In 1974, Congress passed the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) to protect the public health by regulating the nation's public water supply. Since 1974, the law has been amended in 1986 and 1996 to incorporate needed actions to protect the public's water supply. Under this law, the water purveyor is prohibited from installing or maintaining a water service connection to a consumer's water system within its jurisdiction, unless the public potable water supply is protected against backflow by an approved prevention assembly(s) installed at the service connection or point of delivery.
The SDWA provides the when and where the National Standard Plumbing Code (NSPC) the how. In NJ the NSPC FDC BFP requirement is proposed to be amended back to the 2003 (1700 Ft requirement) from the current 2006 (All requirement) John Drucker -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fletcher, Ron Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 4:31 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Backflow requirement Does anyone know the history of requiring backflow preventers on sprinkler systems? I just attended a meeting at the city of Phoenix regarding their backflow requirement. The discussion turned to where does/did the backflow requirement come from and is there an EPA, Health Dept. or Federal mandate to install them? The water departments answer was "because it's in the plumbing code". Ron Fletcher Aero Automatic Sprinkler Phoenix, AZ _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list http://lists.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum For Technical Assistance, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field) _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list http://lists.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum For Technical Assistance, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field)
