Hopefully you are prepping for discussion with AHJ’s. Was tank a topic at 
pre-development meeting?

Best.

Bruce Verhei 

> On Mar 22, 2019, at 15:35, Steve Leyton <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> If the inference is that the presence of a standpipe system would impose a 
> hose stream allowance on the sprinkler system demand, that isn't correct. 
> However you would have to design for the standpipe demand or the sprinkler 
> demand which ever is greater.
> 
> 
> 
> Steve Leyton 
> 
> (Sent from my phone; please excuse typos and voice text corruptions.)
> 
> 
> 
> -------- Original message --------
> From: "Mark Sornsin [FAR]" <[email protected]>
> Date: 3/22/19 2:21 PM (GMT-08:00)
> To: "'[email protected]'" 
> <[email protected]>
> Subject: RE: Water Tank
> 
> If you DON’T have hydrants downstream, do you have a standpipe with hose 
> connections and an automatic supply?  I’m guessing not.  If not then you 
> don’t need the hose allowance (since there’s no place for hoses to be used).
>  
> 
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> Mark Sornsin  
> Sr. Fire Protection Engineer
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> From: Sprinklerforum [mailto:[email protected]] 
> On Behalf Of Travis Mack
> Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 8:57 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Water Tank
>  
> If you have hydrants downstream of the tank, do you need to account for site 
> fire flow requirements?
>  
> If so, you could be looking at 180k gallons and up. 
> 
> Travis Mack, CFPS, CWBSP, RME-G, SET
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> On Mar 20, 2019, at 6:45 AM, Brian Harris <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Looking for preliminary sizing for a water storage tank. Worst case for this 
> particular building would be OH-2. (.2/1500 = 300gpm + 250 hose. 550gpm for a 
> minimum of 60 minutes = 33,000 gallons). Per NFPA22 (2013) 5.1.3.1 round it 
> up to 40,000 gallons. Does that sound about right?
>  
> Brian Harris, CET
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