The hydrant is either a middle of the line hydrant meaning there is no need to do it because hydrants further down the line are purged, or its a hydrant on a separate water line then what is used for tap water.
Was fortunate enough to work in the city service center for two summers where myself and 3 more twenty-somethings got to spend our days flushing hydrants all around town... Much bullshitting to be had like 1 hours lunches, swimming in the hydrant stream, and "accidentally" blowing water mains across the city. Great fun.
Hello Jaclyn! Also, take off the faucet aerators in your home occasionally and flush them. Test your water, filter it if necessary. Don't buy bottled water unless necessary.
It's the Ductile Iron Pipes and manganese that cause the redness in the water. There are no lead parts. Usually the only lead found is some service lines to the houses. If the homeowner runs their water for a couple minutes before use the lead that had settled into the water is flushed out and the water is usable.
Fire sprinkler systems dont have this done of course and when they’re installed, they’re filled with water. When they’re set off, brown rusty water comes out instead of clear water.
How are you getting sand in your water lines? This is nearly impossible without a water line break and flooding. If you have sand in your water lines you should be finding where the sand is coming from.
@@dnirvine We get sand because the main pipe broke once and while the workers were repairing it, they didn't cap it off and tons upon tons of really fine sand entered the water way. Now that sand has settled in pipes, occasionally making it out the facet if we get summer time water restrictions.
@@lazar2175 Yea, I've had sand and gravel get into the water line when I've repaired them as well. The line is suppose to be isolated using the main valves and then flushed before put the line is put back into service. The sand/gravel should not make it into the rest of the system. Not saying your repair guys did this though.
@WTHI-TV Sediments that are naturally in the ground DO NOT SETTLE IN THE BOTTOM OF THE WATER SYSTEM!! If there was any way that sediments from the ground are getting in a lot more water would be getting out of the water lines and surfacing. The orange and red are iron/manganese rust from the old ductile/cast iron lines. As utilities replace this the rust issue will start to get to be less and less.
josh ansley when you have to clear 50 a day, it can get exhausting. each valve also needs to be specced to 75 ftlbs torque-to-operate at the hat and the caps at 35. each op takes about 30-45 minutes.
One thing they did not mention are those expensive fire truck pumps that must stay as clean as possible. They can get gummed up or burn out because of pipe sediment making expensive repairs on the trucks or worse, seizing them up in the even of a real fire.
At 56 seconds of the video, the fire hydrant is far too high. It's supposed to be no more than 5' off of the grade so the break away flange separates along with the barrel if a vehicle collided with it other wise the part that will break other than the vehicle will be the underground distribution pipe. Then the water will be shut down for a whole lot of people while the ground is dug up and the system is repaired.
it is common to flush hydrants at night, when people are not using the water, by morning the water at your tap will be clear, and no sign of it even being done.
wasted exercise, when they flush the hydrant the initial pressure flow only grabs a small section of rusty slimy gunk from the bottom of the pipe and spits it out, and depending how thick set the gunk is the following water flow would just flow over the top of it, NRV's and BP valves fitted to the start of the branch pipe should stop most of the gunk returning to the main water feed, at least that's how it works on the UK hydrants
Wonder when we’ll replace the old pipes with hemp or another extremely resilient and corrosion resistant material. Could sleeve the pipes like many have begun to do saving millions in construction costs.
At my old school they never checked the fire hydrants yeah its dry hydrant like water has to be under ground freezing point so the hydrant doesnt explode from ice forming but someone hit it backing out and it came out of the ground and no water came out. I'm proberly live in a different area than you but come on.
