Backflow guides
- BC backflow test report deadlines, by city
Every deadline we have verified, in the authority's own words.
- What a backflow test is, and who has to have one
What a backflow preventer does, what the annual test checks, who must arrange it and what happens to the report — with the bylaw sections.
- What a backflow test costs in BC
The fees BC authorities charge to file a backflow test report, each from the authority's own bylaw or page, and what a tester's fee covers.
- Backflow fines and penalties in BC
What a missed backflow test or report can cost in BC, quoted from each authority's bylaw: minimum fines, bylaw notices and rejected reports.
- Choosing a backflow tester in BC
What a BC backflow tester has to hold, which authorities add a licence or list, and the questions worth asking before you book.
- Backflow duties for strata councils and property managers
Who the bylaws put the backflow duty on, what a council or manager should hold on file, and how to keep every building's clock in one place.
- My backflow test failed — what happens now
What a failed test means and the deadlines that follow it.
- Backflow reports: portal or email, authority by authority
Which BC authorities take a backflow test report by email, which require a vendor portal, and which publish no route at all.
- Backflow records to keep, and for how long
What an owner should keep after each backflow test, what the bylaws say about it, and why the tester's copy is not enough.