The best time to find a seized valve is not during a main break.
Annual valve exercising, hydrant testing, and system mapping programs for water districts — documented, scheduled, and priced so a board can budget it.
Every district has the story: a main lets go, the crew goes to isolate it, and the third valve in won't turn — or isn't where the map says. Now a two-hour repair is an eight-hour outage and a boil-water advisory.
AWWA recommends every system exercise its valves on a regular cycle. Almost no small district has the crew hours to do it. That's the whole reason this service exists.
Valve exercising & assessment
Locate, operate, assess, and document every valve on a cycle — GPS position, turns to close, condition, what we had to free up. Seized valves get reported, not discovered.
Hydrant program
Inspection, flushing, lubrication, and flow testing. Fire flow numbers feed your ISO rating — good hydrant data can lower your community's insurance premiums.
Locating & GIS mapping
We locate your lines — including what 811 won't mark — and build the map in a GIS your district owns. Funders increasingly require asset management plans; this is the foundation of one.
A budget line, not a surprise.
Annual or multi-year agreements with a fixed scope: so many valves, so many hydrants, so many miles, on a schedule. You get the documentation after every cycle.
One system walk-through starts it.
We'll scope a program from your system size and what records exist today.
Call (270) 970-0310