Chris,
Our city, Sarasot, Florida, has required a backflow preventor for years. And,
yes, the cost is approximately $1,000 and there is a yearly inspection
required. We (Orange Blossom Community Garden) are not required to pay the
inspection fee, but commercial customers are. The cost of the preventor
varies by the capacity of the pipes coming from the meter.
Bill is very "right on" in suggesting that you protect the backflow preventor.
Should thieves decided to strike, you'll be out the cost of the preventor and
the cost of wasted water which could be as much as 10,000 gallons in a couple
of hours or less.
The positive side of the preventor is that you can easily turn the water off to
the whole garden if you ever need to do work on the irrigation.
Make sure that you have an "irrigation only" meter installed. You don't want
to be paying the waste water treatment costs for water that is not going to go
to the treatment plant.
Barbara Powell Harris
Orange Blossom Community Garden
Sarasota, FL
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Price <price...@hotmail.com>
To: minifarms <minifa...@gmail.com>; community_garden
<community_garden@list.communitygarden.org>
Sent: Tue, Oct 5, 2010 2:59 pm
Subject: Re: [Community_garden] $1000 for backflow preventer
y mistake, yes I will try that, we need to save every penny we can. Maybe I
hought it was to good to be true. New to this and thanks for the nudge.
hris
ate: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 13:53:19 -0500
ubject: Re: [Community_garden] $1000 for backflow preventer
rom: minifa...@gmail.com
o: price...@hotmail.com
hris,
our email shocked me. As another person ask, why do you need one. They cost
10 to $25 or the 1 inch is $250.
en H
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