72%
Of annual U.S. water and wastewater spending is operations and maintenance.
Capital investment gets 28%. Recurring contracts are simply easier to renew than capital projects are to procure.
A community of communities
No community should run its sewers alone.
Members get the sewer operating system, PinPoint Detection, pooled buying power, and the neighbors next door. Lower bills, fewer overflows, faster fixes.
What membership does for your community
Six things change when you can see your system.
The operating system, the basin detection program, and the neighbors who've already been through it. Here's what that means for your town.
01
Stop treating water that shouldn't be there
Every gallon of inflow and infiltration costs money to pump, treat, and discharge. Communities are quietly billing residents to clean rainwater and groundwater that leaks into pipes that should be sealed.
$2 – $5 per 1,000 gallons treated02
Avoid unnecessary plant expansions
Without visibility, utilities expand treatment plants when the real issue is leaks upstream. Smart Sewers separates true growth from I&I — so capital projects reflect actual need, not bad data.
$50M – $500M+ avoided03
Reduce overflow risk and EPA fines
Every overflow is reportable. Every reportable event compounds penalties. Pinpointing the basins that overflow first means you fix them before the next storm makes the news.
Up to $66K/day per violation04
Spend on what actually matters
Traditional SSES inspects 100% of a system to find 20% of the problem. Smart Sewers flips it — find the 20% first, then send crews where the work matters.
80/20 Pareto05
Protect ratepayers and growth
I&I consumes capacity that could serve new homes, businesses, and economic growth. Reclaim that capacity by fixing leaks instead of building bigger.
Lower rates, faster growth06
Operate proactively, not reactively
Most utilities run a five-year cycle: problem, study, partial fix, problem returns. Continuous visibility breaks the cycle. You see things developing in time to act.
Real-time, not 5-yearThe scoreboard
America grades its own wastewater a D+.
The storms grade harder.
Communities aren't failing to spend — they've been spending on five-, ten-, and twenty-year study-and-rebuild cycles while heavy rain arrives on its own schedule. Too much of the money goes to studying the system. The fix is knowing which parts to fix first.
ASCE Report Card · 2025
D+
The national grade for U.S. wastewater infrastructure — unchanged since 2021.
The investment gap
$69B/yr
What wastewater and stormwater systems need beyond current funding — every year.
Treating clean water
$2–$5
Per 1,000 gallons of rainwater and groundwater pumped and treated like sewage.
Extreme one-day rain
9 of 10
Of the top ten years for extreme single-day precipitation events have occurred since 1990.
Where the money goes instead
The backlog isn't a mystery. It's a habit.
Of the roughly $113 billion America spends on water and wastewater in a year, 72 cents of every dollar goes to operations and maintenance — the recurring contracts for cleaning, televising, smoke testing, and studying that renew year after year without a procurement fight. Capital rehabilitation, actually fixing the pipe, gets the other 28 cents and has to survive design, bids, and approvals first. The studies keep getting bought. The fixes keep waiting.
$630B
In documented clean-water infrastructure needs over 20 years.
Up 73% in a decade — the backlog is growing, not shrinking, while the maintenance treadmill turns.
$151B
Of that is conveyance repair and replacement alone.
The pipes and manholes this platform exists to find, fund, and fix — waiting on evidence strong enough to clear a council vote.
Why this is a financial issue, not an engineering one
The bill always lands somewhere. Usually on a household.
When you can't see where I&I enters your system, three things happen — and ratepayers pay for all three.
A
Higher monthly sewer bills
Treatment plant operations & maintenance pass through to ratepayers. More flow = bigger bills, even when the new flow isn't sewage.
+ $$$PER HOUSEHOLD
B
Bond debt for plant expansions
A capacity expansion gets financed over 20–30 years. The community pays interest on debt that may not have been needed if the system had been understood first.
+ $$$$$$DECADES OF DEBT
C
Stalled growth, blocked development
When a system runs near capacity, new connections get throttled. Housing stalls. Industry passes you by. Tax base shrinks. Bills go up again.
— growthCOMPOUND DAMAGE
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