How often are the fire hydrants checked in the town of Cornelius?
Cornelius-Lemley Fire-Rescue has a program in place to check each hydrant once a year and perform light maintenance. Light maintenance consist of removing all of the caps, oiling the threads, and making sure water will flow from the hydrant. The Cornelius-Lemley Fire Department also divides the district into fire demand zones. There are fourteen of these fire demand zones in the town. Hydrants are assigned to a fire demand zone and flow tested on a three year basis. Four demand zones are tested in group A, Five in group B, and four in group C (Interstate 77 has its own FDZ which has no hydrants). These flow test insure that all hydrants have suffcient water pressure to use for fire suppression. If any problems are found with hydrants Cornelius-Lemley Fire Rescue reports the problems to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Utility Department or the owner of a hydrant if it is private. Major problems are checked again two months after being reported to insure the hydrant has been fixed.
