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This is not correct. Water Infrastructure designer here. All hydrants have a drain at the bottom of the barrel. And it would be normal (and easier) to install a valve on that leg to keep it from freezing.
It’s freshly installed, call the water dept and ask. I used to work for my city’s water maintenance crew installing and maintaining dry barrel hydrants, never seen anything like this setup.
I can't imagine they'd bother with underground infrastructure for a temporary construction site. Also hard to tell where this is, but at least anywhere I've worked in the US, there would be a meter on the hydrant to bill the contractor and a backflow prevented if that were the use.
I work large civil jobs and while I have not seen this application, line being buried leaving the hydrant, we install temporary hydrants all the time for construction. Construction water could easily cost in the millions of dollars.
I hadn't seen temporary hydrants before, although I'm more involved in road construction and smaller scale civil. On the handful of very large civil projects I've been on, I've still seen water mostly being supplied via water trucks until permanent lines are installed.
I'm mostly familiar with the setup I mentioned of just getting a permit to use an existing hydrant and the water authority putting a meter on it to invoice us accordingly.
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That’s a dry barrel fire hydrant. That’s a drain/outlet goes below frost depth so it doesn’t freeze
The pictures I'm finding show these draining through the main pipe. Do you have an example of this being done through the outlet?
This is not correct. Water Infrastructure designer here. All hydrants have a drain at the bottom of the barrel. And it would be normal (and easier) to install a valve on that leg to keep it from freezing.
how do you know this ?
I honestly have no idea, but I stayed at a holiday in express last night
Do you have a receipt? People bullshit about their credentials all the time.
I'm assuming you didn't see his name? It's u/frosty-inspector2830 . I'm sure they know what they are talking about
Of course, he stayed at holiday inn and that enough for me!
That hydrant isn’t meant tor fires, it’s to turn on and off high flow water to something.
Now I am just guessing here but that looks like a park, one that is slightly “bowl shaped”. I’m betting this is how they flood an ice skating rink.
Intriguing theory, his wife found his main
This is a median in an interchange. It slopes down to the highway.
is it even town mains pottable water ?
could be locally collected rain/ recycled water
It’s freshly installed, call the water dept and ask. I used to work for my city’s water maintenance crew installing and maintaining dry barrel hydrants, never seen anything like this setup.
It's been there for at least a month. I've seen it riding this bus route several times.
Probably feeding water to a construction site nearby
I can't imagine they'd bother with underground infrastructure for a temporary construction site. Also hard to tell where this is, but at least anywhere I've worked in the US, there would be a meter on the hydrant to bill the contractor and a backflow prevented if that were the use.
I work large civil jobs and while I have not seen this application, line being buried leaving the hydrant, we install temporary hydrants all the time for construction. Construction water could easily cost in the millions of dollars.
I hadn't seen temporary hydrants before, although I'm more involved in road construction and smaller scale civil. On the handful of very large civil projects I've been on, I've still seen water mostly being supplied via water trucks until permanent lines are installed.
I'm mostly familiar with the setup I mentioned of just getting a permit to use an existing hydrant and the water authority putting a meter on it to invoice us accordingly.
This is in New Jersey
Lol someone downvoted new jersey
Can you blame them?
You know how (Stuff) you could buy with that much pipe? Just think
Looks like a property owner stealing water from a municipality with absolutely no fear of repercussions.