[New Englander]

Originally Posted by Windguy

Don’t y’all know the back flow preventers are on there for a reason?

My understanding is that if you have a hose connected to the faucet when water pressure drops for something like fire trucks trying to put out a fire, the contaminated water inside the hose will be sucked back into the water supply and not only contaminate your water, but that of your neighbors.

If there’s such a thing, I can see replacing a leaky device with one that doesn’t leak, but just removing it sounds like a bad idea.

Read my original post. I mentioned that the back-flo preventers are Defective.