Ok, if it's for fire safety, someone more informed than myself
answer this. When they have to respond to structure fires, will there
be water in the hydrants. I suppose the answer is, depends.
If my neighbors car catches on fire in the garage, there is no water
available, it's windy as hell, and the whole neighborhood goes up,
fire takes off crosscountry......
Aren't they going to be responsible for everything after the initial event?
Someone mentioned generators, I no several folk who need constant
power for medical devices. Others (myself with c-pap) who need power
at least a few hours a day. If a fire starts because you shut my power off,
And a medically necessary generator started it, aren't you liable?
Equipment failure, accident, storm, probably not.
But here , you just decided to throw the switch.
This WILL test the civil laws.
Most municiple water systems are designed with elevated storage tanks and standpipes. For pressure and storage volume. It would be poor planning to design a system on a free ball pump set up.
