How to become a backflow tester in Alaska
In Alaska, individual water purveyors decide which tester certifications they accept. Drinking water regulation 18 AAC 80.025 makes the public water system owner responsible for installing, maintaining, and testing backflow prevention assemblies (delegable to the facility that poses the risk) and specifies AWWA C510/C511 assembly standards but no tester certification, leaving tester acceptance to water systems.
- Recognition
- purveyor
- Named programs
- Ask purveyors
- Verified
- Partially
Start at the source
Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), Drinking Water Program oversees cross-connection control here. Its site, dec.alaska.gov, carries the current program requirements.
Verify locally
Parts of this state's structure could not be fully confirmed against official sources; the authority and your purveyors are the final word.
The path, wherever you are
- Confirm which certifications the authority and your target purveyors accept.
- Complete a recognized tester course, typically a multi-day class ending in a written exam and a hands-on practical on the main assembly families. The ASSE 5110 requirements are the national reference point.
- Register with the authority or each purveyor, per their process, and keep your gauge calibration documented.
- Renew on the recert clock before it lapses: the two-clock sheet makes the schedule automatic, and backflow tester recertification explains the three-year cycle.
Before committing, read what backflow testing pays andhow to become a backflow tester, which walks the course, exam and practical that every state path runs through.
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| Delaware | hybrid |
| Florida | purveyor |
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The instrument this trade runs on
Mid-West 845-5 5-Valve Test Kit
Arbiter Mako MK5 Digital 5-Valve Kit
Acugauge TK Plus 3-Valve Kit
BAC-FLO-5 Test KitConfirm what your jurisdiction's test procedures require before choosing a kit.The kit guide.
The three-year clock sheet, free
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