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mak123

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I have a small store and the water pressure is normally 40psi, my question is is this city water supply pressure suppose to sustain 40psi continulously?
or it could be fructulated depending on water usage?
IOW, water supply city line's pressure is 40psi, then this 40psi should be same all the time? or it can be lower pressure when people use water?
 

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The pressure is likely to fluctuate. 40 is fairly low. Make sure you don't have a pressure reduction valve that is dropping it from the street pressure. It is often higher at night, and drops when demand peaks.
 

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city pressure measured in frire-hydrant is 52psi, but entrance point in the building 2inch pipe, the pressure is 40psi, there is 2inch underground copper pipe runs between outside city main(16inch) and 2inch meter in the building.
12pound pressure loss is normal? undergound pipe maybe damaged and cause this problem? pressurre functuates too much range from 5psi to 40psi inside building, is this abnormal, right?
 

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While I don't know about your area in my area I am under the impression that the water company is only requires to maintain a minimum pressure of 25 PSI...anything above that is a courtesy...
 

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The city will do their best to provide a usable water supply to you. If budgets are tight, they may have allowed over-building without adding infrastructure improvements....meaning that the aging water supply system will struggle, and pressure will quite possibly fluctuate, particularly during the hours of highest and lowest demand.
 

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The pressure will fluctuate depending on total usage in the area, the size of the city's supply lines, and the distance from the city pumping station. HOWEVER, unless you have an unusual demand situation, a 2" line should almost always be the same pressure as the city main, and that would seldom drop to 5 psi. You may have some unique problem that only a plumber at the building could diagnose.
 

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the city water folks came and told me the old abandoned city meter located in man-hole could cause this restirction problem, so he will schedule to take it out, this work can be done night and need time to schedule, so until we will take it out, still we don't know yet...

but have you ever seen the old meter could cause problem?
what is inside city meter? some kind of screen?
do you think this old meter is problem?
 

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my problem is as I said, lower water prssure and not enough water supply.
 

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my problem is as I said, lower water prssure and not enough water supply.

The good news from my perspective is the city will check the pressure after they remove the old meter so it you're still getting the 5 psi drop they will probably troubleshoot it while the hole is open.
 
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