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Committee continues plumbing code update to align backflow rules across city agencies
Summary
The committee heard an SFPUC‑led presentation on plumbing code amendments aimed at harmonizing cross‑connection/backflow rules across DBI, SFPUC and DPH, including stricter protections for carbonated beverage dispensers with upstream copper piping; members continued the item for one week because amendments are substantive.
The Land Use Committee considered an ordinance to amend San Francisco’s plumbing code to align cross‑connection and backflow prevention requirements among the Department of Building Inspection (DBI), the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission and the Department of Public Health.
John Scarpulla of the SFPUC described the public‑health and infrastructure risk of a backflow event — when contaminated water reverses into a potable supply — and said the amendments would reconcile prior inconsistencies between the plumbing code,…
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