During the past nine months, a subcommittee of the NAWT Education Committee has been working on a proposed Hydraulic Load Test Standard Procedure for point-of-sale real estate inspections. This is the first of several national issues the NAWT Education Committee would like to tackle – providing draft standards to promote discussion and hopefully consensus – that results in a nationally accepted procedure. The subcommittee consisted of Bruce Fox from Pennsylvania, Kit Rosefield from California and Robert Wright from Colorado. In addition, they collected input from other inspectors.There are two major reasons to conduct a hydraulic load test as a part
