Cross-Connection ControlBackflowPrep

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How to become a backflow tester in Florida

In Florida, individual water purveyors decide which tester certifications they accept. Florida DEP requires public water systems to run cross-connection control programs and have assemblies tested with calibrated gauge equipment, but names no state tester license; DEP's page points to the University of Florida TREEO Center and USC's Foundation for Cross-Connection Control and Hydraulic Research as training/reference resources, and each utility's DEP-required program sets which tester certifications it accepts.

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Start at the source

Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), Source & Drinking Water Program oversees cross-connection control here. Its site, floridadep.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.

Other states

Georgiastate
Hawaiihybrid
Idahostate
Illinoisstate
Indianastate
Iowastate
Kansashybrid
Kentuckyhybrid

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Verified against official sources at the time of writing; the authority and your purveyors are always the final word.