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Pennsylvania Pressure Gauge Calibration

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Pennsylvania Pressure Gauge Calibration · Updated 2026-11-06

Pressure gauge calibration in Pittsburgh

Pressure gauge calibration is the request you can send for work in Pittsburgh.

Pittsburgh Water requires a calibration certificate for each differential pressure gauge when a tester opens a backflow portal account.

You can send a pressure gauge calibration request for work in Pittsburgh from this page.

A new tester account needs a calibration certificate for each differential pressure gauge or other backflow test equipment.

The device itself is tested every twelve months at a minimum. The page does not say how long the gauge certificate lasts.

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Is the instrument a pressure gauge you need calibrated, rather than a consumer tire gauge, a home plumbing part, or scrap?

Pennsylvania Pressure Gauge Calibration receives this request and replies by email.

Sending this request does not mean a calibration company will call. The request stays with Pennsylvania Pressure Gauge Calibration until one company that does this job is named.

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Pittsburgh Water says the backflow device is tested every twelve months at a minimum, and also every twelve (12) months at a minimum, by an ASSE certified tester.

When a tester creates a portal account, the utility asks for a digital copy of the ASSE certification and a calibration certificate for each backflow test device.

The same page says the account upload includes a calibration certificate for each differential pressure gauge or other backflow test equipment.

The contact address printed on that page is 1200 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15222.

The device is to be tested every twelve months at a minimum. An ASSE Certified Tester must submit the results through our Backflow Test Submission Portal. When creating an account, testers must upload a digital copy of their ASSE Certification and Calibration Certificate for each backflow test device. The backflow prevention device is required to be tested every twelve (12) months, at a minimum, by an ASSE Certified Tester. A certified tester must sign up for an account in our backflow test submission portal. When first signing up for an account, a digital copy of the backflow prevention assembly inspector/tester certification card, certification number, and calibration certificate for each differential pressure gauge or other backflow test equipment will be required. 1200 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15222.

Pittsburgh Water, Backflow Prevention and Cross-Connections

What Pittsburgh Water prints about the test and the gauge certificate.
ItemWords on the Pittsburgh Water page
Backflow deviceTested every twelve months at a minimum
TesterASSE certified tester, through the backflow test submission portal
Account uploadCalibration certificate for each backflow test device
Differential pressure gaugeCalibration certificate for each differential pressure gauge or other backflow test equipment

What was not measured

What was not measured: the Pittsburgh Water page does not state a fee or how many months the gauge certificate itself remains current.

Questions this page can answer

A calibration certificate for each differential pressure gauge or other backflow test equipment, plus the tester certification card and certification number.

Every twelve months at a minimum, and the same page also says every twelve (12) months at a minimum.

Related: Counties and Lancaster.

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