Every community owns water infrastructure. Almost none can see it leak.

As the targeting layer. Distribution systems commonly lose 10–30 percent of treated water to leakage, and the expensive part of recovering it is finding the leaks. Aerial thermal screening compresses kilometres of network into a ranked shortlist of suspect zones; acoustic ground crews then confirm and pinpoint. The result is a leak-repair program built on located leaks instead of assumptions — and a defensible cost-per-megalitre-recovered for the budget file.

Most start with a pilot scope quoted within delegated purchasing limits — one main corridor, one reservoir, or a handful of civic roofs — then graduate to annual programs or standing arrangements once the deliverable proves itself. Insurance certificates, WorkSafe BC documentation, RPAS certifications, and references are provided with the first quote; our paperwork is structured for public procurement from the first conversation.

Yes — that is a design requirement, not an afterthought. Anomalies are delivered RTK-geotagged in shapefile/GeoJSON alongside the mapped PDF, orthomosaics come as GeoTIFF in your coordinate system, and repeat surveys are co-registered for change detection. Findings drop onto your utility layers; crews navigate to coordinates, not descriptions.

Yes, in the correct role: we provide reconnaissance data — full-face thermal and visual mapping, geotagged anomaly registers — coordinated with and delivered to your engineer-of-record's surveillance program under the BC Dam Safety Regulation. We never position aerial screening as a substitute for the engineer's inspection obligations; it makes them better targeted and safer.

One program covers both — that is the efficiency municipalities value most. A single mobilisation can baseline the civic roof inventory, inspect the standpipe, screen a problem main, and document stormwater facilities. Building findings arrive quantified (square metres of saturated assembly, ranked severity) in the format facilities-condition assessments and capital submissions consume directly.

Portfolio triage mobilises within days under event-triggered arrangements: a pre-agreed asset list flown in priority order — critical facilities first — with time-stamped, geotagged documentation for insurance and emergency-management files. Several BC owners fly their pond and dike inventories after every significant atmospheric-river event on exactly this basis.

Leak.ca's own ground crews — acoustic correlation, ground microphones, moisture probing — the team that has pinpointed BC leaks since 1999. The aerial layer ranks the network; the ground layer puts a paint mark where the excavator digs. One vendor, one accountable chain of evidence from flight to repair.