Smoke Test Surveys
Smoke Test Surveys are commonly used to:
- Identify points where there is potential for ground water and storm runoff to enter the sewer
- Identify unexpected or illegal connections to the sewer
- Identify cross connections between pipes
- Detect structural damage and leaking joints
Smoke is blown in through the sewer system and observations of where the smoke exits (e.g. manholes, drains, cracks in the ground) are noted.
A Smoke Test object contains information related to a single survey of a pipe. Each Smoke Test object may be associated with a single pipe, and each pipe may have many surveys linked to it. There may be many Smoke Defect Observations associated with a Smoke Test object.
Smoke Test Surveys can be:
- created as scheduled tasks. Please refer to the Digitising Network Objects and Scheduled Tasks topics for further information.
- entered manually in the Smoke Test Grid View in the Survey Grid. Please refer to the Digitising Network Objects topic for further information.
Smoke Test Surveys can also be viewed and edited from the Smoke
Test Grid View in the Survey
Grid 
.
To select Smoke Defect Observations associated with a Smoke Test:
- Select one or more Smoke Tests
- Choose Select defects for selected smoke tests from the Selection menu.
Reports providing a summary and detailed information about selected surveys in the network are available. See Survey Reports for further information.
Validation is available to ensure that the Smoke Test is associated with an existing pipe in the network. See the Joining Selected Surveys with Pipes topic for details on automatically associating surveys with pipes by matching the PLR / Asset ID field of the survey to the Asset ID field of a pipe.
Use the Navigate |To Related Objects (
) toolbar option from the Smoke Test Survey tabbed Property Sheet or Object Properties Window to open
the Property Sheet for associated Smoke
Defect Observations, pipes, resources or materials.
Alternatively launch the Object Browser Window to displays object relationships and manage related objects.
