We thought we had enough shut off values but I failed to have one for the landscape piping, so when a leak developed at a freeze hydrant, we had to turn the outside water off so we would have water for the inside buildings.
This is a very tight area and was not easy but with marking where I had to cut it, it was a perfect fit.
Digging to find the source of the leak.
Here was the culprit, this was the pipe that connected the PVC to the freeze hydrate. It failed in 3 years!
We tried to use an expanding connection which did not work, it leaked like a sieve.
We went ahead and repaired it just by gluing a regular PVC pipe to connect the pipes together.
We had to completely dislodge the freeze hydrant to do this and it worked!
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