Gary Swart
In the Trades
Maybe in Northfork everyone still waters their lawns with sprinklers attached to hoses, but some of us use underground automatic systems that are not attached to faucets aka hose bibs. In our case, the water is turn on/off by electrically operated solenoids controlled by a timer. These do not use hose bibs either with or without BFP. For us, we are required to use a BFP that is in our water supply line that will isolate the sprinkler system and prevent contaminate from entering our house supply and/or the city water main. I acknowledge that in the "good old days" we didn't worry about such things, and it's probably true not too many of us died from the affects of contaminated water, but the risk was there and it is still is there. Now I could care less if you want to take the risk and ignore the laws designed to protect you and your family, but I do care that you are will to suggest that others do the same. Finally, FWIW, I have two hose bibs coming from my house water supply and both of them have BFP.