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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Matt_Colie wrote: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
This.
We camped once in a campground on the side of a mountain in West Virginia. The camp well was on top of the mountain and our site was downhill about 500 feet vertically. I didn’t have a gauge to measure it but I did have a pressure regulator so no worries. I did hook up a hose to the spigot and with no nozzle, shot a full-hose stream of water easily 50 feet. Thirty feet of drop translates to fifteen psi, do your own math. (Yes, there were surely camp regulators between levels in the campground, but obviously not enough of them.)
