TangoWhiskey
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I am trying to identify the following valve in my yard. I'll explain where it is and show pictures, then get on to the reason I want to know what it is.
From our house, going out to the street, it's YARD - SIDEWALK - STRIP OF GRASS - CURB/STREET. In the "STRIP OF GRASS", at the CURB/STREET side, there is a concrete box with a steel lid on it. Inside that box is a round-dial water meter; I see the city come and read it for water readings.
Between that box and the SIDEWALK, there is another box, a plastic one with a green lid marked CONTROL VALVE with a company name of AMETEK from Sheyboygan, WI. This box is directly next to the water meter box, and sits between my house and the water meter.
However, I'm not sure it's control valves for water. It might be. Can you tell by looking at the pictures?
I don't know where my main water shutoff valve is to the house; I don't think it's these, as these run parallel to the sidewalk, not "to my house". The two yellow shutoff valves on either side of that green contraption in the middle are marked "Apollo"; however, as you can see they are so rusted I can't move them--they need to be replaced, but I need to know what I'm dealing with first, and if it's a utility company's issue or mine.
There is a white PVC flex pipe below it, running parallel to the main pipe, which also seems to be PVC going out of the box, with metal fittings to connect this green thing. The large nut on top appears to be some sort of cleanout fitting, but I can't tell what purpose the four little protuberances (towards the street side) serve, and I don't see anything below this valve (i.e., coming up from underneath or tee-ing off from it.)
Now, as to why I'm looking at this thing! I have several sprinkler system valves that aren't closing all the way, that need to be rebuilt or replaced (getting head drainage from the last head in the zone, even when the system is off for days at a time--and if I cap that low valve, the drainage problem moves to the next head in the zone). I'm trying to locate all of the valves, but I have a non-traditional (installed 89 or so) system--i.e., there isn't a master valve manifold anywhere alongside the house, or a master water shutoff valve, at least that I've been able to find.
I'm wondering if this valve might be it? I do have sprinkler heads in the sidewalk strip of grass...
I'm trying to use this device, which a pilot friend of mine had great success with to find his buried/hidden valves, but you really do need to have the water supply turned OFF before using it, else you can't hear the valves buzz over all the water noise.
http://www.reedsirrigation.com/buzzbee.htm
From our house, going out to the street, it's YARD - SIDEWALK - STRIP OF GRASS - CURB/STREET. In the "STRIP OF GRASS", at the CURB/STREET side, there is a concrete box with a steel lid on it. Inside that box is a round-dial water meter; I see the city come and read it for water readings.
Between that box and the SIDEWALK, there is another box, a plastic one with a green lid marked CONTROL VALVE with a company name of AMETEK from Sheyboygan, WI. This box is directly next to the water meter box, and sits between my house and the water meter.
However, I'm not sure it's control valves for water. It might be. Can you tell by looking at the pictures?
I don't know where my main water shutoff valve is to the house; I don't think it's these, as these run parallel to the sidewalk, not "to my house". The two yellow shutoff valves on either side of that green contraption in the middle are marked "Apollo"; however, as you can see they are so rusted I can't move them--they need to be replaced, but I need to know what I'm dealing with first, and if it's a utility company's issue or mine.
There is a white PVC flex pipe below it, running parallel to the main pipe, which also seems to be PVC going out of the box, with metal fittings to connect this green thing. The large nut on top appears to be some sort of cleanout fitting, but I can't tell what purpose the four little protuberances (towards the street side) serve, and I don't see anything below this valve (i.e., coming up from underneath or tee-ing off from it.)
Now, as to why I'm looking at this thing! I have several sprinkler system valves that aren't closing all the way, that need to be rebuilt or replaced (getting head drainage from the last head in the zone, even when the system is off for days at a time--and if I cap that low valve, the drainage problem moves to the next head in the zone). I'm trying to locate all of the valves, but I have a non-traditional (installed 89 or so) system--i.e., there isn't a master valve manifold anywhere alongside the house, or a master water shutoff valve, at least that I've been able to find.
I'm wondering if this valve might be it? I do have sprinkler heads in the sidewalk strip of grass...
I'm trying to use this device, which a pilot friend of mine had great success with to find his buried/hidden valves, but you really do need to have the water supply turned OFF before using it, else you can't hear the valves buzz over all the water noise.
http://www.reedsirrigation.com/buzzbee.htm
