PUMPS & VALVES RESOURCES
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When Kent County Water Authority faced the urgent replacement of a 94-year-old hydrant tied to a 1931 cast iron main, they were determined to maintain fire protection and avoid customer disruption.
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Challenges associated with deploying smart water technologies include "Where do I begin?" and "Who do I use?". These questions can often be barriers to small and mid-sized utilities that have limited resources available to them and are already burdened with competing daily priorities.
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AMERICAN is helping rebuild Puerto Rico’s vital water infrastructure after Hurricane Maria, supplying American-made products to strengthen resiliency for 3.5 million residents and millions of annual visitors.
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Water pumps play an essential role in ensuring efficient water treatment for municipal and industrial systems. Their ability to manage both high-pressure requirements and complex water flow demands makes them indispensable. From maintaining irrigation systems in agriculture to supporting large-scale manufacturing plants, pumps are a backbone of sustainable water management.
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Choosing the right process control valve is essential for ensuring operational efficiency and reliability and avoiding expensive downtime. The advent of online sizing and selection tools has transformed the process of selecting valves, providing a more efficient and accurate way to determine the best valve for each specific application.
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How does a contractor navigate the installation of new water and sewer mains in a neighborhood with heavy traffic, narrow roadways and extensive existing underground infrastructure? The answer is the ALPHA™ restrained joint by AMERICAN Flow Control.
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Discover how Hydra-Stop’s insertion valve provided new control points without impacting service to surrounding customers.
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Learn how Hydra-Stop’s insertion valve provided new control points to mitigate future disruptions during a service line emergency.
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In this case study, read about a community-owned utility that partnered with AMERICAN to provide 53,000 feet of ductile iron pipe for a new water reclamation facility.
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When a water resource recovery facility started seeing hydrogen sulfide levels of more than 500 parts per million, its force main began to deteriorate. The facility expected it would have to replace the gates that were original to the facility, considering the environment around them was destroyed, but upon further inspection it was found that the gates had suffered no damages.