Don’t Go Without Backflow!

Installation of a backflow prevention system protects your home or business water supply from contamination and pollution. The pressure at which your water company pumps water from holding tanks through water mains and into your home or business keeps water flowing from the main toward sewage outlets. If a disruption occurs – a water main break, severe flooding, a frozen pipe, unusual demand on the community water system – water pressure plummets and, like a siphon, water starts flowing backwards. The change in pressure can cause contaminated ground water or sewage to be drawn into your home or business plumbing system, contaminating your water supply and placing your family and customers at risk. Each year more than 10,000 cases of backflow contamination are reported in the U.S. Backflow contamination can cause serious illness if people ingest polluted water and, in some cases, has been fatal.

What do the local municipalities think about backflow?

Backflow prevention valves prevent potentially hazardous backflows from occurring, ensuring that your water supply will remain safe and pure in case of an emergency. Backflow devices are complicated pieces of plumbing having test cocks and shut-off valves that must all work properly and in synchronization to be effective in protecting local water supplies. Many county municipalities are now requiring commercial customers to install backflow prevention devices and have them inspected and tested annually. These devices should also be inspected and tested by a certified plumbing professional whenever they are installed, relocated or repaired. Because backflow prevention devices guard the healthy quality of the water supply they protect and are linked to community water supplies, proper installation, maintenance and repair by a qualified  plumbing professional is essential.

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