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How to become a backflow tester in New Mexico

In New Mexico, individual water purveyors decide which tester certifications they accept. New Mexico has no statewide backflow tester license; NMED's operator certification program does not include a backflow tester class, and NMED permit conditions instead require testers to have completed a 40-hour course based on USC's Backflow Prevention Standards and Test Procedures, with water systems and localities setting tester requirements.

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Start at the source

New Mexico Environment Department (NMED), Drinking Water Bureau oversees cross-connection control here. Its site, www.env.nm.gov, carries the current program requirements, and official pages name 40-hour backflow prevention course based on the USC Foundation for Cross-Connection Control and Hydraulic Research standards (named in NMED permit conditions) among recognized programs.

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

New Yorkstate
North Carolinahybrid
North Dakotastate
Ohiohybrid
Oklahomapurveyor
Oregonstate
Pennsylvaniapurveyor
Rhode Islandhybrid

The instrument this trade runs on

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Confirm what your jurisdiction's test procedures require before choosing a kit.The kit guide.

The three-year clock sheet, free

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