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Penn Valley Improving Poor Hydrant Pressures

Posted: Sep. 4, 2015 4:00 PM PDT

The Penn Valley Fire District is in great need of increasing its hydrant pressure. But a major upgrade project is scheduled to begin next year, or possibly in 2017. It will improve pressure for all 30 of the district’s hydrants over a several-year period, funded by the Nevada Irrigation District. Fire District Captain John Pitts says it’s greatly needed…

click to listen to Captain Pitts

Pitts says the vast majority of Penn Valley hydrants don’t meet NID’s standard of a-thousand gallons per minute…

click to listen to Captain Pitts

The project will eventually lay over 10-thousand feet of new pipe.

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