City of Virginia Beach Public Utilities: backflow testing rules

City of Virginia Beach Public Utilities at a glance

When the test is due

City Code requires backflow prevention devices to be tested every year, and the customer must make sure the test is done and the passing form reaches Public Utilities. Source.

How the report is filed

Testers enter backflow test data in SwiftComply, using their own tester account; Public Utilities no longer hands out paper test forms. Source.

Approved testers

No tester list on the City of Virginia Beach Public Utilities pages read here. Ask a Virginia certified tester whether City of Virginia Beach Public Utilities has them on file.

Who must test

• The customer is responsible for annual testing by a certified backflow prevention device worker and for the passing test form reaching Public Utilities. Source.

Tester registration

• Anyone testing or repairing backflow devices must be certified through the Commonwealth tradesman program as a Backflow Prevention Device Worker (DPOR). Source.

Program

• Virginia Beach Public Utilities surveys, inspects and tracks testing of all backflow devices and assemblies on its water system, under a program begun in 2011 and City Code 37-68. Source.

From notice to filed report, the steps are the same everywhere: how a backflow test goes.

Other water utilities in Virginia

• Fairfax Water
• Chesterfield County Utilities
• City of Richmond Department of Public Utilities

Read October 7, 2026. Program page: pu.virginiabeach.gov.

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