Cape Breton uses Hydro-Guard HG-8 to improve water qualityIn the Cape Breton Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, an estimated 10 million gallons of treated, chlorinated water flows annually into the Sydney River. Since local lobster trapping grounds are nearby, this activity causes major concern for the Department of the Environment. When the municipality exposed the trench to install a sub-surface, Hydro-Guard HG-8 automated flushing device, a 35-year old Mueller inverted key curb stop used for routing flushed water through 3/4-inch polyethylene tubing to the river was connected to the outlet of the HG-8. Despite the age of the curb stop, it
