By Sean Cleary, Vice President of Industry Programs and BPI Operations This year on August 16th 2022 is the second annual National Backflow Prevention Day. It is a day to celebrate everyone who works behind the scenes protecting the water systems we depend on each and every day. These are things most...

Within the cross-connection industry there are a number of opinions on how important the installation of containment protection is or in some cases if containment programs are even necessary at all. To get started we need to answer what containment protection is. Containment protection is the installation...

If you are a certified tester, you learned to field test the second check of a reduced pressure principle assembly (RP) one of two ways. The procedure directed you to either test it with a reverse differential pressure (higher outlet pressure) or a direction of flow test with a greater inlet pressure. Let’s...

For a cross-connection protection program to be successful in any meaningful way it is critical that isolation protection requirements are a large part of any program or strategy. Isolation protection is cross-connection protection at the fixtures, appliances, equipment, or fire protection systems within...

It is hard to know where to start when it comes to a man who has given his life to an industry he loves so very much. It began in 1963 when Bernie Clarke became a licensed plumber. Mr. Clarke has been a certified backflow tester for over 45 years. In 1976 he started his own testing company, Backflow...

For many years I have heard complaints from testers questioning why there is not a single set of “National” test procedures for testing backflow prevention assemblies.  There are numerous national and regional trade associations and universities engaged in promoting cross-connection control and backflow...