contaminating the potable water?
Whatever you do, keep us posted on what worked.
-Kyle M
From: Joe Burtell
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Fire Pump Backflow
This is a real
that), I'd appreciate a
> lesson in the physics of how/why?
>
> -Kyle M
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] RE: Fire Pump Backflow
I have doubts that the "engineer" has any clue what a jockey pump does or how
it works.
So, you'd have a connection on the suction side of the fire pump that typically
con
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Cc: Matt Grise
Subject: [EXTERNAL] RE: Fire Pump Backflow
For the jockey piping - I wonder if the engineer meant to say that you could
pressurize the portion of the piping between the backflow preventer and the
fire pump with the jockey pump. Maybe have an additional check valve after the
BFP, but b
has the budget for a break tank?
Matt
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I never had this problem before,
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> > > systems being fed from the same tanks that would necessitate the BFP?
> > >
> > > Cliff Whitfield, SET
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> > >
> > > Fire Design, Inc.
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ame tanks that would necessitate the BFP?
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> > Cliff Whitfield, SET
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> > Fire Design, Inc.
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> > Tallahassee, FL 32312
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I have a situation with a verticle in-line fire pump fed from water storage
tanks. We have a double check bac
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> I have a situation with a verticle in-line fire pump fed from water
> storage tanks. We have a double check backflow installed between the tanks
> and the fire pump
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I have a situation with a verticle in-line fire pump fed from
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I have a situation with a verticle in-line fire pump fed from water storage
tanks. We have a double check backflow install
I have a situation with a verticle in-line fire pump fed from water
storage tanks. We have a double check backflow installed between the tanks
and the fire pump but we don't have enough pressure to open the backflow on
the upstream side between the tank and backflow. I talked with Watts about
it. T
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