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Fire Suppression Water Drainage

30 day fire watch for frozen and broken piping?

My guys will like that, maybe the temperature in the attic will be a bit warmer.
 
I believe a break/leak would be considered an emergency, but has to be reported as a spill.

I am more interested in all the NFPA 25 tests, plus the multiple drain/fills of construction/remodel. Will CDPHE as part of their permitting process require a test, and if contaminants like iron (the horror!) are found, require containment of the water or drain to sanitary? WTF are we suppose to do with the water from a PRV hose valve test? I am sure all you CA guys think this is old hat. You are probably distilling everything before you dump it down the drain right?

Also, they seem to think that the fire pump is on the potable water side of the BFP and therefore a fire pump test is excluded. Hope they don't find out a fire pump is downstream of the BFP.
 
In some areas, pressure washers are allowed to put the water on the yard. There the waste water will evaporate, or soak into the ground.
 
Looks like each building will have to get a discharge permit to allow for periodic discharges for maintenance and testing.

Wonder what idiot dumped a large system's worth of black water directly into a trout stream or something to get people concerned about this issue?
 
Last I knew, this was still a draft and was being opposed by everyone exhibiting any measure of intelligence on the subject. Has this changed?

If it manages to become enforceable, my guess is that it will be largely ignored. There isn't a chance in hell that CDPHE will have the resources to track this, and they are going to be all alone in trying. With the fire service being CDPHE's eyes and ears on so many other things, they're really shooting themselves in the foot here.

JMHO
 
They are likely concerned with incidents like this one where a large drinking water spill from a water main break is thought to have killed off the fish in two ponds. Although the quantities of water released are likely a couple orders of magnatude larger than a pump test.

http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/news/2012/feb/07/tdmet01-state-tests-find-high-chlorine-levels-in-h-ar-1669184/

Underground flushing could also be a concern-- a 12 inch line takes 3500 gpm to get the 10 fps velocity for flushing.
 
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