Keeping accurate records is an essential part of a successful backflow prevention program. This paper describes a successful data management system whose objectives are to: keep backflow incidents from happening by knowing that the proper backflow prevention assemblies are in place where they need to be and that the assemblies are functioning correctly; better resource allocation; and, provide summary documentation for state agency compliance purposes. Besides maintaining records for existing backflow prevention assemblies in active service, a
thorough backflow prevention data management program will maintain records for the
following:
existing backflow prevention assemblies in inactive service locations, e.g. vacant
buildings;
locations where a backflow prevention assembly is required but not yet installed;
due to a survey or other inspection of the site;
due to new service requirements;
due to retrofit or replacement requirements;
locations where it has been determined that a backflow prevention assembly is not
required; and,
locations where a backflow prevention assembly has been removed due to a change in
type of service. Other topics covered by a good data management program include: cross connection site management; facility management; certified tester list; resource/lookup tables; assembly models; data entry controls, automatic calculations and formatting; event management; events to document; test result entry; merge letter management; searching and sorting; maintaining digital images; and, reporting/export capabilities. Includes figures.
| Edition : | Vol. - No. |
| File Size : | 1
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| Note : | This product is unavailable in Ukraine, Russia, Belarus |
| Number of Pages : | 10 |
| Published : | 06/16/2002 |
