Broward County Water and Wastewater Services: backflow testing rules
Serves Unincorporated Broward County, FL; Lauderdale Lakes, FL; Lauderhill, FL; North Lauderdale, FL. Every point below comes from Broward County Water and Wastewater Services's own pages, linked; check your notice for your own deadline.
Who must test
- Commercial, institutional and government customers, plus residential or multi family buildings over three stories, must install an assembly at their own cost and have it tested and certified every year. Source.
Notices and deadlines
- Customers are mailed notices 60 days and 30 days before their annual backflow compliance due date to produce passing results and pay filing fees. Source.
How the report is filed
- Test results and filing fee payments are uploaded through the Backflow Solutions Inc. (BSI) website. Source.
Tester registration
- Fire service backflows need fire service qualified technicians; domestic and irrigation assemblies need a certified backflow tester working under a licensed plumber. Source.
Program
- Broward County Water and Wastewater Services runs backflow certification and compliance under the county cross connection backflow prevention ordinance, Chapter 34 section 212. Source.
How to file your backflow test with Broward County Water and Wastewater Services
- Read your notice. Customers are mailed notices 60 days and 30 days before their annual backflow compliance due date to produce passing results and pay filing fees.Source.
- Book a tester Broward County Water and Wastewater Services accepts. See finding a tester below; book early so there is time to repair a failed assembly.
- The tester tests the assembly and fills in the test report. A failed assembly is repaired and tested again.
- The report is filed. Test results and filing fee payments are uploaded through the Backflow Solutions Inc. (BSI) website.Source.
- Keep a copy and set a reminder for next year. Set a free test-due reminder.
Finding a tester Broward County Water and Wastewater Services accepts
We found no tester list on Broward County Water and Wastewater Services's own pages. Use a state certified tester, and check your notice in case it names the testers or the portal it accepts.
Before you book, ask the tester:
- Are you registered with Broward County Water and Wastewater Services?
- Will you file the report in BSI Online for me, and pay or pass on any filing fee?
- When is my report due? The date is on your notice; the tester needs time to test, repair if needed and file.
Other water utilities in Florida
- Miami-Dade Water and Sewer Department
- City of Tampa Water Department
- Orlando Utilities Commission
- City of Boca Raton Utility Services
- City of Fort Lauderdale Public Works
- City of Hollywood Public Utilities
- City of Pembroke Pines Utilities
- City of Sanford Utilities
Read October 6, 2026. Program page: broward.org.