing methods have restrictions. Acoustical equipment is less than ideal along roadways, struggles with plastic pipe and deeper mains, and depends on quiet that busy service areas rarely have. None of that is a flaw — it's a limit. Working around limits is where dogs come in.
Effective & Efficient
A dog's nose has been finding drugs, explosives, and lost/missing people for decades. Water main leaks are the same job — only a different odor.
Flash and Flare can work places other sensing instruments can't— heavy vegetation, next to roads, wetlands, residential yards — without digging or disturbing landscaping.
Pair them with your acoustic crew and the two together outperform either alone: dogs flag the zones, acoustics confirm them.
Cost Effective
We are highly mobile. We can cover more ground per day. Fewer wasted hours on the wrong lines.
Every leak you confirm is treated water back on the right side of the meter — revenue protected, treatment costs recovered, repair priorities determined.
Narrowing Down the Area
A dog's nose does something equipment can't do as efficiently: confidently rule areas out. Canines can clear a stretch of pipe -- that's ground your acoustic crew doesn't have to walk twice.
Exclusion saves as much time as detection — sometimes more. The work that doesn't need doing is often the work that costs you most.
Proof in the Field
Results from a multi-stakeholder pilot study funded by Cherokee Nation demonstrated that all leaks later confirmed through acoustic investigation had first been flagged by canine teams. During follow-up evaluation, acoustic equipment was able to verify approximately 26% of canine-marked locations; however, 100% of acoustically confirmed leaks originated from canine-detected areas. The remaining canine-flagged locations likely represent leaks too small for acoustic methods to detect at the time of testing — exactly the kind of early-stage loss that's most valuable to catch.
Canines do not replace current sensing methods.
We enable thier more efficient use.
K9 Flare, Certified WLD.
Who we serve
• Municipal Water Utilities
• Rural Water Districts
• Public Works Departments
• Infrastructure Service Providers
We serve the midwest, but will travel throughout the United States.
