Backflow testing in Brock Township

Brock’s building stock, from a backflow point of view

Brock Township is agricultural country on the east shore of Lake Simcoe with three urban centres, and the township itself describes agriculture as one of its leading industries alongside the commercial and industrial businesses in those centres. The properties in the program are in and around the three towns:

• Beaverton. The largest of the three, on the lake: downtown restaurants and retail, the harbour, institutional buildings, and small multi-unit rentals.
• Cannington. A commercial core, schools, places of worship, community facilities and agricultural-service businesses.
• Sunderland. Similar: a small core, institutional buildings, and farm-service businesses.
• Agricultural-service businesses in all three: equipment dealers, feed and supply, contractors’ yards, on Regional water. Often more than one device, and severe hazard on the process side.
• Farms and lakeshore properties on private wells only are outside the by-law.

The rule is Regional

By-law 24-2018 was passed by Durham Regional Council and administered through BSI Online. Brock does not run its own program, and a Beaverton notice is identical to a Pickering notice. The notice page explains the letter; the service page explains the test.

Water context

Brock is the one Durham municipality with all three of the Region’s source types in play: Beaverton is served by the Region’s Lake Simcoe water supply plant, while Cannington and Sunderland are served by Regional groundwater wells. All of it is Regional supply under the by-law. Groundwater is typically harder than lake water and scale is a common reason devices fail; the Region publishes annual water quality reports for each system. Farms and lakeshore properties on private wells only are outside the program; a property with a well and a Regional connection is inside it, with the well as an auxiliary supply.

Scheduling in the far north of the Region

Brock is the longest drive from anywhere else in Durham, so it is never a single-site trip if we can help it. Northern days take in Beaverton, Cannington and Sunderland together, often with Port Perry or Uxbridge on the way, and the drive is shared across every property tested that day. That is what keeps a Brock price close to a lakeshore price.

Situation	What we do
Due date flexible by a week or two	Next northern day; price reflects the shared drive
Due date tight	Fitted, on its own if necessary
Several properties across the three towns	One route, one day
Restaurant	Before open or after close on the northern day
School, church, arena, care home	Around the building’s calendar
Agricultural-service site with several devices	One visit, premise device between shifts, zone devices line by line
Irrigation	Spring start-up northern run

What it costs and what you get

Per device, per property, $25 BSI filing fee included, report submitted within the by-law’s 28-day window, tag, report copy for the five-year file, filing confirmation, and a reminder 30 days before next year. Details on the cost page.

Scheduling in Brock

Brock is the longest drive in the Region, so it is always grouped: a northern day that takes in Beaverton, Cannington and Sunderland together, often with Port Perry or Uxbridge on the way. Flexible dates go on the next northern day and the drive is shared across every property on it; tight dates get fitted. Restaurants before open or after close; institutional buildings around their calendars.