Backflow Testing in Alabama
Backflow Testing across Alabama: the 398 ZIP codes and 243 cities we route calls in, and who licenses plumbers in the state.
Free to homeowners in Alabama — the contractor pays us for the introduction, you never do.
Who has to test
Our backflow testing coverage in Alabama runs to 398 ZIP codes in 243 cities. In a state that mixes large systems with small ones, a testing duty that is routine on one side of a county line can be unknown on the other, and the deadline a premises is held to is whichever its own water supplier sets.
Source: coverage area as published by our call partner; place and county names from the US Census Bureau.
We route backflow testing calls in 398 ZIP codes across 243 Alabama cities, in 38 counties.
What this site is
CrossConnect is a referral service, not a contractor. We connect property owners and managers with independent contractors. Backflow assembly testing is normally restricted to testers holding a specific certification and using calibrated equipment, and the report usually has to reach your water purveyor — ask to see the certification and ask who files the report. We carry out no testing, we certify nobody, we do not set prices, and we never charge callers anything. Nothing here selects a device for any installation or states that any assembly is passing.Checking a credential in Alabama
Alabama licenses are issued by the Alabama Plumbers and Gas Fitters Examining Board, which publishes a public search you can use before work begins.
18 of the 37 Alabama counties we cover, from the top of the alphabet
- Baldwin County 24 ZIP codes
Daphne, Fairhope, Foley, Gulf Shores, Bay Minette, Bon Secour, Elberta, Lillian, Loxley, Magnolia Springs, Montrose, Orange Beach, Perdido, Point Clear and 6 more - Bibb County 6 ZIP codes
Brent, Brierfield, Centreville, Green Pond, West Blocton, Woodstock - Blount County 8 ZIP codes
Allgood, Blountsville, Cleveland, Hayden, Locust Fork, Oneonta, Remlap, Trafford - Calhoun County 13 ZIP codes
Anniston, Alexandria, Eastaboga, Jacksonville, Ohatchee, Oxford, Piedmont, Weaver, Wellington - Chambers County 6 ZIP codes
Valley, Cusseta, Lafayette, Lanett, Waverly - Cherokee County 1 ZIP code
Centre - Chilton County 5 ZIP codes
Clanton, Jemison, Thorsby, Verbena - Clay County 2 ZIP codes
Ashland, Lineville - Cleburne County 5 ZIP codes
Delta, Fruithurst, Heflin, Muscadine, Ranburne - Colbert County 5 ZIP codes
Cherokee, Leighton, Muscle Shoals, Sheffield, Tuscumbia - Cullman County 11 ZIP codes
Cullman, Baileyton, Bremen, Crane Hill, Hanceville, Holly Pond, Logan, Vinemont - DeKalb County 1 ZIP code
Ider - Dekalb County 2 ZIP codes
Henagar, Valley Head - Escambia County 1 ZIP code
Atmore - Etowah County 11 ZIP codes
Gadsden, Boaz, Altoona, Attalla, Gallant, Rainbow City - Fayette County 1 ZIP code
Berry - Franklin County 6 ZIP codes
Russellville, Hodges, Phil Campbell, Red Bay, Spruce Pine - Greene County 1 ZIP code
Knoxville
19 more Alabama counties are inside the coverage area and are not listed here. If your ZIP code is in Alabama, the call reaches a contractor.
What that coverage looks like
The 38 counties in our Alabama footprint are served by many separate water suppliers, and each one decides which premises must test and how often. Jefferson County, with 88 covered ZIP codes, is the largest single block of them; Birmingham alone holds 62.
How a backflow testing job goes
A backflow test is a scheduled job that ends in a document. The assembly is isolated, the differential across it is measured, the result is written down, and the report goes to whoever requires it. A failed test means a repair or a rebuild and then a re-test; it does not mean the premises closes that day.
What the call asks about backflow testing
- What kind of premises it is and what is connected to the supply — irrigation, a boiler, a fire line, a commercial kitchen.
- Who is asking for the test: a water supplier, a health department, or a landlord.
- Whether there is an existing assembly with a serial number on it, and when it was last tested.
Every Alabama city we route in
37 cities, ordered by the share of buildings with twenty or more units. Containment assemblies are required building by building, and that is where the buildings are. Each page carries that city’s own numbers and the ZIP codes we route there.
- Orange Beach 57%
- Gulf Shores 28%
- Tuscaloosa 15%
- Auburn 11%
- Huntsville 10%
- Birmingham 10%
- Valley 9%
- Fultondale 8%
- Mobile 7%
- Saraland 6%
- Sheffield 6%
- Madison 5%
- Florence 5%
- Robertsdale 5%
- Cottondale 5%
- Fairfield 4%
- Moody 4%
- Rainbow City 4%
- Daphne 4%
- Anniston 4%
- Northport 3%
- Opelika 3%
- Smiths Station 3%
- Jacksonville 3%
- Lanett 3%
- Cullman 3%
- Gadsden 3%
- Bessemer 2%
- Muscle Shoals 2%
- McCalla 2%
- Phenix City 2%
- Gardendale 2%
- Russellville 2%
- Oneonta 2%
- Theodore 2%
- Sylacauga 2%
- Roanoke 2%
Before you call
A test is a scheduled job with a report at the end of it, not a repair. What the report has to show, and who it goes to, are on the pages above.
