Backflow testing in Charlotte

Who has to test in Charlotte

The rule depends on the utility that sends your water bill. Each line below is from that utility's own page.

• Charlotte Water: All industrial and commercial customers must install and maintain backflow prevention assemblies at every water service connection, including domestic, irrigation, fire line and swimming pool meters.

Source: Charlotte Water

How each utility takes the test report

Most utilities here take the report online through a vendor portal; the tester files it. Open a utility for its own deadline, filing steps and fees.

What testing costs in Charlotte

These are amounts the utility or a company published on its own page, shown as published, never averaged.

• Charlotte Water: Charlotte Water applies fees for backflow plan review and inspection on projects covered by Chapter 23, Article IV of the City Code, collected through the building permit fee process. No amount is stated.

Source: Charlotte Water

If the test is missed

• Charlotte Water: Falsifying records or failing to meet the tester requirements results in removal from the approved certified tester list and/or penalties under the ordinance.

Source: Charlotte Water

North Carolina rules behind the local programs

State rules set the minimum; the utilities above add their own deadlines and tester registration.

• 15A NCAC 18C.0406(b)(6)(C). The rule text read does not say 'annual'; testing frequency is not set in this rule.
• 15A NCAC 18D operator rules: systems required by.0406(b) to have five or more testable assemblies need an operator holding a Cross-Connection Control certificate. This is a program operator credential, not a statewide tester licence.
• NC General Statutes 87-21 describes install, repair or replace backflow preventers for the limited plumbing licence; it speaks to install/repair, not testing.

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