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  1. jobujobu

    Inspector wants full backflow preventer discharge handled by sanitary?

    Sorry for so many replies to my own thread, its my first post :) Maybe this can clarify my question. In the past, we have put in sanitary drainage from backflow preventers to handle the water discharge if the backflow preventer stopped backflow into the main. This is not a huge amount of...
  2. jobujobu

    Inspector wants full backflow preventer discharge handled by sanitary?

    As far as the "only one of them would backflow at a time", they are not on seperate systems. The Inspector has approved similar projects where two smaller backflow preventers were used, so it is his assumption that only one will discharge at a time. I think in the Watts tables, this is a...
  3. jobujobu

    Inspector wants full backflow preventer discharge handled by sanitary?

    It was a 2" Watts 909. From the watts tables, any 909 model that is 1-1/4" or larger will discharge 200 to 250 gpm (based on the pressure) and overwhelm a 4" sewer.
  4. jobujobu

    Inspector wants full backflow preventer discharge handled by sanitary?

    For the first time, I had an inspector note that he wanted the sanitary system to be capable of handling all of the continuous backflow preventer water flow if there was a catastrophic release of water. In order to accomodate this, we had to replace the backflow preventer with two 3/4" backflow...
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