Anders the pipelines that provide water to the fire hydrants are the same pipelines that provide tap water to homes. If it is just a waterline that is only used for fire hydrants they don't bother flushing it every year, only right before they hook a hose up to it. They only purge hydrants that are connected to the drinking water supply which is most of them.
wow people are so dumb these days.. omg water from old metal valves with iron content looks reddish brown..almost the same color as rust... dont know about this town but alot of the old construction in my town Pre 70s is galvanized pipe... and if your not constantly moving water from it the moment it sits then gets stirred from renewed use it breaks loose rust barnacles that can flow to your fixtures and clog them up..reducing your water volume/pressure. coincidentally this is why you get a water softener too. hard water builds up in the small holes your fixtures use to move water around and reduce flow/pressure. water softeners can increase the lifetime of costly things like water heaters faucets and toilets for often times 4x as long as they would with hard water.
as a side note if the city water dept does work in your area and shuts down your water for any period of time and you have metal pipes for your water... flush them out a outside wall hydrant first.. if something does break off and block the hydrant thats a lot easier to rectify then tearing a faucet bath or kitchen apart to get at the offending rust flakes
we used to play in that when we were little we would ride our bikes around following the fire trucks around the neighborhood.. good times
Who even does that???
People who arnt scared of dirt
@@LSnium When people actually went out side
And thats how you get infections, diseases, and all sorts of stuff.
@@LSnium you get diseases and infections from the covid vaccine
Everybody gangsta till he flush a fire hydrant and blood starts coming out
I have lived in the same house for almost 20 years in a neighborhood with the hydrant right by us and I have NEVER seen them do this.
The hydrant is either a middle of the line hydrant meaning there is no need to do it because hydrants further down the line are purged, or its a hydrant on a separate water line then what is used for tap water.
@Goodest Cat agreed.
Maybe it was done when you weren't home. 🤷♂️
@@allaboutroofing2 You never know!
Nor with my grandparents house
They have never said anything nor have experienced anything about fire hydrant flushing
Imagine if he wasn't in the mood to talk and just wanted to do his job
"Back off or I spray you"
0:42 my butt after taco bell
Haha
Was fortunate enough to work in the city service center for two summers where myself and 3 more twenty-somethings got to spend our days flushing hydrants all around town... Much bullshitting to be had like 1 hours lunches, swimming in the hydrant stream, and "accidentally" blowing water mains across the city. Great fun.
I want that job.
MilkCap I have that job
SeanMc1ntosh SWEAR
John Hill _SWEAR TO ME!_
MilkCap HOW DID I GET HERE O_O
UNACCEPTABLE!!!!!!
Hello Jaclyn! Also, take off the faucet aerators in your home occasionally and flush them. Test your water, filter it if necessary. Don't buy bottled water unless necessary.
Our drinking water taste like a swimming pool(Chlorine), no choice but to buy bottled water.
@@4u25out I live in Central Florida and ours smells like sulfur. So trust me I understand
@@4u25out when covid started I noticed the water here was heavily chlorinated. Might as well bath in the swimming pool.
call that Rust. many of them pipe are steel or cast iron. with lead parts.
Manganese rust
It's the Ductile Iron Pipes and manganese that cause the redness in the water. There are no lead parts. Usually the only lead found is some service lines to the houses. If the homeowner runs their water for a couple minutes before use the lead that had settled into the water is flushed out and the water is usable.
Le orange juice.
Fire sprinkler systems dont have this done of course and when they’re installed, they’re filled with water. When they’re set off, brown rusty water comes out instead of clear water.
Sand is a big one also, some of our end of the line hydrants have to be run 5 min or more to clear the sand out. Sand destroys pumps, a big expense.
How are you getting sand in your water lines? This is nearly impossible without a water line break and flooding. If you have sand in your water lines you should be finding where the sand is coming from.
Probably some desert area.
@@dnirvine We get sand because the main pipe broke once and while the workers were repairing it, they didn't cap it off and tons upon tons of really fine sand entered the water way.
Now that sand has settled in pipes, occasionally making it out the facet if we get summer time water restrictions.
@@lazar2175 Yea, I've had sand and gravel get into the water line when I've repaired them as well. The line is suppose to be isolated using the main valves and then flushed before put the line is put back into service. The sand/gravel should not make it into the rest of the system. Not saying your repair guys did this though.
@@linuxtuxvolds5917 Doesn't matter. Water lines are sealed and pressurized. If sand is getting into the water lines they have larger issues.
