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Ottawa Fire Services Dry Hydrant Project

(Formerly, West Carleton Fire Dept.)

Bleeder Valve

Aluminum plug with built in air valve. This new plug will allow the pipe and dry hydrant to be pressurized from an air bottle, compressor or "air pig". Replacing the water in the dry hydrant pipe with air, giving more security in area's of freeze-up with regular maintenance.

Did You Know?

Maintaining the Fire Underwriters Survey "Superior Tanker Shuttle Service, equivalent to hydrant rating classification” can give your rural home and business owners located within 8 km’s. of a fire hall 10-25% off their fire Insurance. The requirements of hydrant rating classification are to supply water within 4 minutes of arrival on scene at a minimum of 200 gallons per minute and maintain this flow for at least two hours. Dry hydrants can help you achieve this Insurance Advisory Organization accreditation. Property owners should also inquire about a further fire insurance discount if your home or business is located within 1000' of a dry hydrant installation.

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Ontario Building Code

3.2.5.7 Water Supply

(1) An adequate water supply for fire fighting shall be provided for every building. (See Appendix A.)

(2) Hydrants shall be located within 90 m (295 ft 3 in) horizontally of any portion of a building perimeter which is required to face a street in Subsection 3.2.2.

3.5.3.11. …

(4) Where on-site reservoirs or other established water supplies are used as a fire department draft source to meet the requirements of Sentences (1), (2) and (3), they shall be equipped with dry hydrants in accordance with Appendix B of NFPA 1231, "Water Supplies for Suburban and Rural Fire Fighting".

NFPA Standards for dry Hydrants

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In Detail:

Dry fire hydrants for suburban

and rural firefighting

Ontario Fire Service Messenger May/June 2001

By Bob Miner

A dry fire hydrant is simply a standpipe arrangement of steel or plastic tubing piping, with fire hose fittings. The pipe connects to a static source of water. There is no water pressure within the ‘dry’ pipe. A fire pumper truck must connect to the stand pipe to... for the complete article in Acrobat format...

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What Is It?

Simply put, a dry hydrant is a permanently installed self-draining standpipe system with a hard suction hose connection. The intake end, equipped with a strainer is installed below frost into a body of water. There is no pressure within the system. The pumper truck provides the necessary prime and suction for pumping. One pumper is committed to one dry hydrant and fills arriving tankers.

Bleeder Valve

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Ontario Building Code

3.2.5.7 Water Supply

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