Benko, a division of Badger Daylighting, is a multi-disciplinary company that specialises in CCTV inspections, maintenance and flushing\cleaning of sewers, catch basin cleaning, smoke and air testing, and hydro-excavating. For the past 15 years, Benko has serviced and supported customers from all regions of Ontario. Benko uses only industry leading products from the most respected manufacturers in the world today, offering diverse applications to meet the needs of both private and municipal clients.

The IBAK - LISY lateral launch system was introduced in 1993. The first of its kind, the LISY has evolved throughout the years and still provides users with unparalleled control, capability and picture quality.

Over the past year, the company has increased its existing fleet of CCTV trucks by acquiring four IBAK lateral launch units to complement and maintain essential wastewater services. The trucks have been used to carry out lateral launch contracts in both the municipal and private sectors and have to date pushed over three thousand lateral launches as well as increasing the capacity for regular mainline contracts.

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Benko has had great success with these units in respect to productivity, reliability and quality of the end product. The picture quality is constantly noticed by clients and maintains a consistently high quality in any pipe size. The operating platform for the CCTV operators is quite different from the rest of the fleet, but training has been of minimal effort due to the user-friendly nature of the control system.

The company focuses on quality equipment, such as the Badger Hydrovac units, and sees this as being the key to achieving success in the industry. The company believes that IBAK has been the equivalent on the CCTV side of the business and has given the ability to mix high quality equipment with high quality operators to achieve a superior service.

Benko has been employed on a contract within the city of Toronto, which requires locating the depth and line of the sewer connections up to the building line. The advantage of this method is that there is no intrusion to residential property (in order to remove toilets) to achieve the same location results. The main contract being carried out at present is lateral locating using the IBAK - LISY. The trucks are pushing lateral launches every day.

A Benko spokesperson said “we have faced many different scenarios with the condition, line, material of the pipe, but the IBAK Lisy has been consistent in giving us the results we are looking for. One area in particular would be where there is a ‘Y’connection within the sewer lateral.

“We are able to push both ways through the ‘Y’ by using the pan and tilt motion and the guide rod to direct us into each line as required.”

The spokesperson said another key advantage with the system has been the capability of carrying out a manline ‘manhole to manhole’ run and to seamlessly carry out required lateral launches along the line using the same camera and data collection software without the need to produce separate video files and reports.