What is a Valve Maintenance Program?

No one likes being called in the middle of the night to the scene of a broken waterline. What’s even more frustrating is trying to locate the valve that controls the flow, only to discover it doesn’t work.Nights like that are best forgotten and one reason why the Consolidated Utility District of Rutherford County, Tenn., set out to establish a valve maintenance program. Now four years later, the crew at CUDRC sleeps better, knowing that if a problem does arise, it can instantly pinpoint the source and be confident that each one of its 18,000 valves will perform as intended,