Something’s fishy
Despite warnings, a university opted to wait to fix a boiler problem. It was a costly mistake.
The pipes from a university’s steam system run through hundreds of acres of campus and through the heat exchanger in the school’s Olympic-sized swimming pool. The exchanger leaked hard water into the boiler system, overwhelming the chemical treatment process and generating 30 pounds of sludge build up a day. While conducting on-site tests, our Certified Water Technologist detected the problem and advised the client of impending pipe failure. The university failed to act. Eventually, pipes burst in this classic “fish lip” rupture. The school had to re-tube the system and repair the heat exchanger.