According to Dan Sandink, director of research for ICLR and architect of the backwater valve protocol website, “backwater valves are an important component of many basement flood mitigation ...

City of Windsor officials are calling on homeowners to install backwater valves under the subsidy program. We did this back in June and it proved disastrous. Reader Letters Published Oct 07, 2017 ...

Guidance on how language within building and plumbing codes should be interpreted with respect to backwater valves should support mandatory installation in all or most new Canadian homes, suggests ...

So, I understand from reading through various forum posts that backwater valves (or check valves) are problematic. I get it: you keep outside sewage out, but you end up keeping your own in, for the ...

Backwater valves in new construction is fine, but it's not going to help anybody else." Chandler argued a number of city streets have always flooded, even way back to when he was a kid.

The city’s protective plumbing program offers residents grants of up to $2,000, plus $220 for building permits, to install backwater valves to guard against sewage backups.

A new home backwater-valve grant program intended to get rid of abuses by some plumbing businesses has been approved by a city council committee.

Since then, 19 grant applications for backwater valves have been approved, as well as 16 others for sump pumps, city officials reported.