A fundamental objective for the Gisborne District Council is to protect the health of our communities through the provision of clean and safe drinking water. This backflow prevention programme will play a pivotal role in ensuring the safety of the drinking water supply by establishing principles to prevent contamination occurring in the reticulated network.

The driver for this project is to ensure that sufficient backflow prevention from every private water connection into the public water supply is in place. The extent of this project is to replace all substandard points of supply with fit for purpose manifolds to each residential dwelling with the reticulated services boundary of Gisborne.

The Gisborne District Council are looking for an experienced and qualified Contractor to progressively install new backflow prevention devices on residential connections to the water supply network.