Actually the requirement for Back Flow protection started with the "Safe Drinking Water act of 1974" That was followed by the National Primary drinking water regulations of the United States Code (USC) as stated Purpose in USC 300g-1, section 1412, and other sections of the USC. It was then adopted by state governments, here in Colorado as the "Colorado Primary Drinking Water Regulations" adopted Nov.18, 1998. This law in our state requires all water Purveyors (We have over 2000.) "To Protect the water supply from all contamination" There is no Uniform requirement in CO for the IPC or UPC to be adopted or that any specific year has to be adopted. State Plumbing Lic. Requirements are IPC, but many others, home owners, excavation contractors fire sprinkler contractors utility contractors cities and muni's, oh yeah well drillers and ag irrigation specialists are all allowed to tie into the water system, aquifer or supply.
So the Plumbing code is far from the primary driver here. 1) Fed Gov. 2) State Gov. 3) Local Gov. 4) Water Purveyor 5) Installer Some places may think that the Plumbing code is the basic guide, but every time you see a track hoe laying new water main, ask yourself, "How many Plumbers do you think work for that company?" Oh yeah AWWA gets in there with M14 Manual on cross connection. ASSE with the cross connection standards (1015 for DC for fire) or (1047 & 1048 RPZ) for fire and then there are the ANSI standards, UL FM IAPMO OSHA USEPA and USCFCCHR (The Foundation) Then of course for those of you working for the military, the UFC and (in consideration of foreign gov. standards) So Alphabet soup! One stop will not answer all questions, and could leave you very short of what is required. Subject: Re: Pumps & RPZ's All requirements for anti-backflow protection start with the plumbing code. Who administers and enforces that code or portion thereof is up to local legislation but typically the plumbing official and the water purveyor. _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://fireball.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)
