Backflow Prevention Education Taking Center Stage for Local Columbia Plumbers

Local Columbia, South Carolina plumbing companies stress the importance of backflow prevention education as 2024 begins, to help keep keep dangerous contaminants from reaching our water supply.

Columbia, United States - January 8, 2024 /PressCable/ —

Local Columbia, South Carolina plumbing services companies like Plumb Time Plumbing and Drain Services have been putting backflow prevention education at the forefront of priorities before the new year starts, ensuring customers and community leaders alike understand that backflow prevention helps keep dangerous contaminants - including microorganisms, bacteria, noxious chemicals, heavy metals, gases and other potentially threatening pollutants/substances - out of a neighborhood’s potable water system.

With numerous and well-documented cases of pollutants, serious illnesses and other factors leading to death spreading through the water supply due to backflow into the potable water system, South Carolina state level representatives point to some incidents dating as far back as the turn of the century. In fact, it is Plumb Time’s Manny Alexander who has been pointing out serious cases of contamination that have occurred throughout the country - not only in his company’s home state of South Carolina.

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“In December of 1980, some 20,000 residents of the Pittsburgh area were without water for several weeks after contamination of their water supply by the pesticides chlordane and heptachlor,” explains Alexander. “A cross-connection backsiphoned the pesticides from an exterminator truck into the water supply, which is similar to something that happened in Iowa in April of 1979, when a cross-connection between a potable water system and a sewage system at a meat packing plant caused sewage water to be sprayed on $2K worth of pork in the plant. The contamination cost the company $3,000 and resulted in extended unemployment time for 200 workers while the situation was cleaned up.”

According to expert plumbers like Alexander, backflow prevention is a matter of protecting the quality and safety of the water supply, critical to public health, whether it’s for drinking, domestic use, food production or recreational purposes. What’s more, plumbing services businesses such as Plumb Time Plumbing have been stressing the two common causes of backflow on both commercial and residential properties in the West Columbia and Lexington area, which tend to be back siphonage and backpressure.

“Backflow can be due to back siphonage or reduced pressure in the water distribution system,” explains Alexander. “Back siphonage may occur due to water main breaks, water pump failure or the drawdown of the firewater supply; backpressure, meanwhile, can cause backflow because of increased pressure from a non-potable water source, and can be linked to heaters, coolers, boilers, manufacturing systems or waste disposal.

“From our experience dealing with a range of customers, we can say that the most common industries with backflow preventers are hospitals and health care facilities, school districts and manufacturing, commercial and the industrial sector.”

These local Columbia plumbing services businesses have also been stressing that compliance and safety are two of the most valuable and necessary components of any successful business - or protected home - and that testing should be performed by a certified, licensed Columbia plumber that can immediately perform repairs in the event of failures. The right professionals will temporarily shut off the water to perform the testing of the valves, while the numbers from the test will be recorded, documented by the plumbing company and sent to the proper state officials.

Plumb Time Plumbing offers backflow prevention services alongside general plumbing repair, water heater repair, sewer line repair, drain cleaning and sewer camera inspections. The company is located at 3513 Delree Street in West Columbia, SC. 29170 and can be reached by calling (803) 988-9202. For more information visit the website cited above.

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Name: Manny Anderson
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Organization: Plumb Time Plumbing & Drain Services
Address: 3513 Delree St, Columbia, SC 29170, United States
Phone: +1-803-988-9202
Website: https://www.plumbtimesc.com/

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