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  1. thomasfpe

    Hazen Williams safety factor

    WE get the same WaterCAD information in Northern California, mainly due to flow test restrictions in this extended drought. I find it odd that some jurisdictions still require full flow tests despite the water waste. It would seem to me that they would have some type of sensors out there to...
  2. thomasfpe

    Hazen Williams safety factor

    Thank you Newton and TravisMack. You both echoed what I was thinking in the OP, knowing that the equation is empirically derived, even if based in part on Bernoulli and a few other equations. I know that there are also certain parameters such as temperature and fluid speed that can really have...
  3. thomasfpe

    Hazen Williams safety factor

    Hello, I joined this board today after using it intermittently when I had a challenging project or problem. Now that I've been designing for a while, I have a question that relates to a 2011 post where I noticed that a member posted that the Hazen-Williams formula, if derived, has a 1.85:1...

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