backflow prevention Articles
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Syncta and Watts Celebrate First National Backflow Prevention Day
On August 16th, Syncta and Watts were proud to celebrate the first ever National Backflow Prevention Day! Created by Watts, this special day honors the unsung heroes who work every day to keep our water supply safe. Those of us who work in the backflow industry already know the important role that testers and backflow prevention solutions play in protecting our water supply. But the general ...
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Successful Isolation of 48” Water Main and Backflow Prevention
Salem, OR When they contacted Hydra-Stop, the primary need for the City of Salem was replacing a section of the existing water mains that were aging and put the City’s water supply at risk. In order to do this they had to isolate the water main from the City’s water system. This 48” line had been in the ground for fifty years. There were significant concerns about the integrity of the pipe and ...
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Watts and Syncta Create a Connected Flood Protection System
Over the past five years, connected technology and internet-enabled products have become an integral part of our everyday lives. From video doorbells to household appliances, connected products provide us with valuable information, alerts, and allow us to perform tasks remotely through an app on our phone or other device. While we often hear more about these products for individual consumers, ...
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Security Assessments and Cross-Connection Control
Security Assessments and Cross-Connection Control We have all become more aware of security issues in recent years. Security has become a part of our lives. It affects our travel, the way we conduct business, even the way we live. Water utilities have incorporated many security measures into their daily operations. Large sums of money have been spent to conduct vulnerability assessments ...
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Sanitary Check Valves Astonishing Features
Sanitary check valves are mainly used to prevent the backflow of fluids. These valves only allow the flow in one direction. They are usually very small and simple. As the name suggests, they are designed to maintain a high level of hygiene while maintaining a continuous flow of the medium. These valves are mainly used for highly viscous liquids such as gels and ice cream. Sanitary check valves ...
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Hirschthal, Switzerland protected with WaStop DN1200 - Case Study
Location: Hirschthal, Switzerland Problem: During times of high river levels, flooding occurred in the town of Hirschthal. This flooding occurred when the river level was higher than the stormwater outfall. This lead to river water pushing back up the outfall pipe, and spilling onto roads and residential areas. Solution: A DN1200 (NPS 48″) WaStop inline check valve was installed inside ...
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Sanitary Check Valves Principles and Parameters
The sanitary check valve will open when the media flows forward and will close when the medium returns to flow. These are mainly automatic valves, whose main function is to prevent the backflow of the means, as well as to avoid the inversion of the pump and the drive motor and the release of the container means. It is also used for safety protection in auxiliary systems where the pressure can ...
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Introduction of Check Valve
With the continuous improvement of high-tech development, valve conditions are also getting higher and higher. New valve products continue to enter the market, the upgrade of drive mode, changes of structures as well as temperature and pressure corrosion on the material requirements of the check valve, have improved respectively. Check valve relies on the flow of the medium itself to ...
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WaStop prevents flooding on Meritt Island Case Study
Problem: Brevard County converted two borrow pits into retention ponds for polluted stormwater collected from the Pine Island Canal. This waterway collects stormwater from a 5,970 acre drainage basin, including citrus groves and agricultural land, and deposits it into the Indian River. A method for allowing water to flow from the canal to the converted borrow pits and to prevent backflow from the ...
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Benefits of Rubber Check Valves for Processing Harsh Fluids
Learn how this material choice can help municipalities prepare for extreme weather and other challenging conditions Natural disasters remind us of the unpredictability we all face on a daily basis-but on a grander scale. Weather events especially can cause large amounts of damage with little warning and in extremely short periods of time. But their reach isn’t over when the storm passes. ...
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Drinking Water is Safer Than Ever
Let There Be Wine - But Not in Our Drinking Water Reports of backflow contamination have become increasingly rare because backflow prevention devices work - at least for the most part. In March 2020, at the beginning of the pandemic, the last thing residents of Castelvetro, Italy were likely thinking about was their drinking water. So imagine their surprise when they turned on their faucets and ...
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Fascinating Features of Sanitary Check Valves
Sanitary check valves are mainly used to prevent the backflow of fluids. These valves only allow the flow in one direction. As a matter of fact, they are one of the few valves that have been self-automated to open and close with no assistance. Unlike other types of valves, check valves continue to work even after the plant has lost air, electricity or manual control from the operation team. They ...
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Why You Should Use Sanitary Ball Valves
Sanitary ball valves are used in a wide range of applications involving high pressure. These valves are popular for two main reasons. First, they allow unrestricted total flow that does not allow any hardware restriction through the valve. Second, the valve can also be serviced without the complete removal of the valve from its attached position. This is due to its three-part design that allows ...
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ROMAG storm water screen system for the CSO works La Maladière in Neuenburg
With the RSW-K high-capacity storm water screen and a emergency shut-off valve, the volume of the upstream sewerage system is optimally utilized and the receiving body ideally protected against contamination. The storm water screen removes visible solids from the sewage water before the water is discharged into the receiving body. At the La Maladière surplusing works, the ROMAG RSW-K ...
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WaStop Access protects residents in Lewiston NY, USA - Case Study
Location: Lewiston New York, USA Client: City of Lewiston Problem: The effect of combined sewers (combined wastewater and storm water) and an area prone to flooding from the Niagara River, a section of Upper Mountain Rd in Lewiston New York have experienced repeated flooded basements. On a visit with Jeffery Ritter of the City of Lewiston, Bob Wiltshire of Koester Associates discussed the ...
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Preparing a Beachside City for Future Storm Events with Proco ProFlex™ Check Valves - Case Study
Project: Post Hurricane Sandy Storm Drainage Update Location: Long Branch, New Jersey Contractor: Precise Construction Proco Products Agent: Valve Tech Sales Distributor: Atlantic Waterworks Long Branch is an oceanfront city of about 30,000 people in northern New Jersey. Much of the city borders the Atlantic Ocean to the east or the Shrewsbury River to the north. In 2012, Long Branch was one ...
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How to prevent standing water with unique new check valve
What is a Check Valve and Why is it Useful? Check valves are used in all stormwater and wastewater systems. They allow the forward flow of fluids before closing to prevent backflow conditions. These valves come in a variety of diameters and designs, including swing, ball, diaphragm and duckbill check valves. They are simply designed, passive devices that rely on flow velocity and pressure to ...
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Delivering automation to test stations - Case Study
CeraMem Corporation is a developer of metal oxide gas concentration sensors in Waltham, MA. Their test engineers required mass flow controllers that were easy to intregrate and calibrate. They also demanded fast response and high accuracy in order to reduce test cycle length and improve the quality of the data. Test station requirements demanded that controllers were capable of adjusting ...
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Case study - Shopping center avoids litigation by resolving sewer odor problems
Mazzei Injector Company, LLC is a recognized industry leader in gas to liquid mass transfer primarily from its proven 25 year experience with ozone applications. In addition, Mazzei has installed the same patented Venturi injector and mixing nozzle technology in many municipal and industrial wastewater systems in applications at lift stations, equalization tanks, aeration basins, activated sludge ...
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Hydroflo diaphragm pumps help reduce boiler corrosion and maintenance costs
ABTCo, located in Alpena, Michigan, is a decorative wood paneling producer using three boilers to generate 7 MW of electricity – half the power needed in the plant plus steam for pulp processing. As in many boiler operations, the main enemy is corrosion, which can destroy system components and lead to boiler failure. Although internal boiler surfaces are protected by a film of magnetic ...
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