Introduction of Arrow-Breaker Garden Valve: Built-in Vacuum Breaker to Protect Your Drinking Water

Los Angeles, CA, April 16, 2009 --(PR.com)-- Champion-Arrowhead LLC announces the introduction of its new Arrow-Breaker Garden Valve with a built-in vacuum breaker to protect your drinking water. Thread-on vacuum breakers are typically used in standard garden valves to protect against backflow or backsiphonage. Backsiphonage is caused by a sudden drop in water pressure within the water pipes. The drop in water pressure can be caused by a sudden spike in use of water within a home, a broken water main, a fire nearby where the Fire Department is using large quantities of water, or simply by opening a fire hydrant nearby to test it. Backsiphonage is instantaneous and short lived. Since water lines for the outside of a house are directly connected to the water lines inside the house, anything around a garden hose connected to a garden valve can get sucked into the water pipes to contaminate the drinking water.

The new Arrow-Breaker Garden Valve with the built-in vacuum breaker protects against backflow and allows more forward flow of water than a standard garden valve. More importantly, the new Arrow-Breaker Garden Valve with a built-in vacuum breaker is priced 30% less than a standard garden valve and a thread-on vacuum breaker.

The Arrow-Breaker Garden Valve also features nested inlet threads so that one garden valve can accommodate either a 1⁄2” or a 3⁄4” pipe. Finally, the new leak-proof O-ring bonnet included in the new Arrow-Breaker Garden Valve ensures that it will never leak by eliminating the packing nut that requires periodic tightening.

About Champion-Arrowhead LLC. The company consists of two of the best known brand names in the plumbing and irrigation industries. Champion-Arrowhead LLC was formed by Champion Irrigation LLC acquiring Arrowhead Brass Products LLC in 2006, making it one of the last US manufacturers of innovative and high quality brass products for the plumbing and irrigation industries. Champion Irrigation, founded in 1936 and Arrowhead Brass Products, founded in 1937 have over 140 years of experience and brand recognition. The company has several innovative new products including Arrow-Breaker, a patented technology, which is available in all connections and sizes for hose bibbs and Frost Free hydrants. A complete selection of the company's products can be seen at www.championarrowhead.com.

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