Standards for Gas Service (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...as a whole a normal pressure of gas which it proposes to maintain. Gas shall be supplied at a pressure never varying by an amount more than two inches of water pressure above or below the normal pressure thus fixed, as measured at the outlet of the utility's service pipe to any customer: Provided, however, That the maximum pressure on any day at any service outlet shall never be greater than twice the minimum pressure on that day at that outlet. The normal pressures thus fixed by each utility and any proposed changes in these normal pressures shall be reported to the commission and shall be approved by the commission before going into effect. (b) Any utility supplying natural gas shall not be deemed to have violated the preceding paragraph of this rule if it can be shown to the satisfaction of the commission that variations in gas pressure occurring are due to extraordinary demand in extreme weather or to inadequacy of supply which is clearly beyond the control of the utility. (c) Each gas utility shall maintain on its distributing system at least one recording gas-pressure gage for each district fixed under the provisions of this rule, and no utility shall maintain less than two such recordingpressure gages. First Alternate Form for Paragraph (a) of Rule 5. Pressure of Gas."--(a) The pressure of gas supplied by any utility, as measured at the outlet of the utility's service pipe to any customer, shall never be less than two inches nor more than inches of water pressure, except as the commission may give permission for the maintenance of some higher pressure. And the daily variation in the pressure of gas at any such service outlet shall never exceed the following amounts, viz: During the period of one year 11 The two alternate forms for the first para...