City of Hamilton Backflow Prevention Program

The City of Hamilton began a ‘Backflow Prevention Program’ to protect your drinking water quality by making sure that the appropriate backflow prevention devices had been installed and inspected on private properties in the Hamilton area. These devices prevent contaminated water from flowing back into the city’s water system, and can also be found in place in many other municipalities in Ontario. This program will not affect an enormous amount of people’s homes however; it will impact approximately 15,000 commercial, institutional and multi–residential properties such as apartments, hotels, hospitals, automotive and manufacturing facilities etc.

Hamilton has very strict water safety guidelines and standards. Everything must be in compliance with Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). When Property owners began being notified in 2018, they were advised of compliance laws and timelines that would have to be followed, as well as surveys that would be administered and backflow prevention devices that would be installed with deadlines to be met in accordance with City of Hamilton Compliance Regulations.