Schedule 40 PVC for water supply line
Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 10:40 am
Hello,
I'm a homeowner living in Upstate, NY, and I live on a cul-de-sac with 11 other houses on it. This road is around 1/4 mile long with each house having around 8 - 10 acres. The topography is a very steep hill -- more of a talus slope from an adjacent rock escarpment. There is very little water "up the hill," but there is an artesian water supply at the bottom where everybody has their wells (each house has a small "well lot" where there is seperate electrical service and individual pumps). Water lines then run up the hill to each of the houses.
All that said, when the road was built and the lots created in the mid-80's, schedule 40 PVC was used for the water supply lines. Since that time, there have been 40 to 50 breaks in the lines over the years. They are run literally right next to each other, and very often a break in one line will cause additional breaks in adjacent lines.
My question is this: is (was) schedule 40 PVC "legal" to use in water supply lines at that time? Over the course of the few years we've lived here (and the multiple breaks we've suffered), every plumber we've had working on the lines was surprised to find schedule 40 PVC used in such a configuration.
Thanks in advance for any information!
--Jim.
I'm a homeowner living in Upstate, NY, and I live on a cul-de-sac with 11 other houses on it. This road is around 1/4 mile long with each house having around 8 - 10 acres. The topography is a very steep hill -- more of a talus slope from an adjacent rock escarpment. There is very little water "up the hill," but there is an artesian water supply at the bottom where everybody has their wells (each house has a small "well lot" where there is seperate electrical service and individual pumps). Water lines then run up the hill to each of the houses.
All that said, when the road was built and the lots created in the mid-80's, schedule 40 PVC was used for the water supply lines. Since that time, there have been 40 to 50 breaks in the lines over the years. They are run literally right next to each other, and very often a break in one line will cause additional breaks in adjacent lines.
My question is this: is (was) schedule 40 PVC "legal" to use in water supply lines at that time? Over the course of the few years we've lived here (and the multiple breaks we've suffered), every plumber we've had working on the lines was surprised to find schedule 40 PVC used in such a configuration.
Thanks in advance for any information!
--Jim.