Page 14 - Tennessee 811 Magazine 2017 Issue 3

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my mam bn:ak~ are n. years and you’vL‘ gal an cxlmudcd
lmpurlant, loul Nm cmw before the mpalr work can bu ,
only Lhal they am pretty completed and In some c.1~'v:~ even " ‘_, .-
common Ask any water atarled

opnratur and they'll tcll you, they

happen n tlm Intznectluns and Vf:‘j'k$“;; if 1 {fly “";?=*“s §'°"P

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A. an old Wale: guy, Yvc had mm hmllcd tuna. and pezwnncl, lhcy wem ‘ ‘S V i _ _
than my ~harc of mpalnng Wale: mam mqulrcd to figure out how to malmaln l ~ .
bleak. |n the coldnal part of Wlnler «hm sy.-mm so that when emnrgnncm

when: the warmest placc lo «and was occurmd, they could focus on the break I

In Lhc dllth full of water |ry|ng [0 pm and not the flaws In Lhelr ayalcm. » , I
“ "“’“‘,’ °" ”‘°."“’°‘ M““” “"‘“"‘ One .ncl.wnlmnpnnnlnnannl mm ' 5:, ,—
couldn tcvcn alow the water down ,, ,

me, T11: breaks‘ n. out syflem can be

bncause [was unable to find (112 shutoff W R f _ d

valve 01' (hr: valvn frozen open. mjlggéubv:;g:§‘§;‘P<;{lm:"Vj§;,~ ‘

In .un.e of the larger mumclpalllies, lmponnnl that we repmr the lnnak as '

It may be nuccasaxy |o ~11u| scveml quick n. h pomlble."

vnlm to slow the volume cf water to a of mm ‘hm mm“ findmg an the

ruptuntd plplz. It takes appmxlmalely _ _

valves In ln. ay.s(I:lT|,W1'1lE1'1 win an

25 turns to close an ugh!-Inch gale ‘

V , _ ongmng pnnnn at Lhe umc of the v .
valve Multlpl). that by 15 or 20 valves . .
that l\avnn’l been cxeznsed 0: located ‘“‘°"'“‘“" T1“ "M Pm“ °‘ ”‘° P’°‘°“ ‘

w.1~ very lnlnmllng.
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