first thing is a meter, the second doohicky is a double check valve. Gotta have one to prevent siphoning really nasty things back into the water mains.
I never understood the check valve idea. With the amount of pressure those put out how in the world would anything back flow?
Damn 5 spigots off that thing and ones hot water! Nice, we don’t have that here in NY...
Couplers and adapters are truly a godsend. This comes from my own experience.
That adapter contraption thing probably cost 300 bucks in total.
i wouldn't say 300 from the plumbing tag onwards, maybe $60 and half an hour at home depot mixing and matching fittings and putting the incorrect ones in the wrong boxes
I dunno 1.5” copper fittings like make adapters are $15. Black couplings that size are like $10. Stuff is pricey.
Seeing as the hydrant is an East Jordan Iron Works model and the tag has a 248 area code...this is somewhere in the Detroit area.I have questions...
As has already been pointed out, there is a meter present. Therefore odds are most excellent that the setup is legal. Your assessment of Detroit is about as accurate as us'uns describing Canadians as moose piss swilling penguin fuckers.Guessing it's to let people fill their pools? Though I have also seen this as a temp solution when they're doing construction. But if this is detroit my guess is that it's just people stealing water lol. Nobody even police is going to question it and just let them be or risk getting shot at. Somebody else is probably going to come steal that whole contraption anyway to sell it for scrap metal.
They use this around here for street fairs. All the food vendors need a water hookup so they put a meter on the hydrant and there you go.