The water distribution crew at the Consolidated Utility District of Rutherford County, Tenn., is starting to sleep a little easier these nights.That’s because they’ve launched a comprehensive maintenance program to locate, identify, clean, and exercise over 16,000 valves along the district’s 1,300 miles of water mains, and fix those in need of repair. It’s a planned, proactive program.“We want to get to a point where we don’t have to send three people out in the middle of the night to find a valve and try to open or close it,” says Jennifer Wood, engineer-in-training with the district who is helping
