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Maintaining hydrants and infrastructure to bolster the flow in Nevada City

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Testing and exercising the fire hydrants in Nevada City on a regular basis was put on hold during the drought in recent years, according to Bryan McAlister, Nevada City Engineer.

“We weren’t doing pressure tests on a regular basis because of water drought related water concerns; we stopped doing that,” McAlister said. “It’s actually more common in many cities to do modeling instead of flow tests. So we do have a model that we just did last year.”

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