@WTHI-TV Sediments that are naturally in the ground DO NOT SETTLE IN THE BOTTOM OF THE WATER SYSTEM!! If there was any way that sediments from the ground are getting in a lot more water would be getting out of the water lines and surfacing. The orange and red are iron/manganese rust from the old ductile/cast iron lines. As utilities replace this the rust issue will start to get to be less and less.
they act like this is a hard job? shit wish I could just drive around opening up fire hydrants.
josh ansley fire fighters get at least 16 an hour to 27 an hour
josh ansley when you have to clear 50 a day, it can get exhausting. each valve also needs to be specced to 75 ftlbs torque-to-operate at the hat and the caps at 35. each op takes about 30-45 minutes.
30-45 minutes and you have to clear 50 a day? Literally fucking impossible for a single person haha
josh ansley like you have ever worked a day in your life
It's not about how hard the job is, its because people were moaning its a waste of water... that's why they did this news article
Flint, Michigan
One thing they did not mention are those expensive fire truck pumps that must stay as clean as possible. They can get gummed up or burn out because of pipe sediment making expensive repairs on the trucks or worse, seizing them up in the even of a real fire.
I work at a hotel and when the rooms don’t get rented for a while the water will run brown or blackish for a couple seconds must be the rust.
At 56 seconds of the video, the fire hydrant is far too high. It's supposed to be no more than 5' off of the grade so the break away flange separates along with the barrel if a vehicle collided with it other wise the part that will break other than the vehicle will be the underground distribution pipe. Then the water will be shut down for a whole lot of people while the ground is dug up and the system is repaired.
Flint, Michigan fire hydrants look that color all day
the colored water is the rust inside the barrel of the hydrant itself
MAPEXable no
It’s like this were I live in Texas except it’s darker and tastes awful and no one will fix it
Simply sometimes rust develops in the hydrant which makes that color, but it’s still possible that it’s not rust
1:27 my city has that fire 🔥 hydrant shape and color
Reminds me of high school when a kid pulled on the shower thing in science class and nasty brown water came out.
That’s nice and clean compared to are hydrants 20 min soiled rust
They have never done this in the town where I live.
Man they should open the 5" steamer
1:13 I'm surprised the video is only 6 years old when I saw that haircut.
We have a fire hydrant in our front yard and we have been living here for 7 years and we've never seen it get flushed.
ike fun no, but we would know if they flushed hydrants in our city.
Armando Salgado lol what?
it is common to flush hydrants at night, when people are not using the water, by morning the water at your tap will be clear, and no sign of it even being done.
Mostly iron build up from well water. It gets to bad they can put a iron system remover in expensive.
There no flushing the hydrant but the local water system/piping in your area.
I worked for Calif American for 35 years.......
Sullivan Ind. I'm from Linton.
Her last name is Bevis... Sounds like Beavis, she has the best last name ever.
*cough* *cough* Flint Michigan.
The fire hydrant by my house has only been flushed in 15 years
wasted exercise, when they flush the hydrant the initial pressure flow only grabs a small section of rusty slimy gunk from the bottom of the pipe and spits it out, and depending how thick set the gunk is the following water flow would just flow over the top of it, NRV's and BP valves fitted to the start of the branch pipe should stop most of the gunk returning to the main water feed, at least that's how it works on the UK hydrants
Because every time I have a question I can't answer I always call the local fake news tv station.
Preventive Maintenance
Bro you get hydrate flushing lucky I don’t get that at all
Its brown cuase of the rust inside. Yes we drink rust dont think you're safe unlike Michigan's lead because we drink rust.
Neil Degrasse Tyson opens up hydrants on his free time?
Wonder when we’ll replace the old pipes with hemp or another extremely resilient and corrosion resistant material. Could sleeve the pipes like many have begun to do saving millions in construction costs.
At my old school they never checked the fire hydrants yeah its dry hydrant like water has to be under ground freezing point so the hydrant doesnt explode from ice forming but someone hit it backing out and it came out of the ground and no water came out.
