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SECTION 4.3 TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION FOR ELECTRICAL CONTINUITY TESTING OF WATER MAINS PART 1 GENERAL 1.1 Scope of Work Work performed under this specification shall consist of providing all supervision, labor, equipment and materials as well as providing all operations necessary to perform electrical continuity testing of water mains as shown on the drawing and specified herein. 1.2 Purpose and Schedule of Testing: The purpose of the electrical continuity testing is to verify and document effective electrical conductance. Part 2: Quality Assurance Reference Standards Unless otherwise stated, the latest editions of the following documents are applicable for this specification: AWWA M9 Manual - Concrete Pressure Pipe NEC 70 National Electrical Code NACE SP-0169 Recommended Practice, Control of External Corrosion on Underground or Submerged Metallic Piping Systems UL 467 Bonding and Grounding Equipment UL 486A Wire Connectors and Soldering Lugs for Use with Copper Conductors 2.2 Requirements The testing company, or agency, proposed by the Contractor must be a firm regularly engaged in the field of corrosion control testing. The employees assigned to the project are to be personnel familiar with corrosion control electrical testing procedures, electrical instrumentation and general electrical networks. Personnel must be capable of modifying procedures to suit actual field conditions should such modifications become necessary. The number of readings taken to determine an electrical constant or property must be sufficient to assure that random factors due to human error in reading the instruments and transient disturbances in the electrical network have negligible influence on the final results. The adequacy of the data can generally be established by the tester and is subject to review and approval by Owner. Testing results shall be provided confirming all electrical discontinuities have been located and repaired. All continuity