AWWA C561-14 Fabricated Stainless-Steel Slide Gates (PDF)
SKU: 43561-2014-PDF
The purpose of this standard is to provide the minimum requirements for fabricated stainless-steel slide gates, including materials, general design, manufacture, testing, inspection, and shipment.
Description
This standard describes vertically mounted, fabricated stainless-steel slide gates with full-aperture closure, designed for either seating head or unseating head or both, in ordinary water supply and wastewater service. The gates are primarily used to shut off or throttle water or wastewater flow through a rectangular or round orifice, end of channel, or in-channel opening. They may be of either conventional closure or flush-bottom closure type and may open upward or downward.