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Pins dropped on old fashioned map spot CAUD weakness 2017-01-13 - CAUD, 109 Grant Lane, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener, Columbiamagazine.com(c) . A bit of low tech sleuthing helped GM Lenny Stone pinpoint a priority project needed now, and which may be addressed in coming months. Mr. Stone, above, pointed out where pins had been dropped on a printed Adair County wall map to show where water mains had broken during the past year. For most of the county, he said, the pins look like a shotgun pattern. But in one small area, from the Shepherd Tank to Purdy Separate Baptist Church, it's ground zero, a bullseye where an extraordinary number of pins are concentrated. A further study, he said, revealed that this short, one-third mile stretch is where PVC pipe installed several decades ago, and considered state of the art at the time it was used, later proved to be very brittle. Replacing this section of line, he said, will dramatically reduce water loss for the district. Member David Jones noted this discovery might warrant a big screen Tv, couple with cell phone app which could deliver both a photo of a break and a Google GPS number automatically dropped on a Google map, might be warranted now. Stone said that one of the big area's the Public Service Commission is watching is water loss in a system, with alarms going off when it exceeds 15%. At present, even with the Shepherd-Purdy segment, CAUD's water loss stays below 15%. The photo was taken at the CAUD meeting Thursday, January 12, 2017. - EW Permalink | Comments?

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