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Cleaning up: tech firm's SmartCover device can prevent 'nightmares': Escondido-based Hadronex detects sewage spills.

Publication: San Diego Business Journal
Publication Date: 27-APR-09
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Hadronex founders David Drake and Gregory Quist are trying to save the environment, and city budgets, one sewage spill at a time.

The Escondido business sells a radio-controlled device that attaches to the underside of manhole covers and monitors subterranean sewage levels. The SmartCover detects early signs of blockages, which, if left unabated, cause spills.

"In 2005, we went to agencies that owned wastewater systems and asked them what problems they had--what gave them nightmares. They said, 'Sewage spills give us nightmares,'" said Drake, who, like Quist, has an uber-technical background and serves on the Rincon del Diablo Municipal...

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