140 PSI Water Pressure
If you have plans to stay at the AF Academy Famcamp in Colorado Springs CO, be forewarned they have *very* high water pressure. At 140 PSI it's high enough to seriously damage some RV's. They advise ...
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Edd505 wrote:
Who sets water pressure that high, never seen it. Did you gauge the pressure your self with a reliable gauge.
Edd,
Nobody "sets" a water pressure that high. It is a result of the local terrain as city water system. The storage tank is up a mountain somewhere because the land was cheap and it was a convenient place to locate it. The city has to pump the water up there to make it available.
Nobody with any sense is going to pay money to pump the water mains to that pressure. If it does get pumped to that pressure, someone should be replaced.
Matt
