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Lite Headed · #1 08-21-2010, 10:35 AM

So every day going to my office , I pass this PVB along side of the road that has my curiosity up. It is a piece of roadside plumbing art that is located at a sports complex I keep telling myself that I have to stop and get some pics of it to share with all you guys. But hey, what's the rush? it will be there forever, right? Well, earlier this week I drive by to see it dug up. OH NOOOOOOOOOOOO...they are going to destroy the artwork! Note to self: hurry up and get those pics before it goes away. So yesterday, I left for my commute a few minutes early to get some pics.

So I get to the scene of the crime right around 7:00 am and park in a nearby parking lot and walk over to the art. I figure I could be in and out of there before anyone noticed.
I take one picture and about that time from behind me I hear a man say "Are you going to make us famous?" I said, "The pictures [I]might[I] end up on the web." Oops....busted. The two guys who had worked for the school district had pulled up and were right behind me. I told the two guys that I hadn't ever seen such clever plumbing before, They explained that the two 2" meters used to have separate PVB's but that somebody had stolen them both...busted them off with a sledge hammer. They only had one PVB on hand, so they came up with this idea.
I drove past it yesterday afternoon and they had done some "re-plumbing" on it.

Updates to follow...

hoskm01 · #2 08-21-2010, 10:43 AM

Yikes. Better than a single, I guess, but certainly not taking full advantage of the water from both. Looking forward to the update (are they going to do it right?)

Kiril · #3 08-21-2010, 10:45 AM

I might have asked them why they used SCH80 fittings and SCH40 pipe, pipe not wrapped, and why they didn't T below ground to avoid that above ground mess. Around these parts, that "art" would have failed a drive by inspection. I hope it was only temporary.

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