Celebrating Backflow Prevention Day
For the second year, National Backflow Prevention Day on August 16, 2022, recognizes the role of backflow prevention and cross-connection control and those who install, maintain, and test backflow preventers. It marks the day in 1933 when a backflow incident occurred at a Chicago hotel resulting in 98 deaths and 2,000 illnesses. The incident led to the founding of the Foundation for Cross-Connection Control and Hydraulic Research and to new safe plumbing regulations for backflow assemblies. Plumbing & Mechanical marked the day by asking for backflow prevention “selfies” and photo submissions. Take a look.
Celebrating Backflow Prevention Day
Sean Cleary, vice president of industry programs and BPI Operations for IAPMO, says his wife is a good sport about posing for pictures with backflow prevention assemblies during vacations. This one was taken in Disney World. Photo Courtesy of Sean Cleary.
Celebrating Backflow Prevention Day
Sean Cleary, vice president of industry programs and BPI Operations for IAPMO, says his wife is a good sport about posing for pictures with backflow prevention assemblies during vacations. This one was taken in Oahu, Hawaii in 2018. Photo Courtesy of Sean Cleary.
Celebrating Backflow Prevention Day
Sean Cleary, vice president of industry programs and BPI Operations for IAPMO, teaches a backflow tester certification class in BPI’s wet lab at the IAPMO headquarters in Ontario, California. Photo Courtesy of Sean Cleary.
Celebrating Backflow Prevention Day
Testing Services Inc. in Oakdale, Minnesota, specializes in backflow prevention. Photo courtesy of Sabrina Kirby-VinZant.
Celebrating Backflow Prevention Day
A 2” Watts Pro Press Double Check Assembly was added to an existing domestic water service. Photo Courtesy of Thomas Kober.
Celebrating Backflow Prevention Day
Another Watts Pro Press Double Check Assembly added to an existing domestic water service. Photo Courtesy of Thomas Kober.
Celebrating Backflow Prevention Day
Tom Allingham, owner of Backflow Services, poses with a backflow prevention assembly. Photo courtesy of Tom Allingham.
Celebrating Backflow Prevention Day
A Backflow Services employee poses with an assembly. Photo courtesy of Tom Allingham.
Celebrating Backflow Prevention Day
A Backflow Services employee tests a backflow preventer. Photo courtesy of Tom Allingham.
Celebrating Backflow Prevention Day
John Simoncini with Apollo Valves mans the booth during a trade show. Photo courtesy of Pepco Sales and Marketing.
Celebrating Backflow Prevention Day
Sean Perry of Apollo Valves teaches a backflow prevention training class for local wholesalers. Additional attendance from the Pepco Sales and Marketing team. Photo courtesy of Pepco Sales and Marketing.
Celebrating Backflow Prevention Day
A picture of 7 RPBAs in a kitchen that McKinstry journeyman plumber Nick Rose and apprentice Alex James installed for a customer. They put in a great deal of planning to ensure that the backflow assemblies were not behind any large fixed equipment and they were instead behind equipment that was on wheels to assist with testing in the future. Photo courtesy of Adam Campbell.
Celebrating Backflow Prevention Day
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Work completed in McKinstry’s pre-fab shop by the team of plumbers led shop foreman John Panteleeff. These are some Premise isolation RPBAs for one of McKinstry’s projects. These RPBAs also have FCIS controllers that will shut off the water in the event that the RPBA is dumping a large amount of water. Photo courtesy of Adam Campbell.
Celebrating Backflow Prevention Day
United Association of Plumbers and Pipefitters held its Instructor Training Program in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the week of Aug. 15. The Methods in Teaching Backflow Certification class instructors from left to right: Chad Thompson from UA Local 630 in West Palm Beach Florida; Joe Kajak; Sean Cleary from the IAPMO Backflow Prevention Institute (BPI); and Ralph Young from Sprinkler Fitters Local 669. Photo Courtesy of Sean Cleary.
Celebrating Backflow Prevention Day
The students in the 2022 Methods in Teaching Backflow Certification class during the UA Instructor Training Program. Photo Courtesy of Sean Cleary.