Why Now is the Time to Schedule Backflow Testing

Spring is a time for renewal and fresh starts. While many businesses and property owners focus on cleaning up physical spaces, one critical area that often goes overlooked is water system maintenance. Just like dusting off shelves and deep-cleaning floors, ensuring your water system is in peak condition is essential for safety, compliance, and efficiency. One of the most important tasks is scheduling your annual backflow test. Here is why spring is the ideal time to schedule.

Spring is the Ideal Time for Backflow Testing

As the weather warms, water demand increases. Irrigation systems, cooling towers, and fire sprinkler systems all return to full operation, making it crucial to ensure your backflow preventers are functioning properly. A faulty backflow preventer can allow contaminants such as fertilizers, chemicals, and bacteria to enter the clean water supply, posing serious health risks.

Spring and summer are busy seasons for water, wastewater, and public works projects. We know improving infrastructure and overall quality of services to your community is crucial during these busy months. BSI assists you with meeting State/Provincial requirements for a cross-connection control/backflow program.

Many municipalities require annual backflow testing for their water customers, an EPA requirement. Spring is the ideal time to complete these inspections before peak summer usage. Failing to test on time could lead to compliance violations, fines, and potential liability if a contamination event occurs. Water purveyors, get a head start this season by partnering with BSI Online to administer your backflow management program so your team has more time to focus on enforcement, compliance, and other daily requirements!

The Benefits of Proactive Backflow Prevention

  • Ensures Water Safety – Preventing contamination protects drinking water and public health.
  • Avoids Costly Repairs – Routine testing can catch minor issues before they turn into major emergency/repair plumbing failures.
  • Maintains EPA Compliance – Many local regulations mandate annual testing, and staying ahead of deadlines avoids fines and legal issues.
  • Prepares for Peak Water Usage – Ensuring your irrigation and plumbing systems are in top shape before the summer prevents unexpected disruptions.

How to Schedule Your Backflow Test

Scheduling your test is simple. Contact a certified backflow tester in your area or work with a backflow management company that can help track your compliance requirements. With digital/cloud-based solutions like BSI Online, you can streamline backflow test scheduling, compliance tracking, and reporting in one easy-to-use platform:

✔️Easy Implementation

✔️Custom Reporting

✔️Online Test Entry

✔️Tester Credential Verification

✔️Stakeholder Support

✔️Multi-User Water Purveyor Access

Spring cleaning is not just for your home or business interior, it is also the perfect time to maintain your water systems. By scheduling your backflow test now, you can ensure clean, safe water, avoid compliance issues, and prevent costly repairs. Do not wait until peak summer demand to address backflow prevention. Act today and enjoy peace of mind all season long.

As we head into the busy spring/summer months, we understand backflow data can become cumbersome. Piles of test reports to be manually entered into software, or even filing the paper reports, is extremely time consuming. BSI Online can help…we offer a cloud-based, tester driven, test submission process…all in real-time! BSI has no user license fees (unlimited users) and all users can be logged in simultaneously. With BSI Online, you will gain program transparency, real-time data, expert stakeholder support, and data/program security. Reach out to marketing@backflow.com today and we will connect you with our dedicated Sales Team!