Resources for Water Purveyors

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Headquartered in New York, we exist to assist water purveyors and other stakeholders in protecting the water supply from the dangers of backsiphonage and backpressure, through providing resources that allow the efficient and effective execution of backflow assembly field testing, whether your own staff or developing a local workforce, assisting the industry at large to develop more stringent enforcement of regulations regarding backflow installation and testing on both public and private water systems.

Designed to assist water purveyors in developing a local workforce that are not related to them directly. Through our subsidiary, Kruger Training Academy, we can develop a training program tailored for your needs and do the training at your facility. We handle all advertising and scheduling. Also we provide easy to follow steps to create an efficient and effective process for third party testers and companies to execute this work. This is the simplest resource we provide, we just have a hosting arrangement where you can host a backflow course with either our single party exam, proctor applicable third party exams, or set up for a state exam. Also the students attend the class at your facility and will be familiar with your processes and expectations.

We have more info on our website - www.krugerstraining.academy/host

Depending on State Regulations, often as a purveyor you can self perform tests on your systems, whether only after giving customers warnings or just testing all preventers on your systems, and charging the customer for this service. If you need to have bulk training for your workforce, for example if you recently started enforcing backflow testing standards, or recently acquired new areas through privatization. We are all about efficient and prompt execution, doing private and public courses in 23 states over the last decade. Our program is based on the USC 10th Edition and we can offer either our single party exam, proctor applicable third party exams, or set up for a state exam.

We have more info on our website - www.krugerstraining.academy/private

Through the years, we have developed a very simple, durable, easy to use testing kit called the Kruger Instruments TK-2, compliant with ASSE 1064-2020 regulations, and we offer annual re-calibrations of the testing equipment, also compliant with the ASSE standard. You can order these as a stand alone item, or package it with training for volume discounts. We also offer a 12 month manufacturer's warranty for any defects, The durability and practicality of the kit is top of the industry, very rarely do they break from misuse or freezing due to the balanced nature of the components, all metal body and valves, and design implications of using a 2 valve kit with a small diaphragm body instead of larger diaphragm body 5 or 3 valve arrangements.

We have more info on our website - www.krugerinstruments.com

A new offering, we can schedule a consultation to advise water purveyors on the best way to manage backflow testing and then set up one of our other offerings. Often purveyors find it more efficient and effective to have third party backflow testing management companies ( Backflow Solutions, National Water Specialties, HydroCorp, among many other examples ) which usually works best since it is a lot of paperwork and online processes are often difficult and expensive for public entities to self perform. Most management companies do not offer training or equipment, although some do. We try to coordinate what will work best for each case depending on the size of the public water system and regional location, often it becomes a series of surveys and building by building tracking, requiring existing buildings to be analyzed for cross connections and requiring backflow preventers to be installed or tested if they already exist. For new installs, you generally need licensed contractors and design firms to properly do the installs, it can become a very cumbersome process which we can help you plan and execute.

Reach out to schedule a consultation at resources@kpr.biz - initial phone consultations are free, pricing for a full printed package of what we recommend that you do on your system comes with a fee, often this can be packaged with training and equipment for your workforce for volume discounts.

We provide bulk testing services with line item test, repair, and replacement unit costs. With access to special deals with backflow repair kits and backflow assembly distributors, as well as all in house tester certification, test kits, test kit calibrations, and well established integrity driven guidelines, we can help water purveyors turn backflow testing into an annual fixed cost, with easily estimable repair and replacement durations to be expected annually, standardized testing procedures, coordinating with locally licensed Plumbing or Fire Sprinkler contractors where necessary.

Our competitive advantage is that we utilize USC 10th Edition and derivative testing procedures with diagnostics, so that we can test a valve either single hose or multi hose style, utilizing bleed off tee arrangements and short clear hoses, minimizing repairs and replacements required since it is possible to use diagnostics instead of a full replacement in the event of shutoff leaks. Also, since we have testers, local certification programs, test kits, test kit calibrations, etc., all done in house, often the pricing can be much more competitive, especially with larger contracts.

Reach out to schedule a consultation at resources@kpr.biz - just list exactly what you are looking for as far as quantity and location and we can send a price for this work. Generally looking for 20 absolute minimum number of valves all in the same county or relatively nearby to each other for bulk testing.