I think I know the building. Maintained is probably a little over-reaching.
To me, this idea sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. Mostly due to the lack of thought being put into it. At 06:00 PM 7/16/2010, you wrote: >Todd- >Not positive but I don't think you have to use a pit per 20. I will say I >have an annual in Norton, MA I do every year, old family-owned company now >closed (used to make wood pencil boxes for the US Govt. 1880-Korean War) but >pontoon building is maintained by a trust. 60's era VT in a pit long ago >fallen in, no gates or screens anymore (600 VAC to boot). If you can >imagine the duckies, fish, frogs, etc., that end up through my pitotless >nozzles (good thing no pitots), it's not pretty. We set them on the bank of >the pond to return the water but it's not really only water. Bad idea I >think. >TGIF >TD > > >I have seen this type installation at an old mill about 30 years ago (it was >installed in th 50's) but all pond source pumps I've done have been with >wet pit style.I guess what you are thinking could be done but I don't know >what you would be saving. >You still have to have a pumphouse built on the water to submerge the pump >shaft.By the time this is done,it would seem to be more expensive than the >more modern way of doing this. > >Lamar Vaughn > > >---- Art Tiroly <[email protected]> wrote: > > It is hard to visualize this to maintain reliability. Pond grass can be a > > big problem. Then you need access to pump screens. I would not be in favor > > of it do to reliability and maintenance. > > > > Art > > > > > > I have a client that wants to use a vertical turbine pump taking suction >out > > of a pond. He wants to take suction directly from the pond without a > > separate pit. I say he can suspend the pump into the pond, but he still >has > > to have an isolated sump with a trash rack for suction. Has anyone out >there > > done this before? > > > > Todd G. Williams, PE > >_______________________________________________ >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) Todd G. Williams, PE Fire Protection Design/Consulting Stonington, CT 860.535.2080 www.fpdc.com _______________________________________________ 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)
