It’s easy to imagine that there could even be animal feces, herbicides and also fertilizers into the drinking water that eventually is going to go into the main line. Since this water is going to mix with the drinking water, it’s going to cause you and everyone else drinking it a lot of health problems. While you may think that this is a scenario that’s highly unlikely to happen, it does unfortunately happen a lot every day in the United States. And in fact, this is the main reason why backflow testing is currently required everywhere in the country.

By using backflow preventers, you will never have to worry about your drinking water getting contaminated by stagnant water or any other type of risky liquids/debris. Here in Vancouver we heavily rely on the Double-check valve which offers 2 incredible layers of protection. Even if one of them will eventually fail, the other is going to prevent contamination in a backflow situation. However, as useful as they are, these devices are eventually going to fail as well and that’s why it’s required that they’re tested every year.

With yearly testing, we can easily identify backflow devices that have started to go bad prior before they actually break. Since we can easily detect failures before they happen, we can protect your family, you and also your neighbors from a very dangerous cross-contamination problem.