GPR Leak Detection in Mission, BC

Ground is everything in radar. Mission sits on predominantly steep till and bedrock benches above Fraser floodplain. Hillside till scans well between rock outcrops; the floodplain industrial flats are wetter. Slope properties put services shallow and traceable. We pick antennas and set depth expectations to that reality — and pair radar with acoustic confirmation so the conclusion never rests on one instrument.

The local mix follows the building stock: Hillside homes with long gravity-fed service runs, heritage downtown, and floodplain industry. In practice that means slab-line location before repairs, washout and void checks where pavement is settling, and buried-line mapping where drawings never existed — the everyday Mission radar workload.

Province-wide pricing — no regional premium for Mission or anywhere in the Fraser Valley. Single investigations start in the low-to-mid hundreds; larger properties and multi-system files are quoted by scope. The free phone consult (604-239-9934) produces a firm number in about five minutes. Mon–Sat, 8am–6pm PT.

It sees what leaks do to the ground. Radar reflects off contrasts — and water changes ground's dielectric behaviour dramatically. A leak shows as saturation signatures, disturbed or washed-out bedding, and voids where soil migrated into a failing pipe. GPR maps those consequences and the pipe's exact position; acoustic methods then confirm the active escape point. The pairing is the method — neither alone is the whole answer.

GPR earns its place when geometry is unknown or the ground itself is in question: no reliable drawings, suspected voids under slabs, pavement settling near a line, in-slab pipes that must be located before cutting, or rebar that must be cleared before coring into a repair. If the pipe's route is known and the question is purely 'where along it is the leak' — acoustics may be all the job needs, and we'll say so.