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Valdosta adopts new backflow requirements, cites 2,167 devices and Dec. 31 compliance deadline
Summary
The council approved a utilities protocol and an addendum tightening backflow prevention assembly requirements; Utilities Director Jason Barnes said the city has 2,167 active assemblies and set a Dec. 31 compliance target while promising customer outreach and case-by-case hardship consideration.
Valdosta’s council on March 12 adopted a water-service termination protocol and a related addendum strengthening backflow-prevention requirements after Utilities Director Jason Barnes described freeze-related incidents that forced emergency actions to protect the distribution system.
Barnes told the council the city operates a cross-connection control program to comply with the Georgia Safe Drinking Water Act and Georgia EPD requirements and recommended the protocol to authorize field staff to terminate…
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