Ron: If you're ever up (or over) this way, check out the Fernald State School in Waltham, MA. It's a loony bin. It's where James Taylor wrote "Fire and Rain". 12" ductile, 2 1500 GPM pumps, all grooved and flanged, the whole room is 12" ductile; huge, heavy and high in the air. Oh, and all belowground, a bunker with 20' ceilings, built during the cold war era. Tom
Steve, Good to know. Are they expecting the pump to be merely ductile or are they requiring one of those impossible to find at a price that won't break the Bank of Dubai pumps listed for per AWWA and UL?FM. Just had that come up on a private pump for a college campus where the EOR said it had to meet both criteria because there were fire lines off the dual duty loop. He was finally convinced that that loop for this small city sized campus was similar to a municipal loop and so the pump didn't need to rated for fire service. Then on the on-campus the high rises that needed booster pumps anyways and were off dedicated lines attached to the loop the pumps were UL/FM listed. My favorite Navy backflow install entailed a six inch riser splitting into a six inch bulk main and a four inch bulk main at about thirty feet off the floor. On the four in main (remember this is after the split) there is a four inch RPBA (remember thirty feet off the ground) installed with mega-lugs and rodding (guess what kind of contractor got that bid) and it's all over some machinery for a certain type of weapons testing (wish I could supply a photo but it's one of those have a camera and go to jail forever places). I pointed this out to the Navy Fire Department inspector years ago. This was years ago and hopefully it went to whomever is responsible (maybe the NAVFAC) and it's been corrected by now. Same building had the overhead crane grounded to the sprinkler system. _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum For Technical Assistance, send an email to: [email protected] To Unsubscribe, send an email to:[email protected] (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field)
