Pipe Materials in Calgary Presentation Slide #31

In Baltimore, a couple of American engineers expressed surprise to me at our success with PVC; they had thought that trouble with taps was very common. But as you see, we have less than one PVC problem at services per year when we have 100,000 installed. I'll tell you our secret in three words: training, training, training. This is a real source of pride for Calgary Waterworks, our pipeman training facility. It occupies two large truck bays. The structure in the background was built for it, to allow simulation of the above ground parts of the system.