I'm the engineer for a local water utility company in Louisiana. When we perform waterline replacements/installations, many times we are running a line in a heavily populated area, so we have to HDD the waterline to avoid conflicts. We run C-900 everywheres now. For any called out bore, we...
I am trying to develop system curves for a booster station that got destroyed during Hurricane Ida. We need new pumps as the old pumps were inundated with salt water and received some wind damage. I've read some previous posts that were very helpful about developing a system curve for a booster...
I am an engineer for a local water system in south Louisiana. We have a raw water reservoir that was constructed out of gunnite. It was constructed about 40 years ago. We did some testing recently to determine our low level draw down of the reservoir and during that test we noticed quite a...
I am currently working on a project where we are replacing some old piping and valves inside of one of our booster stations. The lengths of the spool pieces that need to be installed will need to be field-verified prior to installing. Because of this I called for FL x PE pipe so the Contractor...
Working on a project where we are pulling our altitude valve and bypass line out of an underground pit at one of our elevated storage tank sites. We are relocating into an above ground building for better access. Building will be situated on a slab on grade. We will have a pipe penetration...