I'm proberly live in a different area than you but come on.
I lived next to one for 13 years and never seen it flushed nor the one down the street.
just because you didn't see it, doesn't mean it was not done.
@@richardreinhard8864 well not my block for sure because it was on front of my house as a kid. I dont think they will flush it at night.
@@richardreinhard8864 I was always in the yard
I've never seen them do this to the fire hydrant right next to my house
It may be in a high spot and doesn't need flushing
Maybe in it rusty, and could have been made the water brown
The fire hydrant by my house hasn't been touched in 10 + years
It is stuck 100%
Do not do laundry the day they flush ...turns white clothes brown
why tf is this on my recommended
Darnit Productions, This is relevant to your interests.
Since you commented many more will appear on your recommend.
@@dnirvine OH NO
0:47 After having some Taco Bowel
Who the heck drinks sink water?
ik its not a good idea.. but part of me wants to put my hand in the stream of a fire hydrant and see the result first hand./
You'll get wet.... no issue.
Who drank from the garden hose as a kid and survived because I did
Who cares what colour the water is? As long as it puts fires out...
rust destroys water pumps so they need to make sure the water is clear so that they don't destroy really expensive equipment
CurtF94 the same system is connected to homes and the flushing of the system removes rust and sentiment from the lines as well
Zane's Trains so it's drinking water
CurtF94 yes
Zane's Trains I live in England bro so that's new to me
0:19
It’s Drake and Josh’s Dad
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Me every time I need to pee really bad.
JOHNNY PUMP!
falo ñao fala?
Can’t put out a fire with dirty water.
Where's Butthead?
Mark C Good one I was thinking the same thing
Robert Ortega "Huuh Huh Huh yea, he said Spicket!" - Butthead voice
its a mechanical device not a machine
Me comeing home from a very long trip
They guy using his hands as a hammer will need carpet tunnel surgery later in life....
Oklahoma
Hi
Thought it was pee
rust ?
Thats rust alright its ok actually but do not drink it
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Marietta dont it at all
Beavis....
In almost all other countries this is not needed. Why cant USA adept our technology so they dont have to bother with this?
Anders Nilsson How would you recommend the US replace all of it's hydrants and pipes?
Anders the pipelines that provide water to the fire hydrants are the same pipelines that provide tap water to homes. If it is just a waterline that is only used for fire hydrants they don't bother flushing it every year, only right before they hook a hose up to it. They only purge hydrants that are connected to the drinking water supply which is most of them.
Isn’t that the fucken firefighters job 🤦♂️😂
Is anyone here who didn't know that?this makes news ?next!!!!!kitten on a tree
wow people are so dumb these days.. omg water from old metal valves with iron content looks reddish brown..almost the same color as rust...
dont know about this town but alot of the old construction in my town Pre 70s is galvanized pipe... and if your not constantly moving water from it the moment it sits then gets stirred from renewed use it breaks loose rust barnacles that can flow to your fixtures and clog them up..reducing your water volume/pressure.
coincidentally this is why you get a water softener too. hard water builds up in the small holes your fixtures use to move water around and reduce flow/pressure. water softeners can increase the lifetime of costly things like water heaters faucets and toilets for often times 4x as long as they would with hard water.
as a side note if the city water dept does work in your area and shuts down your water for any period of time and you have metal pipes for your water... flush them out a outside wall hydrant first.. if something does break off and block the hydrant thats a lot easier to rectify then tearing a faucet bath or kitchen apart to get at the offending rust flakes
Hey Butthead, this water sucks
Rust
+
Taco bell
This isn’t news
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Donald trump be like... fake news!
isaias bustamante butt hurt haters
Idiot
first
Lol first and only
Third?...
But does anyone care tho?
Hydrant are drink water so grosd
That water is gross
Do people actually drink tap water? Ew.
i don't want to shatter your entire world view, but the majority of bottling plants also get their water from the tap.
rust ?
Devines ZapataotlAr pij qpd yep and also debris that was placed there on purpose.