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Principals of Locating & Audit Preparation for Water System Personnel

7.0

Drinking Water

Pennsylvania Rural Water Association

Joel Jordan

jjordan@prwa.com

8143539302 Ext. 201

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Our nation's most valuable resource is water. This course is designed to instruct water company personnel in proper line locating techniques, leak detection and water audits to identify accurate amounts of consumtion. The idea of line locating is to prevent injury from excavating accidents thus promoting operators health and safety. Line location also prevents property damage to both the utility line and other adjoining utility lines, thus reducing cost and down production time to the water utility. The idea of leak detection is to prevent water loss and unaccounted for water in small systems. Leak detection also prevents property damage, thus reducing cost and down production time to the water utility. Proper water auditing promotes good business practices by encouraging systems to charge rates that recover all the costs assosiated with production of their water.

Basic thru Advanced

The ABC's of Leak Detection Introduction of Sonic Leak Detection Parts of a Sonic Leak Detector Types of Leak Sounds Choosing the Correct Filter Settings Leak Isolation and Pinpointing All Sounds are not Leaks Designing a Leak Detection Survey Choosing an Appropriate Leak Survey Accounting for all Water Consumed *on Practice Locating the Line Parts and Types of Locator Types of Locators Common Mistakes *on Practice Types of Conductors Information for an Annual Audit *for Water Unmetered Water Consumption Where do we go from here? Cost Recovery Analysis from Leak Detection Recap, Questions, Quiz

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