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Fall Hydrant Inspections

Fall Hydrant Inspections in Western Canada

Hydrant time! Pacific Flow Control crews are out, performing hydrant repairs and maintenance as well as fall inspections and hydrant flow testing before the snow starts to fly.Pacific Flow Control maintains, repairs, paints, inspects, and tests over 4000 fire hydrants annually. If you need work or inspections performed on your Clow, Mueller, McAvity, Terminal City (TC) or AVK hydrants. Pacific

Hot Tapping AWWA C301L Pipe

PCCP Hot Taps – 30×8 AWWA C301L

Pacific Flow Control crews finished a 30×8 AWWA C301L Hot Tap in Okanagan. You know who to call if you need to wet tap your aging C301 or C303 concrete cylinder pipe (PCCP). We have 24-hour service available at our Nanaimo (Vancouver Island), Kelowna (Interior BC), Langley (Metro Vancouver) and Calgary (Alberta/Saskatchewan). Let Pacific Flow Control take care of all

Hot Tapping & Line Stopping Asbestos Cement Pipe

Hot Tapping & Line Stopping 36″ (900MM) AC Pipe

Hot Tapping & Line Stopping 36″ (900MM) AC PipeYou don’t often see 36″ (900mm) Asbestos Cement water main, but Medicine Hat, Alberta, has some. The safest, easiest and most cost-effective way to make a new connection to an existing AC water main is with a hot tap. Hot tapping (wet tapping) is a fully self-contained and water-submerged method of making

Dry Tapping

Dry Tapping = Short Lead Times and Economic Pipe Fittings

With much shorter lead times (3-4 weeks) and a more affordable price tag. You can dry tap in fittings with standard and engineered hot tapping sleeves. Hot tap sleeves are available in tangental, angled, or standard 90-degree orientation. With design pressures up to 350 PSI, these hot tap sleeves are available in epoxy coated carbon steel, 304SST or 316SST and

Mission BC Linestop

Line Stopping Options

Line stopping is one of the many services we offer, and it can be completed on a wide range of pipe diameters and pipe types including ductile, AC, Concrete Cylinder, Steel, C900 and HDPE. Some of the many benefits of line plugging include little to no disruption of service, which itself has multiple benefits to the surrounding community. There are

Pacific Flow Control Acquires Alta-West Hydrant & Hottapping

Pacific Flow Control Acquires Alta-West Hydrant & Hottapping

After 30+ years of working together and collaborating, Pacific Flow Control has acquired Alta-West Hydrant and Hot Tapping Services.Pacific Flow Control will offer existing Alta-West clients the same hot tapping, valve insertion, hydrant maintenance and repair services they are used to.Pacific Flow Control also offers engineered and large diameter hot taps, line stops, nitrogen line freezing and machine valve exercising.Our

Benefits of Nitrogen Line Freezing

Did you know that isolation via nitrogen freezing has been in use for over 100 years? It’s a great alternative to line stopping in commercial and industrial areas with limited access and is an ideal solution for small diameter size-on-size valve installation. Line freezing can also be useful for valve maintenance, repair, or replacement on both vertical and horizonal planes.