BACKFLOW TESTING

• The tester is not currently registered to test backflow devices in the City of Lewisville.
• The tester's registration file contains expired credentials and/or backup documentation, such as
  - State Backflow Prevention Assembly Tester license
  - State Fire Sprinkler Certificate of Registration (if testing fire DCDAs), and/or
  - Gauge calibration test report.
  
  
  

• American Backflow Prevention Association (ABPA)
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• Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ)
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(1)   Protect the public potable water supply of the city from the possibility of contamination or pollution by isolating within the customer's internal distribution system or the customer's private water system such contaminants or pollutants which could backflow into the public water system.


(2)   Protect the public water supply of the city from the possibility of contamination or pollution by isolation of the customer's distribution system, which includes provisions for backflow prevention devices located at the water meter.


(3)   Promote the elimination or control of existing cross connections, actual or potential, between the customer's in-plant potable water system and nonpotable water systems, plumbing fixtures and industrial piping systems.


(4)   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 water system.

The director of public services shall be responsible for the protection of the public potable water distribution system from contaminants or pollutants through the water service connection. If, in the judgement of the director of public services, an approved backflow prevention device is required (at the customer's water service connection or within the customer's private water system) for the safety of the water system, the director of public services shall give notice in writing to such customer to install such approved backflow prevention devices at specific locations on his premises. The customer shall immediately install such approved devices at his own expense; and failure, refusal or inability on the part of the customer to install, have tested and maintain such devices shall constitute a ground for discontinuing water service to the premises until such requirements have been satisfactorily met.

(l)   It shall be the duty of the user at any premises where backflow prevention devices are installed to have certified inspections and operational tests made at least once per year.

(a)   Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this provisions of this article or who shall fail to comply with any provision hereof shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction, shall be subject to a fine not less than $100.00 nor more than $1,000.00, and each day that such violation continues shall constitute a separate offense and such violator shall be punished accordingly.

(b) Any person violating any of the provisions of this article shall become liable to the city for any expense, loss or damage occasioned by the city by reason of such violation.

(c) In addition to the penalties provided herein, the city may recover reasonable attorneys' fees, court costs, court reporters' fees and other expenses of litigation by appropriate suit at law against the person found to have violated this article or the orders, rules, regulations and permits issued hereunder.