ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Retired professional mechanical engineer Mike Higgins, 75, recently sent the city of St. Petersburg a letter with ideas on how to redesign backflow preventers to make them more ...

SUDBURY, ON - March 04, 2026 - PRESSADVANTAGE - Elasto-Valve Rubber Products (EVR), a manufacturer of rubber duckbill ...

National Backflow Prevention Day is a day dedicated to the celebration of backflow prevention and cross-connection control. Backflow preventers are the unsung heroes of water safety as they often go ...

The City Council is taking a look at toughening up enforcement for backflow preventer inspections. Under the proposal, customers would have to comply with current regulations on inspections, or be ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) — The City of St. Petersburg is spending millions of dollars to help with flooding problems in the Shore Acres neighborhood. On Wednesday, work began on a project to ...

The city has paid a lot of attention to backflow preventers, since our tap water ban in 2016. Those devices are designed to keep chemicals and harmful bacteria out of our water supply. Now, the city ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) - INFORMATION FROM THE CITY OF SHREVEPORT: Residential water customers with a lawn irrigation system will soon receive notices about completing ...