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Colorado Springs utility backflow testing requirements
Colorado Springs Utilities is a strong Colorado page because it shows how the utility actually runs the testing workflow: portal registration, certification uploads, five-day test entry, and survey-first rules.
Fast answer
Who, when, and what device?
Colorado Springs Utilities requires customers to hire a backflow tester for the annual compliance test and expects test results to be entered within five days through SwiftComply.
- Who is affected
- Customers and testers working on assemblies that Colorado Springs Utilities has already surveyed into the program, including external and irrigation assemblies.
- Covered devices
- Backflow prevention assemblies · External assemblies · Irrigation assemblies · Surveyed utility assemblies
- Risk if missed
- Colorado Springs Utilities will not accept a test on a newly installed assembly until the backflow team has surveyed it, and old results are expected to be entered promptly through the portal.
What to do now
Choose the task on your notice
The official rule stays on this record; national guidance explains the task.
Exact workflow
Follow the local sequence
- 01
Register the tester and current certification in SwiftComply.
- 02
Confirm the assembly is already surveyed by Colorado Springs Utilities.
- 03
Perform the annual compliance test.
- 04
Enter the result within five days and flag any record errors or replacements through the utility.
Tester gate
Who can produce an accepted result?
Certification information, Test-kit information
Submission route
Where the result goes
Colorado Springs Utilities SwiftComply workflow
Submission deadline: within 5 days after testing
Report packet: Tester certification, Test-kit information, Surveyed assembly record, Record correction or replacement notes when needed
Tester credentials: Certification information, Test-kit information
Look for the SwiftComply or C3Swift account, device, address, or notice record.
Report acceptance depends on using the named portal or online submission path; keep proof that the report was submitted.
- Colorado Springs Utilities backflow professionals portal tester portal guidance
- Colorado Springs Utilities rules and regulations rules and tariff document
Local detail
Property, device, and enforcement notes
Open the parts that match the property and system. These details stay subordinate to the fast workflow above.
Program and failure notes
- Colorado Springs uses a five-day result-entry expectation.
- New assemblies must be surveyed before tests are accepted.
- The tester portal is mandatory for practical compliance.
- Certified testers must register and upload certification and test-kit information.
- Test results should be entered within five days of testing.
- A newly installed assembly must be surveyed by the utility before a test can be accepted.
Residential notes
- Colorado Springs is less residential-marketing heavy than Tampa or Broward, but any surveyed assembly still lives inside the same portal-driven workflow.
- Residential intent mostly shows up through external or irrigation assembly cases rather than generic homeowner education.
Commercial notes
- This is a strong contractor and managed-property utility because the portal rules are explicit.
- The survey-first rule matters operationally for new installations and replacements.
Irrigation
Colorado Springs publishes a separate external and irrigation assembly form, which makes irrigation-specific intent worth supporting.
- External and irrigation assemblies have a distinct form path.
- Portal submission rules still apply.
- Survey-first discipline matters before the utility will accept a test for a new assembly.
Cost and fee context
Testing is market-priced, but the portal registration and survey-first rule create real workflow cost.
Repair and retest costs vary depending on whether the assembly record is already accurate in the utility system.
The value is in understanding the portal and survey gate, not in a public price schedule.
Evidence ledger
Official sources
Colorado Springs is useful because it exposes the contractor-facing side of the compliance loop: SwiftComply registration, certification uploads, five-day entry timing, and survey-first rules for new assemblies.
BackflowVerdict summarizes these records; the governing entity remains the authority.
Open official program page- 01Colorado Springs Utilities backflow professionalsofficial portal guidanceOpen source ↗
- 02Colorado Springs Utilities rules and regulationsofficial rules pdfOpen source ↗
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