05.15.23 -- The Best Practices For Maintaining Safe, High-Quality Drinking Water

The faster a leaking pipe can be permanently repaired, the better. Learn about encapsulation fittings, which provide a quick, yet permanent, solution that avoids many of the worst aspects of repair jobs, including outdated sizes or materials, contamination, boil water notices, and much more.

Each year, there are nearly a quarter-million breaks that occur in the water mains serving the U.S. population. It is important for water utilities to be prepared for these leaks that will inevitably occur. Explore some of the best practices to maintain the delivery of safe, high-quality drinking water.

There is little doubt that fear of Murphy’s Law — “If anything can go wrong, it will” — among water and wastewater infrastructure managers rises proportionally with the diameter of the pipe. Read one example of how challenging a 36”-line repair can become, plus five guidelines to help decision makers minimize the risks of the same happening to them.

It is perhaps a water utility manager’s greatest fear — a rupture in a major water distribution line. Although such occurrences are sometimes unavoidable, proper planning and preparation can go a long way toward easing the sting of such a major event. But where do you start? Here are some guidelines that can prevent the next such occurrence from becoming a 6 o’clock news nightmare.

For many water and wastewater professionals, the fear of piping system leaks escalates in proportion to the size and the age of the pipe. Fortunately, custom fabrication flexibility in tried-and-true bell joint leak clamp (BJLC) designs can satisfy applications far beyond their original intent.