CROSS CONNECTION CONTROL (CCC) & BACKFLOW PREVENTION (BFP)

Safeguarding Medicine Hat's drinking water is everyone's responsibility. The purpose of the Cross Connection Control Program is to prevent waterborne diseases and contaminants from backflow through your business or home into the City of Medicine Hat's water distribution system and thus the water we drink. The program aims to protect the City and its consumers from those water-using facilities that could possibly harm the quality and safety of the City of Medicine Hat water distribution System by backflow conditions through cross connections.

The program is intended to prevent delivered water - water that has passed beyond the City's distribution system and into your private plumbing system - from re-entering or backflow into the public water system and being delivered to other consumers. The City of Medicine Hat meets its responsibility by supplying excellent drinking water that is well within the "Recommended Canadian Drinking Water Guidelines" and the "License to Operate", issued by Alberta Environment. The Province of Alberta meets its responsibility by setting high standards for water quality and by monitoring Medicine Hat's water supply system.Owners and occupants have a responsibility too. They must ensure that no cross connections exist on their property as stated in Section 28 of the City of Medicine Hat Water Service Bylaw 2379, the Alberta Safety Codes Act, National Plumbing Code of Canada, and the Canadian Standards Association (CSA) B64.10 "Manual for the Selection, Installation, and Field Testing of Backflow Prevention Devices."