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Water Distribution Specifications

City of Wheaton Distribution Specifications - As of January 1, 2023

All Materials shall be as specified below or approved equally, be produced in North America, and be the current year model. All brass shall be “No-lead”, meeting the Reduction of Lead in Drinking Water Act Requirements.

Water main

  • Unless approved in writing all water mains shall be 8” minimum size Class 52 Zinc-coated Ductile Iron pipe.
  • If a PVC water main is allowed, it must be approved in writing and shall be Certa-Lok PVC or equal. The design shall include two #10 Solid Insulated Copper tracer wires that terminate in a Copperhead Tracer Wire Access Box at each end. Shop drawings of the tracer wires must be submitted and approved for all PVC water mains.

Polyethylene Wrap - Required on all Water Main Installations

  • All ductile iron water main and fittings shall be encased with linear low-density V-Bio Enhanced polyethylene wrap, 8 mils thick. Polyethylene wrap shall be secured with polyethylene tape at overlaps, ends, and every four feet along the pipe barrel.

Fire Hydrants

  • Mueller Super Centurian A-421, 4½ inch valve opening with 6-inch flange x mechanical A-2361 resilient wedge valve attached. All bolts shall be stainless steel on all valves and hydrants.

Gate Valves

  1. Mueller A-2361 resilient wedge gate valve
    OR
  2. American Series 2500 resilient wedge valve.

Mechanical Joints

  • EBAA Iron Megalug mechanical joint restraint gland.
Tapping Valves.
  1. Mueller A-2361 flange x mechanical joint resilient wedge valve
    OR
  2. American Series 2500 flange x mechanical joint resilient wedge valve.

Tapping Sleeves - All Pressure Connections 4” to 8” Shall Be Done By The City Of Wheaton

  1. Smith-Blair 665 stainless steel tapping sleeve with stainless steel flange
    OR
  2. Ford FTSS stainless tapping sleeve with stainless steel flange.

Valve Boxes

  1. Tyler Union 664S screw-type cast iron two-piece valve box.
    Note: Plastic valve boxes or plastic extensions are not allowed.
  2. Valve Box Adaptor II
    1. Type A Gate Valves - 4”-6” Mueller, 4”-6”-8” AFC.
    2. Type B Gate Valves - 8” Mueller, 10”-12” AFC.
    3. Type D Gate Valves - 10” Mueller.
    4. Type E Gate Valves - 12” Mueller, 16” AFC.
  3. Valve box extensions shall be Tyler Union #58, #60 or Tyler Union #69 riser.

End Caps

  1. Class “A” pipe: Tyler Union Mechanical Joint Cap.
  2. Class “B-C-D” pipe: Tyler Union MJ x PE Dual-Purpose Cutting-in Sleeve with Tyler Union Mechanical Joint Cap.

Service Fittings

  1. Corporation Cock
    1. Mueller 300 Ball Corporation Valve B-25000N
      OR
    2. Ford Corporation Stops FB600-size-NL.
  2. Corporation Cock Quarter and Eighth Bends - ¾", 1", 1 ¼”, 1 ½” and 2"
    1. Mueller brass with compression ends and swivel nut. Flare nut, non-swivel accepted on sizes where others aren’t made. Mueller P-15075N, P-15076N
      OR
    2. Ford brass with compression ends and swivel nut. Flare nut, non-swivel accepted on sizes where others aren’t made. Ford LA04-size-NL, L04-size-NL.
  3. Curb Stop
    1. Mueller 300 Ball Curb Valve P-25155N
      OR
    2. Ford Ball Valve Curb Stop B44-sizeM-NL.
  4. Curb Box
    • Mueller H-10300 curb box with Minneapolis Pattern Base.
  5. Service Saddles
    • Smith-Blair Model 317 Epoxy Coated Ductile Iron with double stainless-steel strap.

Abandoned Service Repair Clamps

  1. Ford Meter Box Co. - Style FACC
    OR
  2. Total Piping Solutions, Inc. - Abandoned Corporation Fitting.