Hydrant Water Flow Test
Hydrant Water Flow Test
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thread184-235867: Changing Waterflows
Hello Members, I remember being told by a sprinkler company owner about 30 years ago that the first thing you do when either designing or estimating a sprinkler job is call and ask for the wate flow data. He said it could take as much as two weeks to get the information from the water company! Well, the two weeks has turned into several weeks or even 6 months depending on the water company. I even had a rural PA town give this responcibility over to a third party enginner who wanted $1500 to "plug in" the hydrant flow data. However, the worst case senerio is when the water company does the flow test for free and they ignore your calls or emails. How can we get a job on Monday and be expected to turn over the design on Wednesday when the construction office makes us get water data from private companies who can be have no interest in helping us? Is there some kind of State regulations requiring this data be available in a some reasonable time period? If you flow the hydrant yourself you can get charged with theft. We do work in PA & NJ but any experience would be helpful. Thanks!
Hello Members, I remember being told by a sprinkler company owner about 30 years ago that the first thing you do when either designing or estimating a sprinkler job is call and ask for the wate flow data. He said it could take as much as two weeks to get the information from the water company! Well, the two weeks has turned into several weeks or even 6 months depending on the water company. I even had a rural PA town give this responcibility over to a third party enginner who wanted $1500 to "plug in" the hydrant flow data. However, the worst case senerio is when the water company does the flow test for free and they ignore your calls or emails. How can we get a job on Monday and be expected to turn over the design on Wednesday when the construction office makes us get water data from private companies who can be have no interest in helping us? Is there some kind of State regulations requiring this data be available in a some reasonable time period? If you flow the hydrant yourself you can get charged with theft. We do work in PA & NJ but any experience would be helpful. Thanks!





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To include you will be glad to do it yourself
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Checking water flows for each city and who gets the info???
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Are you dealing w/ the right people? Tell them you need to perform a hydrant flow test and ask what the procedure is. Sure you could ask the water company but chances are they may think you're wanting to know pressures based upon their computer model - then they pass you over to their engineer who sits on it. Let them you know exactly what you want - a physical, hands on flow test,
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Buy the equipment and offer to give them (water purveyor/fire department) a free demonstration of a water flow test.
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If they can't wait weeks then tell them for additional money you can do the test yourself. Hopefully you excluded the flow test in your contract so you have a leg to stand on otherwise they may decide to make you pay for it.