Backflow Preventer Testing in Plano Texas
If you are a contractor needing fast backflow certification, then you have come to the right place.
We specialize in rapid response backflow testing in Plano – Repairs – Tests – Customer Service Inspections. In most cases same day or next day service is available.
Our technicians are very professional, and you are welcome to witness any test. The technicians use top grade test equipment which is calibrated yearly for accurate results. We hold a local inventory of common repair parts, so any repairs can be completed quickly.
Device Test Results – after completing our tests we leave a copy of the results on the device for new installations as well as sending it to the appropriate authority. Our annual commercial customers will be mailed a copy on request.
Call us today to schedule testing, repairs, or replacement.
Many commercial properties in Plano Texas are required by City Ordinance to perform annual certifications. In the City of Plano, the following items need back flow protection, mostly in commercial premises, specifically by a Reduced Pressure Backflow Assembly, sometimes abbreviated R.P.Z.:
Auxiliary water supply mainline & isolation, main supply line for buildings 3 or more stories in height, a green house or nursery which uses with toxic chemicals, a building containing a reclaimed water system, plating or chemical plants, carbonated drink dispensers, photography equipment, car washes, food and beverage processing plants, boilers and chillers for space heating, funeral homes and mortuaries, sewage lift stations and sewage treatment plants.
Prior to performing any testing of backflow prevention assemblies within the City of Plano, a licensed backflow prevention assembly technician must be registered with the City of Plano Utility Operations Department. A City of Plano Backflow Prevention Assembly Test Report form shall be completed by a Plano backflow prevention assembly tester on each backflow prevention assembly tested. Each completed original form, together with the records of such tests, repairs, or replacement, shall be received by the Utility Operations Department of the City of Plano within ten (10) calendar days after the testing, repair, replacement or work performed upstream of the assembly.
According to the City Ordinance for Cross-Connection Control and Backflow Prevention
the Cross Connection Control Program with appendices and to be read in its entirety
as follows:
“DIVISION 1.5. CROSS CONNECTION CONTROL PROGRAM
Sec. 21-22. Purpose; scope.
There is hereby established a Cross Connection Control Program the purpose of
which is to promote the public health, safety, and welfare by regulations designed to:
(a) Protect the public potable water supply of the City of Plano from the
possibility of contamination or pollution by isolating within a customer’s internal
distribution systems or a customer’s private water systems contaminants or pollutants
that could backflow into the public water system;
(b) Promote the elimination or control of existing cross connections, whether
actual or potential, between a customer’s in-plant potable water systems and nonpotable
water system(s), plumbing fixtures, and industrial piping system(s);
(c) Provide for the maintenance of a continuing program of cross connection
control which will systematically and effectively prevent the contamination or pollution of
the City’s potable water system; and
(d) Establish requirements for Plano Backflow Prevention Assembly Testers.
(e) Comply with Chapter 290, Water Hygiene, of the Texas Commission on
Environmental Quality Rules and Regulations for Public Water Systems.
City of Plano Exceeds Water Conservation Goal
We service the following Plano, Tx zipcodes:
75023, 75025, 75074, 75086, 75094, 75024, 75026, 75075, 75093