For anecdotal ammo I have a copper drinking water system. It has a hose bibb with at least a forty foot run from where it taps off of the rest of the system, so a 40' dead end. I've lived in this hose for approximately 20 years. The first year until winter I never used that outlet and when winter came I put one of those styrofoam insulating covers over it and I have only removed it once. Not to use the bibb but because it needed replacing. Nobody has died.
These rules are never based on statistical data but on someone's "good idea" and then race through the ranks of the anointed. There is nothing to use to refute them because there is nothing there to begin with. No problem, no data, no basis for argument. They win merely by conjuring that old saw of theirs, that their job is to protect the public health, as if ours is to poison their customers and light fires so we have a job. On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Jamie Seidl <[email protected]> wrote: > There were "passive purge" systems installed for a while. Go to the last > head, add a tee & tie it into the water closet supply line. It helped to > purge the stagnate water from the sprinkler system, if I remember > correctly, these were installed this way, pre-back flow requirement. This > was done in the north east on 13D systems for a while, not sure if they're > still installed this way. > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Sep 30, 2013, at 5:27 PM, Timothy W Goins <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Install a BFP downstream of the fireline connection... > > > > "For I am not ashamed of the gospel , , because it is God’s power for > salvation to everyone who believes..." HCS Romans 1:16 > > > >> On Sep 30, 2013, at 4:18 PM, Gary Stites <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Some of the water agencies are really "up in arms" about 13D systems > with > >> "dead ends". They are trying to limit the length of an armover etc. Any > >> good literature or discussions on potability issues on "stagnate" water > in > >> the end of an armover, drop etc.? I have an AHJ ready to go head to head > >> with a water purveyor...looking for ammunition. > >> > >> Gary Stites > >> > >> Design Manager, CAD/BIM > >> > >> RLH Fire Protection > >> > >> *[email protected]* <[email protected]>** > >> > >> 661-213-9379 > >> > >> 805-769-4626 > >> > >> > >> RLH <http://www.rlhfp.com> > >> Google+ <https://plus.google.com/101832074405776300082/posts?hl=en> > >> Mr. Ricky <http://www.mrricky.net> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Sprinklerforum mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> > http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org > > _______________________________________________ > > Sprinklerforum mailing list > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org > _______________________________________________ > Sprinklerforum mailing list > [email protected] > > http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org > -- Ron Greenman Instructor Fire Protection Engineering Technology Bates Technical College 1101 So. Yakima Ave. Tacoma, WA 98405 [email protected] http://www.bates.ctc.edu/fireprotection/ 253.680.7346 253.576.9700 (cell) Member: ASEE, SFPE, ASCET, NFPA, AFSA, NFSA, AFAA, NIBS, WSAFM, WFC, WFSC They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations. -Francis Bacon, essayist, philosopher, and statesman (1561-1626) _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org
