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Redding Fire Department looks to install dry hydrant on town owned property

The Redding Fire Department is looking to have a dry hydrant installed on town owned property.

Dave Hermenze of the Redding Fire Department reviewed the proposal with the Board of Selectmen recently to install a dry hydrant at Lonetown Marsh Pond for faster, safer and more reliable operations. The 7.39- acre parcel, across from Redding Elementary School, is estimated to be able to provide 1 million gallons of water.

It has been used as a drafting site since at least the 1940s. There's a reinforced surface to pull up a fire pumper and access to the pond through the bushes.  Firefighters have to extend suction hose into the water, hook it up to the pumper and a vacuum is created to get the water onto the apparatus.

A dry hydrant is a pressurized pipe that extends underground into a water source.  The only ones in Redding are in the Georgetown section of town.  The installation has a pipe sticking up out of the ground, empty of water.  The hose can then be hooked up to the dry hydrant, rather than going directly to the pond.

The Board provided a positive response to the proposal that will move on to the Conservation Commission.

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Brian Kilmeade

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