Choose the rated air-gap arrangement and preserve its inlet clearance, overflow capacity and separation.
An air gap interrupts the route from receiving water back into the supply. The physical break does not depend on a check valve closing against a seat. That is useful protection, but it still depends on the correct arrangement being installed and maintained.
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