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It really does blow my mind how we deliver water so easily. And of course I have zero clue how it works past the faucet.
Well, I’ll be damned
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Are those red metal connector things shut off valves?
Those are small ones, but you are right, most people don’t see what Utility Plumbers do.
Managed public utilities, water, sewer and roads. We did some cool ass shit.
What does water minor look like!
As a Hydrovac operator in Northern Alberta, how shallow those lines are blows my mind. Water lines around here are 6-8’ deep minimum and I’ve seen them as deep as 16’. Even electrical/phone/gas lines tend to be a minimum of 36” but frost can get 5-6’ deep so anything that can freeze has to go deeper
Hot tap connection and shutoff valve
Why only one epoxy coated saddle and the other 2 stainless?
That’s gotta be somewhere that never gets cold. It’s too shallow for anywhere else.
I expected it to be bigger (that’s what she said).
Shut up! Really?!? (I’m serious)
How big of an explosion would it be if the water main was punctured like movies?
Maaaiiiinnnnnnn thats nice
That’s a strong accent in that headline
Did you spit after you typed this title?
Gucci Mane approves
My boss is looking to build a new house on one of his vacant land properties and the one he picked was a half mile from the water main. So it would take a half mile of pipe starting with an 8″ pipe reducing down to the typical 3/4″ pipe by the time it got to the house. This run would cost $300,000 so he scrapped the idea and is looking to build on another vacant lot.
Looks like you hot tapped it.
Are the orange things pumps? What is the other tube running off to the left? Power?
How do these things work?
Guessing this is fairly far south without a frost hazard?
Yeah that’s how I do it in SimCity.
That’s a very different view. You better explain what the water main part is and the water lines.
Hope you did a better job on that than you did on your sentences.
Why are the pipes to houses not bigger?
Now that’s in a warm climate. In frostier places those lines have go down deep to avoid freezing. Like six feet in places like Montana and such.
Also gonna guess iron ductile pipes. Could be wrong.
So you’re the main guy eh?
Are those Muller valves? Tsk tsk
Holy shit. This really does blow my mind especially since I work on the front end of the development process doing environmental review/ analysis and I am constantly writing that a given project will “make lateral utility connections” without knowing what that actually looks like. Thank you OP.
Your gate valves are showing
I can hear the title. Love it!
So that’s how you tap into the main line
What level of hell do you live in where water can be 6″ down and not freeze? The water main in front of my hose is 27 feet down.
I’ve put in water mains that are 24” diameter with 6” legs for fire hydrant’s and 1”/2” devices to buildings and houses. This looks like services from a 6” line.
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They let you install three saddle taps that close together?
First time seeing a water main. Thank you!
What up, main.
Strange how we can pipe oil and gas across the country but not water…
I would have never thought you make a hole, add pipe, then patch…
That seems like there should be another less bullshit option.
but if that works then it works…
I thought it would be bigger that’s what she said.
This summer our 35-year-old neighborhood got our streets all dug up to do some work on the sewer system. It was interesting to see all the infrastructure down there. It made me more cognizant of how much design and work goes into making society function on a basic level. I really appreciate indoor plumbing.
Definitely not my city, ours are buried 8′ under, yah shit gets cold here
This is some place warm. Otherwise, it would be buried much deeper.
Shallow ass water main god damn the hell is going on
water main for what? a bustling city of 10 modular homes? thats not a main at all. those three services combined are probably 1/3 or 1/4 the capacity of that line.