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Wasilla seeks options after letters to 269 customers about backflow preventer testing
Summary
City staff told council the cross-connection/backflow reporting program exists to meet state and federal requirements; council asked administration to return with cost estimates and options for assistance to affected businesses after concerns about testing costs.
City of Wasilla staff told the council Monday that a recently restarted backflow prevention reporting program identified roughly 269 water customers who may be required to maintain annual backflow-prevention testing. Council members and business owners raised cost concerns and asked the administration to return with cost estimates and options for financial assistance.
Public works director Eric Shaw said the backflow requirement has been in municipal code for decades but the city had not maintained a centralized record of tests. An Environmental Protection Agency inspection highlighted the absence of retained test records; municipal staff sent letters to customers to collect the data the city needs to maintain its public-water-system obligations.
Shaw said about 272…
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