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Beloeil has a particularity few owners know about: backwater valves have been mandatory there since 1961. This is not a recent rule; it is a requirement more than sixty years old.
The practical consequence: in a Beloeil home the question is almost never “do I need one?” but “where is mine, and does it still work?”. A thirty-year-old valve whose flap is jammed with debris protects exactly as much as no valve at all.
The City also specifies which types are allowed — and which one is not.
Plomberie Boucherville does not have an office in Beloeil. We travel there from Boucherville.
Worth knowing in Beloeil
Mandatory since 1961
The City states it plainly: “Since 1961 in Beloeil, it is mandatory to equip your home with a backwater valve.” It is one of the oldest requirements of its kind on the South Shore, which means many of the devices in place are well past the age at which anyone last checked them.
Source: Ville de Beloeil — Pluies intenses et refoulement d’égoutSqueeze-in valves are prohibited
Three valve types are accepted — normally open, normally closed and insertion — but the City specifies that “the use of a ‘squeeze-in’ compression-type backwater valve is not permitted”. That is precisely the type found in improvised installations.
Source: Ville de Beloeil — Pluies intenses et refoulement d’égoutIt must remain accessible at all times
Maintenance falls to the owner: “Make sure it is accessible at all times and remove any debris that could prevent it from closing properly.” A valve buried in a slab or sealed behind basement finishing cannot be maintained — and that is often what gets discovered after the damage.
Source: Ville de Beloeil — Pluies intenses et refoulement d’égoutWastewater travels to Mont-Saint-Hilaire
Beloeil does not treat its wastewater alone: together with McMasterville, Mont-Saint-Hilaire and Otterburn Park it belongs to the Régie d’assainissement des eaux usées de la Vallée du Richelieu, whose plant is on rue Brunet in Mont-Saint-Hilaire. Sixteen pumping stations on both banks of the Richelieu carry the water there.
Source: RAEVR — Infrastructures de collecte et de transport
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