Backflow

1” Wilkins Model 720A

QUESTION:I am servicing a 1” Wilkins Model 720A. Can you give me any helpful hints on how to repair this assembly?

Backflow Prevention & Fire Protection Quiz

According to the ASSE International Plumbing Dictionary, working pressure is the maximum pressure in a water piping system allowable under normal working conditions. Likewise,...

Fire Protection: Water is the Hazard?

When we look at the required cross-connection protection, it is important to understand the system type, piping material, water supply to the...

Backflow Test Kits: How Do They Work?

Backflow test kits have been on the market for over 50 years. Some of the original design technologies have stood the test...

Rethinking Barometric Loops

We all likely have things we believe in, even though we have probably never seen them for ourselves. Depending on where you...

Protecting Our Water

Backflow may not be a household term, but it plays a significant role in safeguarding the health and safety of millions of...

Why Are We Moving Backwards?

Our country is in a fractured state. We are more divided now than we have been at any other point in my...

Pressure Vacuum Breaker Assemblies (PVB)

Pressure Vacuum Breaker Assemblies (PVBs) are one of many types of backflow prevention devices designed to protect the public from unsafe conditions...

Vacuum Breaker Testing Standards

Backflow refers to the unwanted reversal of fluid flow in a piping system — essentially when water moves in the opposite direction...

Backflow Prevention Product Standards

As an engineering student at North Carolina State University, I recall the first time I was ever introduced to the concept of...