LOVELAND- —On its face, a proposed ordinance requiring installation and annual testing of backflow prevention devices on home and business water systems throughout Loveland seems like an expensive regulatory morass.
But water managers in the city say it could be years before homeowners have to deal with the measure required by a state regulation and designed to protect water supplies from contamination.
Loveland councilors at a study session Tuesday will get a briefing on the draft of the ordinance that water managers wrote with the assistance of an Oregon consultant specializing in writing local codes to match state regulations and designing programs to enforce them.
“We’ve been working on this program for 10 years,” Loveland water treatment manager John McGee said. “It’s taken us a while to get to this point.”
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