Changes to a plant’s water system leads to a flash fire (MOC and State Plumbing Code)

A lot of older plants in the USA use their water piping as their main ground for a lot of purposes.  In one such plant, the grounding connections for the flammable liquid transfers were tied into the water piping.  One day a water pipe failed and caused quite a bit of damage; the price to replace the pipe compared to the property and goods damage it caused.  In order to make the repair in a “more timely and cost-effective” manner.  So a large section of the plant’s water system was repaired using PVC piping rather than the previous “copper” piping.  Would you do a MOC on changing the water (potable, non-potable, process, condensate, etc.) piping from a conductive metal to an insulator like PVC?

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