What types of properties are required to install a backflow prevention device?
Unless they receive a specific exemption from DEP, the following types of businesses are required to use backflow preventers: • Metal plating, cleaning, processing or fabricating facilities • Photo-processing facilities • Laundries and dry cleaners • Commercial car washes • Greenhouses • Hospitals, Clinics and Laboratories (including veterinary hospitals) • Medical and Dental Offices • Funeral Parlors • Food processing plants and meat / fish packers • Dye Plants • Paper processors • Auto Repair Shops • Breweries • Tanneries • Exterminators • Large residential dwellings with water boilers that use rust-inhibitors or other water treatment chemicals, (“treated water boilers”) • Sewage treatment plants or handling facilities • Premises with multiple water service lines; • Premises with roof tanks and elevated storage lines • Canneries • Slaughterhouse / Live Poultry Processing Facilities • Ice Manufacturing Facilities • Printing Facilities • Supermarkets • Premises with large boilers or ch
