Thieves are stealing the brass backflow valves from business properties to sell as scrap for $25 or $30. The repair could cost that business more than $2,000 in parts and labor. BAKERSFIELD ...

The NY Times reports that even though backflow prevention valves are required by city law, thousands of buildings lack them. Backflow preventers help protect water supplies by keeping "hazardous ...

The Manatee County Utility Operations Department is merely responsible for enforcing a federal law requiring backflow valves near the water meter to protect the health of the community.

boilers must be protected by either a testable double check valve backflow prevention assembly, or an RPZ valve (pictured above). Despite this, the city of Minneapolis is allowing the old non ...

In 1979, nearly 3 million pounds of pork was contaminated at the Swift & Co. packing plant in Marshalltown when employees unknowingly sprayed hog carcasses with wastewater from the kill floor and ...

The Check Valve from marine wet exhaust systems manufacturer Centek Industries helps prevent water from flowing back into engines and gensets. The check valve will be especially useful on boats and ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Longmont Public Safety is trying to stop people from taking backflow preventers but with incidents of the ...