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Oct, 14, the Houston County District Attorney’s Office held the drawing for the raffle contest at the Georgia National
Fair. Prizes to be given away included water safety equipment, water toys, a fishing pole and the grand prize, a
swimming pool. The two winners for this year’s contest are Hugh McKinney and Tommy Little. Grand Prize Winner
McKinney, left, of Lizella won the swimming pool and a life vest. Runner Up Tommy Little of Warner Robins won the
fishing pole, a flotation device and an underwater flashlight.
Preparing your pipes from the cold
By Brad Haire
University of Georgia
Freezing temperatures
likely hit Monday. It’s time
to think about properly win
terizing outdoor pipes and
lawn sprinklers. A few pre
cautions now can save a lot
of time, money and head
aches later.
Freezing temperatures
can cause the water in an
exposed pipe to expand. If
the water expands too much,
the pipe bursts.
“With home irrigation sys
tems, you probably wouldn’t
know you had any pipe dam
age until you turned it on
for the first spring water
ing,” said Kerry Harrison,
a University of Georgia
Cooperative Extension irri
gation specialist.
Most in-ground sprinkler
pipes will be OK. Only the
top two inches of the ground
will freeze in most of Georgia.
Pipes should be well below
this level. Other irrigation
components, such as back
flow-prevention valves, are
at ground level, though, and
could be in danger.
If any exposed valves
or pipes are around your
home, tape them up or
“use a good old sack to
wrap them,” Harrison said.
Home- improvement stores
have many tapes, foams
and gadgets to keep these
pipes warm on cold, winter
nights.
The tips of sprinkler heads
can hold water. When frozen,
they can rupture. The whole
sprinkler system holds water,
too, even when it isn’t being
used. Don’t forget to drain
the system, Harrison said. If
you don’t drain it properly
in the winter, your sprinkler
could be a geyser when you
turn it on next spring.
“Arrangements should
have been made in the
installation process to have
a way to drain those lines
that would hold water
through a buried valve in a
pit,” he said. If you bought
a home with an installed
irrigation system, find this
drain valve. Some systems
are equipped with automatic
drain valves.
Don’t forget about outside
water hoses. Just do one of
two things:
■ Leave the hoses hang
ing outside. But disconnect
them from faucets.
■ Disconnect, drain and
store hoses someplace with a
constant temperature. This
will prolong the life of the
hoses.
If you leave hoses und
rained outside in the winter,
don’t move them or touch
them in freezing weather.
Frozen hoses are fragile. You
could be the one to break
them.
DA prize winners
Private water users and
rural residents with wells
should check out their main
water pump. Usually a quar
ter-inch pipe connects to
the pressure switch. If it’s
metal, it likely won’t freeze.
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freeze and burst. This could
cause the water pump to fail
or continue to run and cause
some major winter repairs.
If all these precautions
fail and a pipe bursts any
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