Backfow Prevention Menu
The Environmental division of the Utilities department administers
the Cross Connection Program. This program includes all new
backflow installation inspections, plans review, site surveys,
hydrant meter backflow prevention, record keeping, and annual
test notification of all backflow prevention devices in the City
of Peoria.
It is the City of Peoria’s priority to provide safe drinking water
to its customers and execute a program of cross connection control
which will minimize potential sources of cross connection by
installing an approved backflow prevention device where all
potential hazards of cross connection may exist between the
consumer’s and the public water’s supply. As stated in Arizona
Administrative Code R-18-4-115 “A public water system shall protect
its system from contamination caused by backflow through unprotected
cross-connections by requiring the installation and periodic testing
of backflow prevention assemblies.”
City of Peoria,
Code Chapter 5 contains regulations and references for the
Backflow Prevention and Cross Connection Control Programs. This
Includes when a backflow assembly is required, annual testing and
maintenance, violations, fines and the appeal process.
Without protective devices and assemblies (referred to as backflow
prevention assemblies); the potable water supply can become
contaminated by any customer in the system. A Cross Connection
Control Program is required by the Arizona State Department of
Environmental Quality and the United States Environmental Protection
Agency (through the Safe Drinking Water Act) to protect the public
water system from contaminated water. This program calls for
facility inspections to identify and eliminate cross connections as
well as annual testing of backflow prevention assemblies.
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