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True or False:
Early water supply piping was made out of hollowed out logs. |
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| What are the three methods of water distribution? |
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| Direct pumping, gravity, and combination |
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| What is pressure measured in? |
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| PSI- pressure per square inch |
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| What are different kinds of pressure that can be measured in a water supply system? |
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| Static, flow, discharge, and residual |
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| Friction is influenced by what 3 factors? |
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| Size of pipe, Condition of pipe, Length of pipe |
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| Hydrant Cap colors indicate what? Hydrant Top colors indacte what? |
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Caps = pressure
Tops = flow (GPM) |
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| When you are in a zoned water system what color hydrant do you take your supply from and what color hydrant do you pump to? |
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| Take from red and pump to white |
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| A blue top hydrant will supply you with how many GPM? |
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| What watershed feeds the Oakland water system? |
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| The first resovoir after the treatment plant which holds drinking water before netering the main grid |
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| Name the 4 components of a water supply system. |
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| Source, Processing/treatment, Means of moving the water, means of distribution |
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