Question: What's your acceptable failure rate?

Orthos personnel recently participated in a filter assessment training class in our home state of South Carolina. Numerous water plant operator attendees openly joked about their lateral underdrains and how many of them have failed.  There is a dirty little secret in our industry that Orthos intends to bring to light. Repairing or replacing a failed filter underdrain is very costly and may put the community’s water supply at risk.

This should not be, and our industry deserves far better.  In 24 years and with 200 filter installations, Orthos has never once, ever, had a monolithic filter underdrain failure.  This record of resiliency, reliability, and permanency is what utility clients demand and what should be delivered.  We know that Orthos is competitive on front-end costs (learn more here), and when the reinforced concrete underdrain is installed, it becomes part of the civil structure and will last likely a century.