BACKFLOW INFORMATION:
Press Release January 28, 2003
BPW UPDATES CUSTOMERS
ON WATER BACK FLOW PREVENTION
The Board
of Public Works (BPW) is in the process of sending letters to its customers who are
overdue in having backflow prevention devices tested. State law and the Auburn
Municipal Code require all reduced pressure principle and double check valve devices to be
tested at least once per year and the results reported to BPW. State law requires
BPW to maintain the test records for five years. There are no residential customers
involved except for some apartment buildings.
Some customers routinely have their devices tested every year.
BPW would like to take this opportunity to thank those customers. BPW would
like to ask all customers that have these devices to get them on an annual schedule for
testing and report the results to us if they aren’t already doing this.
American Lawn Care and Bohl Plumbing and Heating are local businesses with
employees having the required certification.
State law requires your BPW to maintain a
continuing, on-going, effective backflow prevention program. As part of this
program, all restaurants were inspected last year and told of any required changes.
Compliance letters will soon be sent to the restaurants.
Backflow occurs when something connected to
the water system in a home or business is sucked or pushed into the water system.
This could happen during low pressure and contaminate the water system on your
premises or all of Auburn’s water. We can all help keep Auburn’s water
safe by working together to prevent backflow.