Hi Justin, I just want to ...

Hi Justin,

I just want to give some insight on detecting water pipeline leak using physical properties of water. If you can isolate the pipeline, you can use metering zone to compare the volume differences between inlet-outlet which is considered as leak and pressure differences (seek for pressure drop) as Tim Acland mentioned earlier. Here you can use telemetry infrastructure such as data loggers.

Another approach is to do step test and midnight flow analysis where you isolate and close the outlet and see if there is any flow detected (you can use portable clamped-on flowmeter if you have no flowmeter installed on the field). If a flow exists, you can later use portable leak detector and trace the leak through the pipeline to find the leakage point.

Hope this help.