The Anamosa Water Department’s three employees exercise all 672 valves in the city’s water system every year, a task that took twice as long before the department got its Hurco Spin Doctor 800 valve exerciser.
There was a time when excavating buried valve boxes and exercising main and water hydrant valves in the city of Anamosa, Iowa, was a laborious, time-consuming chore.
But that all ended about six years ago when the city’s Water Department invested roughly $50,000 in a...
