C501-80: AWWA Standard for Cast-Iron Sluice Gates (PDF)

This standard covers wall-thimble vertically mounted sluice gates designed for either seating head or unseating head, or both, in ordinary water supply or wastewater service. The sluice gates may be used for square, rectangular, or round openings. They may be of the conventional closure or the flush bottom closure type. This standard also covers sluice gate activating mechanisms of the manual, electric motor, and hydraulic cylinder types, together with standard accessories. Included are sections on the following: references, data furnished by the bidder and data furnished by the manufacturer, affidavit of compliance, materials, their physical and chemical properties, tests; the general design of frames, slides, seating faces, seals, guides, yoke, thrust nut, wedging devices, assembly bolts, studs, nuts, and anchor bolts, wall-thimbles, stem and stem couplings, stem guides, painting, manual lifting devices, electric lifting devices, hydraulic cylinder lifting devices; workmanship and shop testing; installation, hole protection, surface protection, thimble, slide, switch setting, lift mechanism storage, cylinder; inspection, shipment and field leakage test. The appendix contains information on force required to activate sluice gate.