When trying to determine if sewer lines need cleaning, municipalities face a Catch-22. On one hand, it doesn’t make sense financially to hire a contractor to inspect a line if it’s not actually blocked. On the other hand, it’s hard to assess how badly a line is blocked without a camera inspection.But there’s a solution to this conundrum: the SL-RAT, an acoustic pipeline assessment tool developed by InfoSense. SL-RAT stands for Sewer Line-Rapid Assessment Tool — an apt name for a device that can assess sewer line blockages (or lack thereof) in as little as three to five minutes, or
