Australasian Corrosion Consultants (ACC) was commissioned by the North Melbourne Institute of Technology to investigate the cause of accelerated failure within the copper water pipe network at their Epping campus. In collaboration with Energy Safe Victoria, ACC identified that stray traction currents originating from the adjacent rail network were causing a shift in pipework potential, resulting in stray traction corrosion.
This type of corrosion poses a significant risk to underground metallic infrastructure and requires coordinated mitigation efforts across multiple stakeholders.