- Alias
- Maintaining Plumbing After Extended Vacancy
- Applies to
- owner
- Work types
- plumbing
- Instruments
- O. Reg. 243/07
A guide the City of Brampton posts with its plumbing material, explaining water flushing strategies that restore a building's water quality after an extended vacancy and before reopening. It describes how stagnant water loses disinfectant residual and picks up lead and copper, then works through flushing frequency, trap seals, point-of-entry devices, filters and personal protective equipment, with separate routines for small buildings of three floors and large buildings of four or more. Closing sections cover minimum water temperature, communication to returning occupants and building water management plans.
What it covers
- For building owners and operators
- Background
- Using this guide
- General considerations
- Building history of water quality issues
- Personal protective equipment
- Vulnerable populations
- Replacing filters
- Inventory diagrams of building plumbing systems
- Trap seals
- Restrictions on water use
- Point-of-entry devices
- Small buildings
- Large buildings
- Minimum water temperature requirements
- Buildings with reduced occupancy returning to full occupancy
- Unoccupied buildings returning to full occupancy
- Additional water system considerations
- Communication to returning building occupants
- Building water management plans
- Additional resources
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- Publisher
- City of Brampton
- Category
- Guides · plumbing
- Published under
- Projects — the municipality's own heading
- Publisher note
- The guide prints no issuing body; it refers to "the ministry's flushing and sampling for lead webpage" and to O. Reg. 243/07, and the City of Brampton posts it with its plumbing project material.
- Tags
guideplumbingwater-qualityprovincial-document