{"id":165,"date":"2006-02-19T08:44:56","date_gmt":"2006-02-19T06:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/?p=165"},"modified":"2006-02-19T08:48:19","modified_gmt":"2006-02-19T06:48:19","slug":"potential-contamination-due-to-cross-connections-and-backflow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/2006\/02\/19\/potential-contamination-due-to-cross-connections-and-backflow\/","title":{"rendered":"Potential Contamination Due to Cross-Connections and Backflow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an answer to a question titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/bb\/viewtopic.php?id=236\"><strong>&#8220;A question about backflow&#8221;<\/strong><\/a> on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/bb\/\">EPANET User-List<\/a> <strong>Elin Warn<\/strong> gave a link to an article by the EPA:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The purpose of this document is to review existing literature, research,and information on the occurrence, magnitude, and nature of the public health risks associated with cross-connections and backflow, from both acute and chronic exposures, and methods for detecting and controlling the occurrence of cross-connections and backflow within distribution systems. More specifically,the goal of<br \/>\nthis document is to review what we know regarding:<br \/>\n(1)causes of contamination through cross-connections;<br \/>\n(2)the magnitude of risk associated with cross-connections and backflow;<br \/>\n(3)costs of backflow contamination incidents;<br \/>\n(4)other problems associated with backflow incidents;<br \/>\n(5)suitable measures for preventing and correcting problems caused by cross-connections and backflow;<br \/>\n(6)possible indicators of a backflow incident;<br \/>\n(7)research opportunities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See the full text <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epa.gov\/safewater\/tcr\/pdf\/ccrwhite.pdf\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an answer to a question titled &#8220;A question about backflow&#8221; on the EPANET User-List Elin Warn gave a link to an article by the EPA: The purpose of this document is to review existing literature, research,and information on the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/2006\/02\/19\/potential-contamination-due-to-cross-connections-and-backflow\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Potential Contamination Due to Cross-Connections and Backflow<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}