H2O Global News: How Aquaspec Is Cutting Costs and Compliance Burden for Water Utilities
A Pennsylvania utility is using Aquaspec to bring regulatory reporting back in-house, shrink technical manuals and plan infrastructure investment — with humans firmly in charge.
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Bucks County, PAAI in water utilities is moving past experiments — and smaller operators are leading the way.
In a new feature, H2O Global News spoke with Richard Pierone, Director of Operations at Newtown Artesian Water Company, and Delta Bravo AI CEO Rick Oppedisano about what AI is actually doing for a small utility with big regulatory obligations.
Pierone found Aquaspec through a National Association of Water Companies meeting. Today his team uses it for regulatory documentation, operating procedures and asset management — work that once went to outside engineering firms.
$6K
Per Report
Outside engineering cost for a Consumer Confidence Report, now done in-house
3–4 hrs
Risk & Resilience
To complete an assessment from existing plans and templates
278→8
Pages
A treatment manual turned into practical field guides
Figures as reported by the utility.
What Changed
Expertise They Had. Time They Didn’t.
Compliance, Brought In-House
Consumer Confidence Report, Risk and Resilience Assessment and Long-Term Infrastructure Improvement Plan — prepared internally instead of outsourced.
278 Pages to 8
A PFAS treatment system manual condensed into short operations and maintenance guides, with every point traced back to the source.
Smarter Main Replacement
Leak history, pipe age and replacement costs combined to rank higher-risk mains — an assessment the team can rerun any time.
“The biggest impact has been reducing our reliance on our engineering firm for reports that we are fully capable of producing ourselves but previously did not have the time to take on.”
Richard Pierone
Director of Operations, Newtown Artesian Water Company
“The people who would benefit most from AI are often too busy to adopt it.”
Rick Oppedisano
CEO, Delta Bravo AI
“In regulated industries, humans will always bear the liability for consequential decisions.”
Rick Oppedisano
CEO, Delta Bravo AI
Aquaspec works from curated regulations, industry standards and each utility’s own records, and shows its sources — so operators can check every answer before it goes out the door.
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