Abstract:An efficient and economic method for diagnosing external water intrusion in sewage pipe networks is proposed to overcome the time-consuming and labor-intensive drawbacks of traditional CCTV inspection methods. The goal is to quickly narrow down the scope of dry-weather external water intrusion and improve the efficiency of sewage pipe network diagnostics. To address this issue, a monitoring mode based on the combined operation of online monitoring and portable handheld devices has been developed. First, the online monitoring data and zonal diagnostic techniques are used to identify the areas with severe external water intrusion. Then, the portable handheld devices further narrow down the problem scope to the specific pipe sections or clear water inflow points. This method applied to the actual diagnosis of a sewage pipe network in a northern city successfully narrows down multiple problematic pipe sections and precisely locates multiple external water intrusion points, which verifies its efficiency and practicality in problem diagnosis.