Safe Water Commission

The Safe Water Commission offers a technology and service solution called Safe Water Commission that aims to protect drinking water through programs like Smart Irrigation and Backflow Testing. According to the vendor, this product is designed to manage backflow testing and compliance with state regulations, track backflows and certified backflow testers, inform and educate the public, and provide reporting on backflow devices. It is targeted at municipalities, water purveyors, property owners, and backflow testers in various professions and industries, including water utilities, plumbing contractors, property management companies, municipal governments, and environmental health departments.

Key Features

Residential Smart Irrigation Program for Cities: The vendor claims that this feature includes a partnership with Twin City metro water purveyors to save millions of gallons of irrigation water annually. It offers professional installation of a weather-based Smart controller, thorough evaluation of the irrigation system with a "Simple Yard Audit," and the replacement of old controllers with a Hunter Industries HydrawiseTM SMART weather-based controller.

Backflow Testing: The Safe Water Commission facilitates the management of backflow testing programs for water purveyors. It provides search tools to locate state-certified testing contractors and ensures annual testing of backflow devices to protect drinking water. It also manages backflow device testing results and expiration timeframes and offers search tools for property owners to check the status of their backflow devices.

Inspector Device Search: According to the vendor, this feature allows users to search the Safe Water Commission database to identify tested backflow devices at a given address. By entering the address, users can view a report of devices at that location.

Tester Registration: The product provides a registration platform for certified backflow device testers. Testers can submit test reports to contracted cities, validate their certification number, and access an active database of tested devices and test expiration timeframes.

Plumbing Company Services: This feature offers cloud-based management software specifically designed for plumbing companies. It allows users to view testing activity, test results, and customer information. According to the vendor, it simplifies the management of backflow testers and addresses other plumbing company needs.

Water Purveyor Information Request: Users can submit a form to request information about Safe Water Commission services. They will then be contacted by a representative from the Safe Water Commission to discuss how the services can benefit their organization.

Water Purveyor Data Management with Safe Water Commission: This feature provides a solution to help cities manage backflow testing and compliance. It offers United States Postal Service validated addresses with additional attributes, automated email/postal mail reminders for testing, an authoritative database of cross-connection control assemblies, certification validation of testers with compliance authorities, and a wizard-driven backflow test entry.

Protection of Water Supply: According to the vendor, this feature allows users to track backflows and their locations, as well as track certified backflow testers. It also focuses on informing and educating the public and provides reporting on passed, failed, and untested devices.

Reduced Liability: The product offers paperless forms with a handheld application for simple and quick testing. The vendor claims that it can be used in all cities in MN and allows users to keep track of all their clients' tests, with the ability to print if necessary for some cities.

Compliance with State Regulation: This feature provides an easy-to-use portal for finding contractors, education, and automated reminders for testing, as well as a backflow expiration lookup.