GF-7 Tanks and Towers (2024-08-15)

This popular manual has been updated and improved to bring it more current with modern earth moving and trenching equipment, refined excavation techniques, stricter safety rules, and improved materials. Here you’ll find how to enter and succeed in the underground utility business. Includes hands-on instructions for operating the equipment and doing the trenching, pipe laying and connecting work and answers to what causes so many skilled equipment operators and pipe layers to fail when they try to start their own business.

This second edition covers state-of-the-art asphalt paving, plant operations, transportation of materials, surface preparation, lay down, compaction, and quality control processes. It is aimed at field personnel who are responsible for these operations—both contractor personnel who do the work and agency personnel who oversee and inspect the work.

The purpose of this standard is to provide guidance to facilitate the design, manufacture, and procurement of welded carbon steel tanks for the storage of water. This standard does not cover all details of design and construction because of the large variety of sizes and shapes of tanks.

This manual provides current information on sound engineering and construction practices with regard to the proper installation of underground liquid storage systems.

This official AWWA Manual of Water Supply Practices is a complete reference on steel water-storage tanks for potable water. M42 is intended to serve as a comprehensive, single-volume, information source for designers, engineers, constructors, owners, and operators of steel water tanks.