Ogden City Water Utility: backflow testing rules
Serves Ogden, UT. Every point below comes from Ogden City Water Utility's own pages, linked; check your notice for your own deadline.
Who must test
- Landscape irrigation systems that use culinary water must have a backflow preventer installed. Source.
- Accepted preventers for culinary landscape irrigation are AVB, PVB, RP and SVB; double check valve assemblies are not approved for landscape irrigation. Source.
- Irrigation systems fed only by secondary water do not need backflow protection; systems that can use both secondary and culinary water likely have a direct cross connection and should be reported to the city's backflow technician. Source.
Notices and deadlines
- Backflow preventers must be tested within 10 days of initial use and recertified every year; the owner is responsible, and all testing must be done by a certified backflow tester. Source.
Tester registration
- Testing and recertification are the owner's responsibility and must be done by a certified backflow tester (the state Class II certification lets a technician test for record). Source.
Approved testers
- The Certified Backflow Technicians page links 'State Registered & Certified Backflow Testers' to the Utah Division of Drinking Water public list (through an Outlook safelinks redirect). state list, not a city roster; not downloaded). Source.
How to file your backflow test with Ogden City Water Utility
- Read your notice. Backflow preventers must be tested within 10 days of initial use and recertified every year; the owner is responsible, and all testing must be done by a certified backflow tester.Source.
- Book a tester Ogden City Water Utility 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. Ask the tester how they send it to the utility, and get a copy.
- Keep a copy and set a reminder for next year. Set a free test-due reminder.
Finding a tester Ogden City Water Utility accepts
Ogden City Water Utility posts a list of testers it accepts on waterlink.utah.gov. Open the list. The testers on this site hold a state certificate; check the list or ask the tester whether Ogden City Water Utility accepts them.
Before you book, ask the tester:
- Are you registered with Ogden City Water Utility?
- Will you send the test report to the utility for me, and how?
- 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 Utah
- Salt Lake City Department of Public Utilities
- Granger-Hunter Improvement District
- West Jordan City Water
- City of St. George Water Services
- City of Orem Water Resources Division
- Layton City Public Works
- Saratoga Springs City Public Works
- Taylorsville-Bennion Improvement District
Read October 6, 2026. Program page: ogdencity.gov.