Backflow Prevention Assembly Tester Training - GA With Questions and Answers.
What is an actual cross connection? - ANSWER Any arrangement
of pipes,
... [Show More] fittings, or devices that connects a potable water supply
directly to a non-potable source at all times
What is an Air Gap? - ANSWER The unobstructed vertical distance
through the free atmosphere between the lowest opening from any
pipe or outlet supplying water to a tank, plumbing fixture, or other
container, and the overflow rim of that container
What does AVB stand for? - ANSWER Atmospheric Vacuum
Breaker
What is an Atmospheric Vacuum Breaker? - ANSWER A
mechanical device consisting of a float check valve and an air-inlet
port designed to prevent backsiphonage
What is an auxiliary supply? - ANSWER Any water source or
system, other than the potable water supply, that may be available in
the building or premises
What is backflow? - ANSWER A hydraulic condition, caused by
difference in pressures, in which non-potable water or other fluids
flow into a potable water system
What is backpressure? - ANSWER A backflow condition in which a
pump, elevated tank, boiler, 0r other means results in a downstream
pressure greater than the supply pressure
What is backsiphange? - ANSWER A backflow condition in which
the pressure in the distribution system is less than atmospheric
pressure (sub-atmospheric)
What is a bypass? - ANSWER In cross-connection control, any
pipe arrangement that passes water around a protective device,
Backflow Prevention Assembly Tester Training - GA
With Questions and Answers
casing it to be ineffective
What is a carrier? - ANSWER A human or animal that carries
disease germs and can pass them to another person or animal
without getting the disease itself
What is the purpose of a check valve? - ANSWER To allow flow in
only one direction
What is a cross connection? - ANSWER Any arrangement of pipes,
fittings, fixtures, or devices that connects a non-potable system to a
potable water system
What does DCVA stand for? - ANSWER Double Check Valve
Assembly
What is a DCVA? - ANSWER A testable mechanical device
consisting of two independently operating, spring-loaded check
valves
What is feed water? - ANSWER Water that is added to a
commercial or industrial system and is subsequently used by the
system, such as water that is fed to a boiler to produce steam
What is an incubation period for a disease? - ANSWER The time
period that elapses between the time a person is exposed to some
disease and the time that person shows the first sign or symptom of
the disease
What is an overflow level? - ANSWER The maximum height that
water or liquid will rise in a receptacle before it flows over the rim
What is a potable water source? - ANSWER Water that is
biologically, chemically, and radiologically safe to drink
What is a potential cross connection? - ANSWER Any arrangement
of pipes, fittings, or devices that indirectly connects a potable water
supply to a non-potable water source
What does PVB stand for? - ANSWER Pressure Vacuum Breaker . [Show Less]