Filing a backflow test report to the Regional District of Nanaimo
Filing this by hand? Email a photo of the completed report to file@backflowfiled.com. Within the hour you'll have the report typed up from it, the owner's copy drafted, and the email to waterops@rdn.bc.ca prepared — and you approve it before anything is sent. First five free, then C$7 a report. How it works
Got a notice for a building here? Book the test and we'll file it: backflowfiled.com/book. Or check your own deadline for Regional District of Nanaimo.
Where it goes
Email the report to Water Services, the address printed on the 2025 tester form.
How often, and by when
Upon installation, after repair and at least once every 12 months. The report is due within 30 days of the test.
Source: Cross Connection Control Regulation Bylaw No. 1788, s.9(b).
Whatever the deadline, the report only stands if your test kit was in calibration on the day. Most programmes require it every twelve months, and a lapsed kit does not slow you down — it stops you filing at all. We will email you before yours lapses, free.
Worth knowing
The 2023 Programme Guide gives rcu@rdn.bc.ca; the 2025 tester form gives waterops@rdn.bc.ca, which we use. The City of Nanaimo is a different authority.
Not a tester? If you own or manage the building and a notice arrived, here is what it means and what you have to do.
When we checked
Checked 26-Sep-2026, against the Regional District of Nanaimo's own bylaw, tester sheet or test report form. These change. If this is wrong, tell us and we will fix it the same day — help@backflowfiled.com. We would rather be corrected than be confidently out of date.
We make software that fills in the authority's own form and keeps the record — what that looks like. This page is here whether or not that is of any use to you. All 70 BC authorities →
Status: Takes reports directly.