Check the pond banks, culverts and troughs from above.
A seeping bank, a blocked spillway or a culvert full of brush after a storm is slow to find on foot. We fly the water on your property with the zoom and thermal cameras: ponds, culverts, troughs and tanks, and the fields where water stands after rain.
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What we look for
Banks and spillways
Wet ground below a pond bank, a bank slumping, and a spillway with debris caught in it.
Culverts
A culvert blocked with brush or silt after a storm, before the water finds another way.
Troughs and tanks
Low or empty water, or a tank that has stopped filling. On a property with a dock, it can be part of the morning rounds.
Wet fields and leaking lines
Ground that stays wet after rain where drainage has failed, and a buried line leaking where the water and the ground differ in temperature.
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What a drone can't do
A dam's inspection is an engineer's job, and our photos support it rather than replace it. New York's Department of Environmental Conservation (opens in a new tab) recommends that a dam's owner look it over at least every three months and after a big storm or flood, and keep the record, with dated photos. A visit on a schedule adds what can be seen from the air to that record, and doesn't take the place of your own look. A buried leak shows only on days when the water and the ground differ in temperature, so one flight can miss it.
What a check gets you
What you get
| The report | Each thing we found, where it is on the property, and a close photo and a thermal photo of it |
| What a finding says | In words: Bank seeping, Spillway blocked, Culvert blocked, Trough low, Wet ground or Line leak |
| How it reaches you | An email tells you when the report is ready and what was found. It is kept with the property's previous checks. |
| When | After a storm, or on a schedule. On a property with a dock, troughs and tanks can be part of its rounds. |
| The aircraft | The Matrice 30T, launched at your property, or the Matrice 4TD from a dock on it. Both carry zoom and thermal. |