Did this hydrant thread get resolved? What is the appropriate way to go about requests for fixing? I hear so many stories about dodgy / misaligned / broken / unidentifiable / bituminised plugs, its a wonder we find any water at all for going house fires ![undecided :|](http://www.safirefighter.com/boards/Smileys/default/undecided.gif)
I reported a bunch of defective FPs in our area a few years ago.
SA Water referred me to United Water - said that operation of the network had been
contracted out. United didn't want to accept it at first - said that FPs weren't
included in the contract. This was fairly shortly after SA Water started contracting
out to United, so there were a few little items not sorted.
In the end, United depot up Birdood/Oakbank way took the complaint & fixed most of
the FPs. =Wouldn't= fix any of the ones which required major surgery & shutting off
the trunk main. But we got 16 out of 20 unusable FPs back on-line in just a few weeks.
The other 4 had useable FPs within a hundred metres, and are mostly on blind bends in
the middle of the road.... so we can live with that.
Cheers