On June 2nd, around 50 folks from Riverton and the surrounding Litchfield County, Connecticut area participated in a 2-hour rural water supply drill. The drill culminated our 16-hr Rural Water Supply Operations Seminar that was sponsored by the Winsted Area Chiefs and hosted by the Riverton VFD. All of Saturday day and Sunday morning were spent reviewing the best practices of hauling water with tankers. Sunday afternoon the participants got to try their hand at building out a large-scale water supply operation using three pumpers and nine tankers. Over the course of the 2-hour drill the folks used two fill sites and a four-dump tank operation to develop a peak flow of 1600 gpm. Because the crews never ran out of water and were able to flow in excess of 1000 gpm during the last hour of the drill they were awarded membership in our exclusive 1000 GPM Club! Congratulations! Many thanks to Chief Norman Bird and the members of the Riverton VFD for the outstanding logistical support. Instructors for the weekend were Mark Davis and Tim Legore. |
Units: |
Riverton Engine 4 (2000 gpm/1000 gal) Riverton Tanker 34 (500 gpm/3000 gal), Winsted Engine 14 (1500 gpm/1000 gal), Pleasant Valley Engine 6 (2000 gpm/1000 gal), Norfolk Tanker 100 (500 gpm/3000 gal), Barkhamsted East Tanker 2 (1250 gpm/3000 gal), West Hartland Tanker 33 (500 gpm/3000 gal), Colebrook Tanker 31 (4000 gal), East Hartland Tanker 3 (500 gpm/1900 gal), Winchester Center Tanker 1 (1500 gpm/3000 gal), and Tolland Tanker 1 (750 gpm/3000 gal) |