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The Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction (ICLR) has launched a backwater valve installation website to provide basic information about sewage backflow prevention devices to assist homeowners ...
Once the inspector has signed off on your backwater valve the permit status will change to “Completed – All inspections signed off”. Use the building permit application status tool to confirm your ...
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 ...
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.
A backwater valve costs about $250 but needs to be installed by a plumber, said Cheryl Evans, director of the home adaptation program at the Intact Centre for Climate Adaptation, a University of ...
Rockhampton Regional Council in central Queensland says underground valves are the best solution to mitigate flooding in North Rockhampton. The $3 million project will see 11 valves and flood ...
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.
Backwater valves reduce risk of flooding, city engineer CBC News · Posted: Aug 03, 2011 9:49 AM EDT | Last Updated: August 3, 2011 ...
After a limited run last year, the City of Brandon is partnering with the province to provide sump pump and backwater valve rebates to any property in Brandon that doesn’t already have one.