Water leaks.
Saturday morning I received a phone call from Frank Zellerhoff informing me that while on a walk at the corner of 268th and 99th AVE he hared water gushing inside the pressure reducing vault (P.R.V) that sits on this corner, this P.R.V reduces the water pressure down for lower Dockton. Inside the vault there are two lines one is a two inch line that does the primary supply of water and the other is a six inch line that is for fire flow, upon my direction Frank opened the vault and shut down the two inch line where the leak was (the six inch line at that point will maintain water and correct pressure).
A P.R.V has what we call a pilot valve that has two copper lines that run from both sides of the P.R.V, the pilot valve senses water pressure from these lines and tells the P.R.V when to open, how much to open and how fast to open in basic this is how water pressure is maintained. Over time water pressure will eat a hole in a copper line these lines are only 3/8 of an inch (small) at this point I make a hole new line with the appropriate bends reinstalling the flare nuts those secure the lines to the valves and make new flares those make the seal. This was the fix on Saturday about two hours.
Hake Road main leak.
On Tuesday I received a phone call from a customer on Hake Road informing me that he had water at a steady stream coming out of the asphalt at the top of his driveway. Hake Road’s water main is a two inch electrical conduit (yes you read that right) upon inspection yes it clearly was our main and not leaking bad in other words the water was not jeopardizing anything, I called in the Emergency dig permit the Emergency locates made door hangers for customers in the effected aria informing them what time date and reason their water will be shut off, the people that didn’t answer their door I left the hanger called Frank Zellerhoff and made arrangements to dig up and repair the main the next day.
What had happened the road had moved (you can see it in the asphalt) causing the conduit to pull apart at a coupling. It was a relatively easy fix two compression couplers and a piece of schedule 40 P.V.C pipe (the correct pipe) and everybody was back in water by 1:00 pm.