Coronado's water comes in through a shared system that's built so flow runs toward the properties and never back. Backflow preventers sit at the connection points, designed to stop a pressure drop or main issue from pulling anything from the property side, irrigation water, pool equipment lines, commercial byproduct, backward into the supply the whole island drinks from. They're small devices with an important job.
Coronado's businesses see the most of it. The restaurants along Orange, the hotels, the multi unit buildings, properties with fire systems, many have backflow assemblies tested on a schedule. An assembly that fails its test or shows its age needs a licensed repair and a retest.
The work gets performed by or under a licensed contractor, testing, repair, and replacement of assemblies that have served their time, handled with the discretion businesses appreciate and kept as low key as possible, with the device restored and retested. Coronado shares one water system, and keeping your device tested and working is part of protecting it.