Cross Connection Control News
This page provides the latest news about various aspects of the new regional Cross Connection Control Program that is being developed for the Greater Victoria Drinking Water Supply System. It includes some of the recent changes that have been made to the operation of the program along with newly posted information useful to local testers, facility owners, municipal inspectors and drinking water suppliers.
Website Postings
- BFP Testers, Calibrators & Specialists
- BFP Device Suppliers
- Design Level Facility Survey Form - Interactive (PDF
) updated - Backflow Incidents and Events
- Backflow Prevention Assemblies
Regional Cross Connection Control Program
CMHO Order and CRD Bylaw
An Order issued by Dr. Richard Stanwick, Chief Medical Health Officer, Vancouver Island Health Authority, in November 2005 required the drinking water suppliers in the Greater Victoria Drinking Water Supply System to cooperatively prepare and implement a regional Cross Connection Control Bylaw by August 1, 2006.
Data Collection
As part of the requirement for the drinking water suppliers to work cooperatively in the new regional Cross Connection Control Program, all testing data for Back Flow Prevention (BFP) assemblies will be combined into a single, large database with CRD Cross Connection Control staff responsible for maintaining the data. To this end, CRD staff have collected information from the files in all of the local municipal offices about previously installed assemblies. In addition, the existing electronic BFP test data that Saanich and Victoria had been maintaining in separate databases have now been transferred into the CRD database.
Annual Letters
CRD Cross Connection Control staff are now responsible for sending out the annual letters which request facility owners to have their BFP assemblies tested. Previously, these letters were sent out by individual municipalities to facility owners in those municipalities. With the change to a regional program and the use of a single, large database, this function was also regionalized.