Archive for November, 2011

Sheraton Mirage saves thousands of dollars in water charges after leak inspection

Thursday, November 10th, 2011

Sheraton Mirage on the Gold Coast reported their large lagoon swimming pool was leaking.

Approximately 25000l per day was being added to keep the pool in operation.

After extensive structure testing and pressure testing of all lines, a large leak was located inside the “ballast pipes” between the kid’s pool and the large resort pool. Due to the difficult location of the leak it was repaired using internal sleeving / relining of pipeline.

All this work was able to be conducted with minimal disruption to resort guests and no closure of the pool areas.

After great success with the resort pool Sheraton Mirage also employed Australian Leak Detection to locate the cause of sudden rapid water loss to their main pond /water features. We were able to determine the water loss was occurring through the structure or body of the ponds and not the water features or pipe lines. This allowed us to concentrate on the structures of the ponds and not waste time and money testing the extensive pipe work and filtration systems. The leaks were discovered to be from rapid movement of some of the expansion joints, with a combination of smaller leaks on other sections of the expansion joints.

“Thanks to Australian Leak Detection, we were able to save thousands of dollars in excess water charges and hundreds of thousands of litres going to waste,” hotel management said.

Experts called in to investigate water loss at local resort

Thursday, November 10th, 2011

Versace’s full time pool techs discovered large volumes of salt were constantly being added to two large water features in the resort’s pool areas. Australian Leak Detection was called in to investigate the loss of salt as a result from this water loss.

Full structure and pressure tests were conducted on the water feature. But only three small leaks were discovered in light conduits when the feature was in operation and these leaks were not large enough for the volume of water lost. This enabled us to find there was a flaw in the new “power saving procedures.” In the months prior to us investigating the leaks, operating procedures had changed and most of the water feature’s pumps were shut down at night to save electricity.

We discovered the water in the upper tiers of the water feature flowed down into the lower tiers. The lower tiers then filled so fast that the shutdown system could not pump the water back and simply overflowed and down into the stormwater.

When the system started the following day the ballast tank would almost empty and the auto fill system would kick in to replace the lost water overnight.