An Independent Voice for
Pipeline Infrastructure Intelligence
Our research and tools focus on Florida's wastewater pipeline infrastructure, with national datasets where they inform the Florida picture. Our work is grounded in two decades of field experience and a single conviction: the data we already have is enough to make better decisions, if we are willing to look at it honestly.
The Problem Beneath the Headlines
Most public conversation about wastewater infrastructure focuses on visible failures: collapsed mains, sinkholes, sewage in the streets after a storm. The underlying problem is quieter. Across the country, aging private laterals, broken service connections, and degraded mainlines allow groundwater and stormwater to enter sewer systems in volumes that overwhelm treatment capacity, strain budgets, and trigger sanitary sewer overflows.
This is the infiltration and inflow problem, and the lateral side of it remains under-studied, under-funded, and under-discussed. infraTerra exists to change that by surfacing the data, modeling the costs, and giving the people responsible for these systems the analysis they are not getting elsewhere.
Three Commitments
Associations, Memberships, and Agencies We Support
Founder infraTerra
Chris Parker
A Note from the Founder
Lateral infiltration is the largest unmeasured liability in American wastewater infrastructure. infraTerra exists to make that consequence impossible to ignore.
For more than twenty years I have worked alongside utility planners, contractors in the field, and the engineers writing the specs. The pattern is consistent. Utilities spend hundreds of millions rehabilitating public mains, the work that is easiest to fund, easiest to bid, and easiest to defend, while the lateral infiltration sources sitting under private property go unmeasured and untouched.
Our intelligence tools and research are grounded in real-world field experience, not theoretical models. They are designed to be useful first and persuasive second. If the work helps you make a better decision about a system you are responsible for, it is doing its job.
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