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backflow ice machine

  • Frostbite from ice maker
  • Scalding from coffee maker
  • Coffee breath
  • Being crushed by a falling icemaker
  • Dropping a full pot of coffee on your foot.
  • Getting your eye poked by an ice cube draining the last drop of lemonade from your glass
  • Someone replacing the Peruvian Organic Dark Roast with Folgers
  • Getting yelled at by the boss for hanging around the break room
  • Brain Freeze
  • Banging your knee on the backflow preventer
Um – Sorry, you meant what hazards are prevented by not having a backflow preventer? Not getting a permit is the only one I can come up with.

Ok, I suppose an abandoned icemaker/coffee maker could get really nasty after a while, or a carelessworker could contaminate the ice resevoir and this might be sucked back into the water supply.
 
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The threat is from "contamination" of the potable water

supplied to these fixtures......The actual "contamination"

can come from a variety of sources......See Section 608

in the `06 IPC.

That "Dr. J" is a deep thinker huh! :cool:

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Any documented cases of the water supply being contaminated? I found some history of ice bins being skanky. Hate to require something at a cost of $200 plus $80/year testing and a high failure rate to keep the coffee out of my water.
 
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JMORRISON,

Typically, not much is going to get reported......That would mean someone might

become a target and a reason to be terminated.

You might try the local health department in your locale for some statistical

data.

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