Backflow preventers are necessary. When you turn on the faucet, you expect water that is safe and clean to drink. Professionally designed plumbing and sewage systems provide our businesses and homes with fresh water for drinking and bathing. We depend on pressure to move water through our plumbing pipes. It is this reliance on pressure…
Maintaining your fire suppression systems are vital to ensure that they work properly when a fire occurs. Fire suppression systems often work in conjunction with a fire alarm system to provide safety and protection for a building or area. There are many different types of fire suppression systems which include: Clean agent systems Fire extinguishers Wet…
Backflow is when contaminated water has reversed flow and entered clean water lines. The water supply is kept at a high pressure so that water can easily flow out of any faucet in your business or home. However, the sewage system is not pressurized, it depends on gravity to remove waste from the business or…
Backflow preventer devices are required by law to be installed in most commercial buildings, and some residential buildings whenever there is a chance that a “back flow” of water could be sucked into the clean water system. The size and complexity of the installed backflow preventer will coincide with the specific backflow risks that each situation presents.…
Backflow preventers stop back-siphoning and backpressure from adding contaminated fluids or gases into a potable water supply system. Generally, the selection of the proper device to use is based upon the degree of hazard posed by the cross-connection. Additional considerations are based upon piping size, location, and the potential need to periodically test the devices…
You never know what a terrorist will do, that’s why they are so terrifying. It has been known that they would like to poison our water systems. To combat this possibility, several scenarios have been tested to see how easy or hard it might be to contaminate a water system. One scenario is where a…