{"id":419783,"date":"2026-08-29T01:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T01:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/419783\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T01:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T01:54:11","slug":"humble-city-council-amends-fire-code-to-update-water-main-piping-requirements-lake-houston-humble-kingwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/419783\/","title":{"rendered":"Humble City Council amends fire code to update water main piping requirements | Lake Houston &#8211; Humble &#8211; Kingwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityofhumbletx.gov\/city-council\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Humble City Council<\/a> members approved an ordinance regulating the type of pipe required to be used for all private fire service water mains throughout the city.<\/p>\n<p>The details<\/p>\n<p>Council members approved the measure during the Aug. 27 meeting.<\/p>\n<p>City Manager Jason Stuebe said the ordinance will require the use of AWWA C900 DR-14 piping in all private fire service mains, which he said will standardize the size of piping used throughout the city.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis comes with the recommendation of the fire marshal &#8230; [and is] widely accepted across the nation,\u201d Stuebe said.<\/p>\n<p>A closer look<\/p>\n<p>In an Aug. 12 letter, Humble Chief Fire Marshal James Nykaza said the measure was needed to ensure proper water supply and safety to the private water main systems within the city.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith this amendment, we will have standardized pipe construction and dimensions,\u201d Nykaza said in the letter. \u201cAlso, the higher-pressure rating of the [required pipe] will account for the surge pressures generated when hydrants are opened and rapidly closed during fire suppression operations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s next<\/p>\n<p>Moving forward, individuals responsible for the construction of any new private fire service water mains who fail to adhere to the new standard will be subject to a daily fine of up to $2,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Humble City Council members approved an ordinance regulating the type of pipe required to be used for all&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,17040,146206,146205,17042],"class_list":["post-419783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-humble-city-council","tag-humble-fire-code","tag-james-nykaza","tag-jason-stuebe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}