Hey guys.
Hope you're well.
Hope you're all having a good day.
Just out on a jobsite today in Drysdale
and I thought I'd show you this one because it's probably a good one
to show you as an example of what water pipes are doing.
So, let me show you the scene.
Just to give you an idea.
So, there's a water main that comes down the street,
comes down the street
comes over and the water main stops at this fire hydrant.
It doesn't go any further down there.
There's all houses in there still,
farm lots and so forth
but doesn't go any further that way.
The water main stops there.
Over here you'll see there's two water meters.
You've got one big one there and a smaller one over there.
What they are, those water meters there are actually private water lines.
So there's actually private mains that go down to feed the farms and so forth.
Actually a few houses and so forth that have all paid the money and installed their own
private water pipe.
They are not on any Dial Before You Dig plans.
The only reason we know they are in the area is because
well, the locals have told us it's here
and they're planning a new major road through here
and they've been told that there's a water main here
but they don’t a private water main here but they don't know where it is.
So that's one thing I wanted to show you
that even though you get Dial Before You Dig plans
there are still sometimes pipes in the area that aren't on Dial Before You Dig plans
and it's only because it's a private line.
Let me show you the actual pipe itself though.
It's a good one to show you.
So, again, we've got two separate feeds,
two separate water pipes that are heading down that way.
This one here when they've put it in they've put a trace wire with it.
So that what that means, so it's a poly pipe, it's a plastic pipe.
Because they've put the trace wire in it
so that's the trace wire there, it's, see that.
Because they've put the trace wire in we've been able to hook onto the trace wire and
locate it.
So you'll see it's 800 deep there
700 deep there
1.1, it goes across the road
and then heads down that way there.
And we've dug down over there and confirmed exact depth of it
so we can see exactly how deep it is.
Because that's what we're doing today is trying to confirm how deep all these pipes are.
The next one over here.
So, that one there, no trace wire.
Nothing with it.
You got, so what we've done, we've dug down to see where it's actually going.
First, tried digging down there but we couldn't see where it was going.
We couldn't find it I should say.
So, we've dug down here to confirm what's going on.
This one on this side, now here's something else to show you.
A lot of times
A lot of times we'll go out to a job site and try to find a water pipe
and we can't find it because it's plastic, it's a plastic pipe
we'll say to the owner "I'm sorry, we can't find your water pipe, because it's plastic"
So we've hooked a locator onto it and we can't get a signal on it
so we've got to use ground penetrating radar or acoustic locating something else
to try to find it.
And the owner says "No, it's gal or it's copper, I can see at the meter it's a gal or copper pipe"
And what we try to explain is at the top
it’s metal at the top of the pipe at the top of the meter
but as it goes down underground it then turns into poly
and here is an example of one that does that.
So your water meter
copper pipe
copper pipe on that side
on that side.
Then down here I'll see if can get the camera in the right angle to show you.
So, it goes down and then just in there,
I'll try and zoom in for you.
Right there it turns to poly.
So there's a join in there and you'll see in that side there it's a poly pipe.
So again, just underneath there, where is it.
Let me try to get in there.
Just there you'll see a poly pipe and goes, gets joined there and then comes up to copper.
So yeah. So they need to have the copper at the top to hold the pipe
to hold the meter in place.
But when it gets to underground the 90 degree bend is where they join it to poly.
So, okay, so that one there as you'll see, as you saw was poly
but what I've found.
So we want to see how it's going to the main
and where the pipe will actually go in.
So we've followed that one there
and we've followed the one next to it.
So you'll see the one next to it is poly the whole way.
Poly pipe.
And then up the top, see the one.
Let me see if I can get in there.
There we go.
See the top one there.
So, there's two pipes.
So the top one is the one going to the main.
That is your water main down the bottom.
See the white pipe.
That's your water main.
And the one next to it is the one going out to the customers.
In here, so there's a feral in there or a tapping in I guess they call it.
That's where they turn the tap, stop tap, that's where they turn the tap
that's where they turn the water off for the water meter.
So if they want to turn the water off say you want to turn the water off at the meter.
You can't turn it off there; you want to turn it off at the main
this is where you screw down and turn it off.
And the other one.
So then the other pipe, then what we've got to do
is then we need to work out
okay, where's this other water pipe going?
Where does it actually go to.
And you'll see,
so we've
So we've traced it out, see the pipe at the bottom there.
Alright and then you'll see the pipe going down
going down
and it actually goes across the road like the other one did.
So they're both going across the road.
So that one there it goes across the road
just like that other one did where we've marked.
So you'll see the blue mark there and that's going across the road also.
So what we've then done is gone and dug on the other side of the road
and exposed them both there.
We can see exactly how deep they all are.
So yeah, I thought it would be a good one to show you
so you get a better idea on private water services
and what plastic pipes look like
compared to copper
and how it all works.
Alright guys, I hope that makes sense
and I hope it helps you out.
Take care.
Bye.