Backflow testing in Scugog and Port Perry

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

Scugog is a large rural township with one real urban centre. The properties in the program are concentrated in Port Perry:

• Downtown and waterfront commercial. Queen Street and Water Street restaurants, cafes, retail and offices; the summer trade brings a lot of food service, which means RPZs and after-hours testing.
• Health. Lakeridge Health Port Perry and the medical and dental offices around it are severe hazard, RPZ territory, with quiet-hours slots. See medical and dental.
• Institutional. The township offices, schools, places of worship, the arena and community facilities, care and retirement homes. See the institutional page.
• Plazas and services along Highway 7A and Simcoe Street.
• Agricultural-service and light industrial in and around Port Perry: equipment, supply, contractors. Where they are on Regional water, they are in the program.
• Blackstock and Greenbank have small commercial and institutional buildings on Regional water; the hamlets and farms around them are largely on private wells and outside the by-law.

The rule is Regional

By-law 24-2018 was passed by Durham Regional Council and administered through BSI Online. Scugog does not run its own program and Port Perry’s notices are identical to Oshawa’s. The notice page explains the letter.

Water context

Port Perry, Blackstock and Greenbank are served by Regional groundwater wells (Port Perry has several municipal wells). It is Regional supply and the by-law applies identically. Groundwater is typically harder than lake water, and scale is a common reason devices fail; the Region’s annual water quality report for the Port Perry system gives the measured hardness. Lakeside and farm properties on private wells only are outside the program.

Scheduling in north Durham

Scugog, Uxbridge and Brock are grouped into shared northern days. Port Perry usually anchors the day because it has the most stock:

Situation	What we do
Downtown restaurant	Before open or after close on the northern day
Hospital-area clinic	Early morning before patients
Township, school or church building	Around the building’s calendar
Blackstock or Greenbank property	Folded into the Port Perry day
Due date flexible	Next northern day, shared drive
Due date tight	Fitted, on its own if necessary
Irrigation	Spring start-up northern run

Seasonal Port Perry

The waterfront trade is seasonal, which affects when restaurants can spare the water and when irrigation systems come on. Off-season is the easy time to test a restaurant premise device; spring start-up is when irrigation PVBs on commercial and institutional grounds get tested. If your notice’s due date falls in the busy season, tell us and we find the quietest window.

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 Scugog

Scugog is part of our north Durham run with Uxbridge and Brock. Port Perry has enough commercial and institutional stock that it anchors a northern day: downtown restaurants before open, the hospital-area clinics early, the township and school buildings around their calendars, Blackstock and Greenbank folded in. Flexible dates go on the next northern day; tight dates get fitted.