Castle Rock, Colorado, Adopts Water Demand Calculator® for Residential Water Supply Pipe Sizing

CASTLE ROCK, CO — The Fort Rock, Colorado, city council has accredited the adoption of IAPMO’s Uniform Plumbing Code (UPC®) Appendix M—the Water Demand Calculator®—as a substitute methodology for sizing water pipes in single- and multifamily buildings. The Fort Rock City Code has been amended to require using the Water Demand Calculator for sizing water service traces and inner plumbing provide traces.

A revolutionary software, the Water Demand Calculator precisely predicts peak water demand in single-family properties and condominium buildings, lowering the carbon footprint of the construction and saving shoppers on each their water and water heating-related vitality utility payments for all the lifetime of the plumbing system. On the similar time, correct sizing enormously minimizes the potential risk of bacterial development throughout the system, which might result in such critical well being dangers as Legionnaires’ illness.

Fort Rock

Fort Rock, a group of 85,000 positioned 30 miles south of Denver, has set a purpose of using 100% renewable water sources by 2065 and hopes to attain 75 p.c by 2050. The Water Demand Calculator will contribute to that effort by lowering the quantity of water unintentionally wasted by residents. Using the Water Demand Calculator will scale back the minimal required pipe sizes inside every residence, lowering the potential water age of the water throughout the plumbing system. This may decrease the danger of water high quality points and now have a optimistic impact on water conservation by permitting sizzling water to get to fixtures extra shortly.

“This alteration to City Code will assist our water conservation efforts by proper sizing the water provide aspect plumbing, whereas additionally serving to to guard water high quality, supporting necessities for extra water conserving plumbing fixtures and lowering materials prices for residence building,” stated Matthew Hayes, P.E., Fort Rock Technical Engineering supervisor.

Fort Rock is the primary city in Colorado to undertake Appendix M into its codes and requirements, becoming a member of such main cities as Houston, Seattle, San Jose, and Vancouver, British Columbia, in addition to the states of California, Hawaii, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, Washington, and Wisconsin.

Impactful Innovation

“IAPMO appreciates the imaginative and prescient of the Fort Rock city council and thanks Director of Fort Rock Water Mark Marlowe, Water Effectivity Supervisor Rick Schultz, and Technical Engineering Supervisor Matthew Hayes for his or her advocacy as IAPMO and Fort Rock labored collectively to understand this adoption,” stated IAPMO Vice President of Technical Companies and Analysis Christoph Lohr, P.E.

The Water Demand Calculator represents probably the most impactful innovation in pipe sizing in almost a century. It’s the results of a multiyear effort to develop a brand new statistically primarily based pipe-sizing methodology stemming from a necessity to deal with profound water security and wasted water and vitality issues ensuing from outsized water provide pipes in properties and buildings.

The Water Demand Calculator model 2.2 and consumer information, in addition to associated movies, can be found at https://www.iapmo.org/we-stand/water-demand-calculator/water-demand-calculator-california. For particular details about the Water Demand Calculator or to offer suggestions, please contact Lohr at [email protected].