Backflow Prevention

Kentrel, Inc. provides professional services in conducting and remediating backflow and cross-connection problems. Backflow prevention is required to assure safe water for drinking, bathing, and cooking. Consumers turn their faucets on and what they believe to be "safe drinking water" is immediately available, pure and plentiful. They assume the water is safe simply because no one has warned them otherwise. Safe drinking water is Federally-mandated and regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency. Extremely dangerous situations continue to occur when backflow of contaminants are inadvertently allowed to enter our safe drinking water supplies!

There are five distinct types of piping or mechanical assemblies which are considered to be backflow prevention assemblies; but, it must be stressed that these are not all equally acceptable as protection against all types of hazards. The degree of hazard must be assessed along with they type of cross-connection present to determine which type of backflow prevention assembly is most suitable to the situation. Kentrel, Inc. and its technicians are licensed and certified backflow and cross-connection specialists and are certified by New England Water following EPA Protocols. For more information on this product or ordering information, or if you just want to discuss backflow, please contact Kentrel, Inc.

The purpose of these pages are to provide an understanding of how far-reaching and critical backflow contamination problems are. We have provided actual case histories of selected backflow incidents (true accounts of hazardous, even fatal situations with ineffective backflow prevention techniques) compiled by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.

Backflow prevention is a long-term investment with ongoing requirements and all-industry professionals, such as Kentrel, Inc., are held to the highest standards and levels of responsibility necessary to protect that investment.