water main valve Articles
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Preventing & Thawing Frozen Pipes
A “how-to” guide on preventing and thawing frozen pipes. As temperatures drop below freezing around the country, it’s important to be informed of the cold weather’s effect on your water pipes. When temperatures are below freezing, pipes in unheated areas are subject to freezing causing messy, and often expensive issues. Just one burst pipe running at 4-8 gallons/min can ...
By WaterSignal
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Case study - Kitchen extension in London
This small detached house in North West London has enough roof to collect useful quantities of water and the owners have already shown that they are saving money. The Site Marilyn and Gerry Devine’s installation shows that you do not have to own a huge property to be able to benefit from rainwater harvesting. Their small detached house in North-West London has enough roof to collect useful ...
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Portable Hydrant Flow Meters
Leading the way for hydrant verification flow and pressure measurement Langham Industrial Controls strive to provide the most innovative market leading hydrant verification instrumentation. The Horizontal Standpipe Flow Meter provides unrivalled accuracy of ± 0.5% within a wide flow range. The swan neck design ensures that the AquaMasters electromagnetic sensor is always full and as the ...
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Top 8 things to check when maintaining a Pressure Reducing Valve
Like every other piece of mechanical equipment we use, a control valve does require some maintenance. As budgets are stretched and time is tight, it can be tempting to ignore checking on valves that are often located in underground vaults and give years of operation without complaint, but eventually like everything else, they will fail. This article looks at 8 simple steps that if undertaken ...
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Condominium replaces water softener with green Scalewatcher water conditioner
Angel*Haus Condominium, a condo community in Purgatory’s Durango Mountain Resort, Colorado, has replaced its water softener with the computerized, electronic, water-conditioner Scalewatcher from Scalewatcher North America. By installing Scalewatcher, the condominum has improved the water quality, removed the need to buy and store salt and substantially reduced its water costs. Angelhaus ...
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Alert Labs Expands Water Tech with Flowie-O & Shuttie Saving Water & Damage
Flowie-O and Shuttie lower utility costs and minimize property damage for residential, multi-family, and commercial buildings. Water Flow Sensor: flowie-o Alert Labs announces the expansion of its water sensor technology to help more organizations reduce wasted water, property damage, and utility costs. Building on the success of the Flowie water flow sensor, Alert Labs has now expanded its ...
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Virus contamination from operation and maintenance events in small drinking water distribution systems
We tested the association of common events in drinking water distribution systems with contamination of household tap water with human enteric viruses. Viruses were enumerated by qPCR in the tap water of 14 municipal systems that use non-disinfected groundwater. Ultraviolet disinfection was installed at all active wellheads to reduce virus contributions from groundwater to the distribution ...
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Maintaining a pressure reducing valve: 5 things to check
Like your car, your body and nearly every appliance you own, control valves require regular maintenance to continue working efficiently. However, due to budget and time constraints, we don’t always give our valves the TLC they need to perform at their best. Unfortunately, ignoring pressure reducing valves can mean serious issues go unnoticed and often lead to expensive repairs. By ...
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Employee Safety
Employee Safety The following is a summary of accidents that occurred and were documented by OSHA and city management. The average total cost for a common slip and fall accident is $41,000 and the average death reimbursement is $950,000 (NIOSH 2001 data): Multiple Deaths Caused by Carbon Monoxide in a Confined Space A team was setting off explosives to excavate holes for pipelines. Soon after ...
By GillTeq, LLC
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