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How Much Water Have You Saved This Year with Pacific Flow Control?

At Pacific Flow Control, we’re dedicated to helping you save water and protect the environment with our advanced infrastructure services. Ever wondered exactly how many gallons we saved this year using our services like Hot Tapping, Line Stopping, Line Freezing and Valve Insertion?  Well, we were able to calculate it, and you won’t believe the answer! We crunched the numbers,

Line Stops with Bypass: Ensuring Continuous Water Supply During Infrastructure Upgrades

Introduction Water infrastructure plays a crucial role in ensuring communities have access to clean and reliable water. Cities often face the challenge of maintaining and upgrading their pump houses, pressure reducing valve (PRV) stations, or booster stations without disrupting the water supply to residents. Fortunately, there’s a solution that allows for necessary maintenance without disrupting water service – Line Stopping

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

Line Stop for Single Valve Isolation

Double Block & Bleed and Single Valve Isolations with Line Stops

Do you need a double block & bleed or single valve isolations because you have downstream confined space work? Our line stopping, valve insertion and nitrogen line freezing technologies can be used as a secondary block, set up in a double block and bleed arrangement or engineered as single valve isolations. The photo shown is a 230PSI 42″ (1050mm) single

Hot Tapping Stainless Steel Pipe

Hot Tapping Stainless Steel Pipe

Would you like to access or tie in a branch connection to 304 or 316 stainless steel pipe without shutting down? Whether you need hot taps, line stops, or freezing, Pacific Flow Control has the experience you need. Take a look at these 8 – 8×2 304SST/IPT hot taps we completed in Maple Ridge, BC. If you can’t or if

20x12 C303 PCCP Hot Tap

Hot Tapping a 20×12 Connection on AWWA C303 Concrete Pressure Pipe

Why shut down? Pacific Flow Control has been hot tapping Concrete Pressure Pipe (CPP) for over 40 years. Yesterday we completed a 20×12 AWWA C303 wet tap for the City of Calgary on a beautiful piece of bar-wrapped concrete pressure pipe. If you have PCCP (AWWA C301), RCCP (C303) or RCP pipe that you’d like to tap into, give us