Never heard that

Maybe the solution is to replace the existing double check with reduced 
pressure or ask the purveyor to explain his logic and the code that drives that 
logic


Rick Green

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Sent: Wed Jul 02 08:21:05 2008
Subject: RE: Backflow device and steel pipe

Well forumites, I've gat a new one (to me).

Customer wants a small anti-freeze system on a loading dock. The existing
system is a steel pipe system with a double check backflow at the service
entry.

Normally I would just tap into the closest main (5 feet away), drop down to
a reduced pressure backflow and install an expansion tank and the eight head
anti-freeze system.

The water purveyor now tells me that is unacceptable. They want the
anti-freeze system tied into the ductile iron pipe at the service entrance,
before the existing double check, and fed with non ferrous pipe. They say
they do not want any type of backflow device fed with black steel pipe.

This, I believe, is not a code issue.

Has anyone run into this situation before?

Thanks in advance,

 Mike Wisneski




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