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Site 496

System type: ICS system
Installed: 1996
Inspected: 2003

System is not working. ICS collector is fine. Freeze valve is defective.

Freeze valve developed constant leak. Client called local WAP agency that installed the system and were informed to turn the valves above the tank. This occurred 2 years ago.

Unfortunately, the freeze valve is causing many of these systems to be isolated because the client’s claim that they cannot afford to have someone come out and replace it. So, for a $50 part, a $2,000 system is being wasted.