If Backflow Prevention Devices don't work properly, they can contaminate water. The town of Marana is asking homeowners to check theirs.
MARANA, Ariz. — The town of Marana is asking homeowners to check their Backflow Prevention Devices. The system works to prevent anyone from contaminating their own drinking water system.
"Backflow is a reverse of water," Louis Valencia, Marana Chief Water Quality Operator said."It can occur through back pressure or back siphonage. And what this does is it can draw contaminants into your water system if it's not protected."Marana Water says the devices can be found in areas like Gladden Farms.
"With the residential areas in Marana, especially Gladden farms, Rancho Marana there are over 1,000 back flow assemblies," Valencia said."To these sole residences due to the fact that they have second source irrigation water provided by Cortaro Management Marana Irrigation District.""It's a lot to keep track of and some of it's slipped through the cracks," Valencia said.
"So we've been living in Gladden farms for 18 years now," Shawn Cochran, Marana resident, said."So it's been an annual thing. We've known about it for quite a while, but we get notices.""Not much. We sign up with a kind of like a biannual contractor who comes out and checks it every year and it's like 25 bucks a year," Cochran said.Denelle Confair is an anchor and investigative reporter for KGUN 9.
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