Was this job located in Colorado, you would become one of the 2800 Water purveyors in our state, just by having multable wells, and the responsibility to supply potable water. (I wish we could refrain from using "Domestic" water, a plumbers term, and refer to potable or non-potable water sources.) Here in the west, you'd better own those water rights before you even think of drilling a well.
Your situation sounds similar to a Int. Latex plant I worked on long ago. They used the process water holding tank for their fire sprinkler system supply, and relied upon the municipal water supply for the fire hyd. And potable water. (The tank was a 2 million gallon holding tank built to NFPA 20, that was alarmed if the water level dropped below 1.5 M Gal.) Diesel and Elect fire pumps. Deluge systems at the Butadiene storage and unloading stations, High density in warehouse and loading docks, and lower density in reactor areas, because they go BOOM before they burn. Thom McMahon, SET Firetech, Inc. 2560 Copper Ridge Dr P.O. Box 882136 Steamboat Springs, CO 80488 Tel: 970-879-7952 Fax: 970-879-7926 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 8:46 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Wells as a water source 2007 - NFPA 20, Section 7.2 Water Supply, gives plenty of information regarding wells as water source. NFPA 1142 also provides some guidance while not making recommendations for plants such as this. So there is information outside of the NFPA 13 set for this type of supply. While not optimum, there are cases where it is the only source. Where the reliability may be questioned it would obviously be prudent to specify a storage tank as the primary source. At this stage of the project they have no procedures for anything. This is the concept stage where you weed out all the potential problems, irregularities, and obstacles and then work with the client and local AHJ's to come to a resolution. Craig L. Prahl, CET field) _______________________________________________ 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)
