Click here to enlarge image"Sometimes we'd pick up too much water, sometimes not enough," said Steve Notch, senior maintenance mechanic for Santa Margarita Water District. "We were breaking 100 pounds of pressure across that valve. In addition to not knowing how much water we were flowing, the valve was cavitating itself to death."
Notch needed a valve that could handle the pressure in the cavitation zone. His first consideration, a ball valve, wouldn't suffice. After successfully testing Singer Valve's Anti-Cavitation Trim for six months at another trouble spot, Notch thought a similar valve could solve the pump station problem.
"Our first Singer valve worked great," Notch said, "so it was natural to look into other applications."
After speaking to Bob Wiltshire, a Singer field representative, Notch discovered he could add features to a Singer valve, just like buying a car and ordering the options.